What happened to GA?

Focus your roster is a hard concept for those of us trying to be better in TBs and those who started before TW was a thing. No where in the game did it say "Do not build up heroes" that isnt the point of the game. The point is for the Devs to make money and have those of us losing think we need to build up and get Malak with money.

I'm one of them. I started before TB and TW. I joined a good guild that helped guide me on what to focus on. Now I am always top 5 in pvp and ship arenas. Did it come without cost? No, I put up some money but it's worth it for me.

All my previous match ups have been crap for me. Why can't we just forget about GACs and return to normal GAs with a normal matchmaking system.
I don't care if the current matchmaking only filters the top 80 toons or whatever, the difference in GP allows for more toons to fall back on in case of failure.

"MagicMatthews99;c-1922378" wrote:
All my previous match ups have been crap for me. Why can't we just forget about GACs and return to normal GAs with a normal matchmaking system.
I don't care if the current matchmaking only filters the top 80 toons or whatever, the difference in GP allows for more toons to fall back on in case of failure.

You can. No-one is making you do GAC. You are free to forget about GACs altogether, but just because the matchmaking worked for you previously and doesn’t now, seems a pretty poor reason to stop everyone else having a crack. Don’t like it, don’t play it :-)

I’ve won my last two championships, and my current GP is 4.03 million. Given that, I would say that the matchmaking is better, because they have been close matches for the most part. I have the edge because my Padme, Grevious, and Geos are better than my opponents’ and I am usually pretty good at examining opponents rosters and setting good defenses. I’m saying all of this to show that I am not winning because of unfair matchmaking. I’ve beaten several people with DRs, and I don’t have one. I like the matchmaking as it is

Its amazing how some folks think "what can cg do to help me win?" instead of "what can i do to help me win?" if your losing becaus you dont have a team and someone else does thats how it should rightfully be. If you want even matchmaking you should build teams even to your contemporaries. So many are quick to blame matchmaking rather than except responsibility for their decisions.

In my opinion, matchmaking has gotten worse. Before when it was based on gp, most losses could be because you did not farm the right toons or what not. That is a player problem not a matchmaking one.

But now, I'm frequently matched against those that have all the meta toons (that part is fine since I have all of them except malak and if I lose due to not getting malak, that's on me) and have 500k+ gp than I do. I'm at 3.9 mil gp so 500k may not seem like a lot but it is the difference in getting an opponent that has enough g12 or g13s to place maxed teams on defense and still have max teams left for offense while i have to dip into my g9, 10, or 11 characters.

And that is winnable when you get an inept opponent that has non meta teams but when they have all the meta teams and twice the # of g12 and g13 and 500k more gp, it isnot a close match up.

And from what I've seen, there is little you can do to get better matches. When it was based on gp, you could at least build a competitive roster going forward and it should eventually get better. And if you didn't have meta toons you could farm them.

But with the new matchmaking, if you have a lean roster and you focus on good toons, you likely will just continue to be matched with those that have more gp to male up for their shortcomings. I suppose i could bloat my roster and hope that results in more even matchmaking but that hardly seems like a solution.

"Tiig;c-1922413" wrote:

"MagicMatthews99;c-1922378" wrote:
All my previous match ups have been crap for me. Why can't we just forget about GACs and return to normal GAs with a normal matchmaking system.
I don't care if the current matchmaking only filters the top 80 toons or whatever, the difference in GP allows for more toons to fall back on in case of failure.

You can. No-one is making you do GAC. You are free to forget about GACs altogether, but just because the matchmaking worked for you previously and doesn’t now, seems a pretty poor reason to stop everyone else having a crack. Don’t like it, don’t play it :-)

It seems that we'd have much less complaints about matchmaking if they implemented a system that actually made sense; like a system previously employed for the non-crappy GA events.

"Gth;c-1922106" wrote:
The way I look at it is an efficient player should have an matchup advantage as they made smarter choices with toons, gear, mods.

You do this by matching them up with the same gp.

If you matchup players with only top 60/80, you’re going to create matchup players with people who have way bigger rosters.
That’s a unfair matchup advantage the developers are giving the larger rosters and it makes a big difference imo.

Matchup players with the same gp and let the rankings sort it out. I like playing against people at my level or close to it. I don’t like being matched against 5+ mil accounts as I’m 4.5.

I have little interest in gac now. It sucks.

I could not have said it better myself! I was ready to leave the game because of this exact scenario, but have been assured that CG will be changing the matchmaking system going forward. TBD whether that's actually the case or not...

I have to say, for now my matches where all quite even.
I didn't win all, but at least i could have a shot at all of them, Wins are then decided on efficiency, it feels fair to me.