TW Sandbagging issue
the TW matchmaking is a problem. a lot of guilds exploits this matchmaking, sandbagging, going with less players, and enjoy easier fights. it shouldn't happen. I'm not sure if you are now realizing t...
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"Kudlaty;c-2115478" wrote:
It’s true that in many cases sandbagging may be unintentional for many reasons (holidays, life, mercs and so on) but intentional or not it simply destroys matchmaking for highest GP tier in it’s current state. Still, I would love to see how many top tier guilds would allow mercs/guild hoping during TW if it would not give them any advantage... It’s easy to say we don’t do it on purpose and we don’t care about the advantage when we know we will have it ;) It seems that the simplest and most fair solution is to include participation in matchmaking but I don’t know if I will live long enough to see it ;) In the end it is what it is, I know that and I accept that I can’t change it. Only thing that is bugging me are people that claim that they don’t care about it but still (intentionally or not) welcome the advantage...
I agree with you that yes, sandbagging is usually unintentional (i’ve missed TW last week by accident myself), and yes, sandbagging gives an advantage. But you also have to note that there are going to be coding and matchmaking limitation. By including participation as second limiting factor, we potentially have an issue of a guild that by chance, dropped 10 members cause they have a newborn/got married/took a break/etc, and absolutely no other guilds with a similar gp to matchmake with. Then in this case, what should the code do? Prioritise GP over participation? Or participation over GP?
To illustrate this, lets say a 300M guild registered at 40/50 with 240m. No other guilds are in the range of 38-42/50 and 235/245m. The next nearest are:
1. 44/50 239m
2. 41/50 228m
3. 42/50 256m
Whichever of the above options get matched places the someone at a disadvantage. Also note that since matching 2 guilds removes them from the remaining matchmaking pool, there’s a snowballing effect, where basically all “sandbagged” guilds are matched against each other with less than ideal results until finally the pool is reduced to the 50/50 signups. It becomes very iffy, and whatever the devs prioritise will be met with hate anger and frustration from the playerbase.
