TW matchmaking [MERGE]

I think a bigger problem is how it interacts with tb. Tb encouraged us to farm and level trash toons to get stars. Now all the trash we have counts for our active gp even if our effective gp (that is the gp of the toons that meet the 6k requirement & can actually do offense/defense) is significantly lower.

In that case a 25 v 50 can be favorable to the 50 who can zerg rush their opponents who might have slightly higher teams but barring a top 20 arena team are still likely killable if you throw enough bodies at them.

Point being matchmaker needs an overhaul to take into acount more factors than active gp.

Our 1st TW we seemed to be matched up pretty good with our opponent, but this time we had 1 of our guild members look up our competitions GP and it is 6 million higher than ours! That’s a huge difference and it is showing on this TW. I know that it is too hard to get both sides exact, but can you at least make sure that there is only a difference of 1 million or less?

Territory wars is showing us how our guild matches up against the rest of game. I think there are some "broken" mechanics but a lot of it comes down to strategy. The guild we are currently facing has a lot of zBarris teams. They put them all on the first two territories and we have yet to pass through one. Kudos to them. Lesson learned for us.

"JDIII;d-147516" wrote:
Our 1st TW we seemed to be matched up pretty good with our opponent, but this time we had 1 of our guild members look up our competitions GP and it is 6 million higher than ours! That’s a huge difference and it is showing on this TW. I know that it is too hard to get both sides exact, but can you at least make sure that there is only a difference of 1 million or less?

Are you using swgoh.cc to judge power? If so, we noticed that our current opponent is drastically lower power there, but because a few of their players don't have an account.

He looked it up using guild search it looks like. The screenshot of it was put on our Line App

Agreed. Match making is currently just dumb. A little more effort to make better matches would be appreciated. One easy fix would be to match guilds whose paywall toon markets are in the same band of timezones as outlined by guild reset time.

We were definitely unbalanced this TW against our opponent....we faced over 10 90k+ defenses and we had none....we face numerous 300k+ ships and we had very few on defense. Somehow though we just pulled it out and caused the other team to finish in a tie with us for 2nd HAHA! Winning! Though I do think we should both get 1st place loot.

"JDIII;d-147516" wrote:
Our 1st TW we seemed to be matched up pretty good with our opponent, but this time we had 1 of our guild members look up our competitions GP and it is 6 million higher than ours! That’s a huge difference and it is showing on this TW. I know that it is too hard to get both sides exact, but can you at least make sure that there is only a difference of 1 million or less?

Honestly even a 1 million +/- won't help. It needs to be based on g12/11/10 toon quantity (or gp based solely on those toons). My guilds first match was within the +/- 1 million but they could field multiple top 20 g12 arena teams when we don't have anyone with a top 20 arena team. Needless to say they easily won.

With TB explicitly requiring gp inflation through the * and leveling of trash toons, gp is a very poor metric on which to base a guilds effective pvp power.

As it currently is the only guilds that will get regular good match ups are the ones that can 45/45 lstb already and have multiple g12 teams. Casual or small guilds still working to 45/45 lstb have to choose between inflating their gp with the trash toons needed for platoons & general gp inflation for deployments or focus on gearing up existing teams to g11/12 for tw (so lower gp but comprised mostly of powerful toons). You can't realitically do both

We are seeing players on that guilds team with all the new Nightsister maxed out, shore troopers and death troopers maxed out, 7* Thrawn ships and of course all the meta teams. It is very unbalanced and this TW was horrible.

It's based on how many actually signed on for the war. We went up against a team with 9m more GP and a full roster, we still killed them.