My 11 year old sons newer 1.4million gp account with 28 relic characters and no galactic legends, late game journey characters, no conquest characters is matched up agains an 8m+gp account with 125 relic characters, 4 galactic legends, multiple conquest characters and journey characters. There is no realistic way he can even be competitive, unless the opponent does nothing. How is this even fair?
Reason is alien to you because you keep clinging to rationally invalid premises without the wit to grasp why they don't follow, and yes, we know that you, sorry "HE" don't think you can win, boo hoo.
Reason is alien to you because you live in a world constructed entirely of rationally bankrupt notions.
Again, your claim that he can't win is based on you thinking he can't win. Listing the reasons that you think he can't win doesn't change that.
Now run off back to your bridge, there's a window that needs licking.
As for the match-up, I’m sorry you and your son have to go through that, it is pretty unfortunate. I’ve actually inquired about a similar match-up months ago. Hopefully the opponent wasn’t active. I’ve had pretty terrible matchups as well but managed to win via the 10 banner bonus for attacking, because of the opponent wasn’t active. Then again I’ve had opponents who were active and lost but it helped because the next player I was against was inactive, weaker, or similar strength! Good luck and may the force be with you!
Maybe CG could incorporate a toggle of “show activity score?” and players have the choice of seeing it or not.
If the mechanisms by which fairly important things are determined are hidden from players then players can't adapt their gameplay to try and improve their chances and/or results.
You either haven't read or understood the mechanic, I suggested. There's no adapting necessary. You still play vs a player of the same Skill Rating, whatever. So you have exactly the same chance of winning as you did before. This mechanic would pair you with players with a similar engagement level. This wouldn't lead to more wins/losses, but matches that are more engaging due to players with a similar outlook being paired together. E.g. players with a high GP for the league that rarely play, would have a low activity score and be paired with other players with high GPs that rarely played.
If you actually cared enough to adapt in GAC, you'd have the highest activity rating anyway.
As I said though, the only reason to hide it would be to prevent confusion. E.g. players believing it is important to match making. So, if it being visible would make it more palatable.....then yeah sure. In my mind, it doesn't matter either way.
Edit: Actually, I'm going to back-track on what I have said here. I've thought about it, and I can see scenarios where your point is valid.
Say, a player is extremely defensive minded. They set up a defence where opposing players rarely clear more than 2 zones. This player is unlikely to have much for offensive and would be unlikely to battle the amount needed to get a full activity score, yet they're active and playing to win every round. It would indeed be unfair for a player like this not to have their activity score visible. So, they can adapt and attack enough times to get a full activity score if they so wish.
How is "reason alien to me"? Is how this game plays alien to you? The basis of "he cant win" is that he has only 2 or 3 complete relic teams, with the 2 strongest being pheonix and a kelleran beq, and maybe admiral akbar rebels, going up against a roster that has 4 complete galactic legend teams that are also multiple relkcs higher. Plus about 20 other relic teams. Are you telliing me you can take a relic 3 pheonix team and beat any one of those 4 GL relic 7/8 teams? Thats the basis of "he cant win" , if you think otherwise then you havent been playing thjs game that long or looked at the acreenshots posted
You're son punched up quite a bit. Good for him. Now its my turn to punch him down, cause im a crappy player with 15.5m gp. A story as old as time...Icarus 🤣
Reason is a completely alien concept to you, isn't it.
"it's not a matter of I don't think I can win, it's a matter of I can't win"
What is the basis of "I can't win"? That you don't think you can win.
It's a ladder, it is not, and should not be handicapped, that would defeat the purpose of it being a ladder.
If the mechanisms by which fairly important things are determined are hidden from players then players can't adapt their gameplay to try and improve their chances and/or results. That is pretty crummy. They might not succeed, but they should have the opportunity to try.
Adopting criteria and mechanisms that are kept hidden from the players is a terrible idea.
The main reason I think it should be unseen, is that it isn't a useful number in anyway and could be confusing. If you think it would be better as a visible figure, then yeah fine.
Can you explain why you think keeping it hidden is a terrible idea? It has zero competitive impact.
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