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Club match making...time to fix it

OMG. Let's fix this, we are better then this!

Goalie - yes/no

Location - yes/no

Room size - 2s+ 3s+ 4s+ 5s 6s


This needs to be fixed. OMG My club has spent more time searching for games, getting matched up with 2s and 3s it is so annoying. It's been going on for years.

We don't wanna play against bots. If we want to do that we would go and play offline. Why haven't the game changers brought this up ? Come on let's fix this already. This has been going on for years and is driving everyone nuts.

Let's make EA now!
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  • There really should not be any 2's teams allowed. Min players should be 3. If you can't find 1 more person to play with then you should either play drop in or offline. How there can be more ai players than human players is stupid. That alone would help with match making.
  • You can choose your room to be exact so it matches all your player's unless you have bots on your side but just don't want to play against them? I don't get it.
  • I know what hes saying, you don't want to match room size if you have 4 people because then you're only getting the 4's not the 5's too. It just makes matchmaking faster. Its annoying when you get matched up against 2's constantly though, I myself don't mind playing against 3's but 2's is a joke.
  • So that is basically it, he has bots and doesn't want to play against them or at least have them evenly matched. If i have 5's i wanna play against 5's not less.
  • cogsx86
    787 posts Member
    edited October 2016
    Youratv wrote: »
    So that is basically it, he has bots and doesn't want to play against them or at least have them evenly matched. If i have 5's i wanna play against 5's not less.


    Ya and with the way it was explained you would be able to set it to w/e it is you want.


    Let me tell you a story. Saturday night we had 7 guys on. And another guy had another club. So we played headed to headed. Here is how it went.

    The first game was Tickletime (club name) 3 forwards

    The other team CC (club name) had 3 forwards plus 1 defense-men

    The tickletime (the 3 forwards) forwards won 4-0

    The next game we switched, Tickletime had 2 forwards 1 defense (defense-men was drunk but w/e)

    CC had 3 forwards

    CC won 5-0

    Next game each team had 3 forwards went to OT 2-2.

    The bots have become a dominating factor in this game. Yea yea git gud etc etc etc. I dont care I dont wanna play against reobts, I wanna play HUMANS. The better your team plays against the bots, the harder the bots play. This is AI intelligence/AI learning. Some will say Ice tilt etc (which doesnt exist). All that happens is the AI plays more aggressive. Most cant explain this but w/e. Thats fine, I dont care about that. Give me the choice to play 4s, 5s or 6s. god dang it, when we have 4 on, we dont wanna play 2s or 3s. Half of our loses come from this. Its joke. And the only reason we end up playing this is because it took us 20-30 mins to find a game.

    Yes we can back out I know. But when you sit for 20 mins and keep getting matched up with 2s or 3s it can get very annoying. Its the only real thing that annoys me more then anything in this game. And if another teams our experiencing the same thing it shows the fix would work.

    I hope the gamechanges or mods or even EA sees this. Teams spend the same amount of time searching for games as they do play. The match making needs to be improved. Enough of the 2s and 3s when we have 4s+.



    You must unlearn what you have learned!
  • Socair
    2815 posts Game Changer
    Doesn't the search attempt to match you with evenly sized teams (exact match aside)? I thought searches were based on 1)region, 2)skill level, then 3)size.
    Plus, even if we were to get a setting that gave more size restrictions it still means you'll be sitting in the dressing room searching.
    It's a 2s fest in club thanks to the ai being better than it should be and guys who just don't wanna make more friends. It sucks that 6s is so rare outside of leagues.
  • I'm not picking up what your putting down cogs, you can match your room to be exact or relaxed so you can match your numbers if you want. I don't wanna play with bots either. I do believe some sort of tilt exists even with all human player's. Even when a player loses a fight he can get the highlight (i don't know why they say he won) and the game mentions momentum.
  • Youratv wrote: »
    I'm not picking up what your putting down cogs, you can match your room to be exact or relaxed so you can match your numbers if you want. I don't wanna play with bots either. I do believe some sort of tilt exists even with all human player's. Even when a player loses a fight he can get the highlight (i don't know why they say he won) and the game mentions momentum.

    the point being, my club when he have 4+ we dont wanna get matched up with 2s and 3s.

    You must unlearn what you have learned!
  • Then choose exact and not relaxed and it'll match your side.
  • The biggest problem with 2s/3s is the AI D don't have to charge passes like a human does, and they also never miss passes, so it's just a battle to stop cherry picking - which is easy to do, it's just not remotely fun.
  • TEDsba wrote: »
    The biggest problem with 2s/3s is the AI D don't have to charge passes like a human does, and they also never miss passes, so it's just a battle to stop cherry picking - which is easy to do, it's just not remotely fun.

    Crazy how bad the AI D plays when you come down low to support them to get the puck out, and how perfect they are when you cherry pick.
    EASHL player
  • Youratv wrote: »
    Then choose exact and not relaxed and it'll match your side.

    4s are willing to play 5s and vice versa. So they put on relaxed. But then it allows them to matchup with 2s, which no one wants.

    You oppose a quick fix thatll make matchmaking better, and that has absolutely no downside?
    EASHL player
  • Youratv
    260 posts Member
    edited October 2016
    The quick fix is bringing back lobbies so ya don't have to play 5's vs. 4's and not everyone has to be on the same clubs. Also ya don't go in hoping to play against less, it's a disappointment that your settling for. You can always back out against a count you don't want to play against. Or you should be able to open up your club and make it public for single games to fill up open slots, that's a little more advanced but would be a cool feature cause then it's like you can hold tryouts for your club. The only way now is to try to recruit from otp but just cause someone can stomp random scrubs doesn't mean their good enough to be on your team. The only other way is if you know them.
  • Youratv wrote: »
    The quick fix is bringing back lobbies so ya don't have to play 5's vs. 4's and not everyone has to be on the same clubs.
    Dont mind 5v4, adding Lobbies is not a quicker fix than expanding search parameters.
    What I do mind is waiting ages for a game because I can only search for EXACT, unless im willing to repeatedly back out of games vs 2s.
    EASHL player
  • Maybe not physically but it'd be the same cause they could just put em both in the same patch file. There's really not enough full clubs. What's up with that?
  • Youratv wrote: »
    Maybe not physically but it'd be the same cause they could just put em both in the same patch file. There's really not enough full clubs. What's up with that?

    YEs a patch could easily fix this, but I dont think the community has let EA know, that this is an issue for them.
    You must unlearn what you have learned!
  • Youratv wrote: »
    The quick fix is bringing back lobbies so ya don't have to play 5's vs. 4's and not everyone has to be on the same clubs. Also ya don't go in hoping to play against less, it's a disappointment that your settling for. You can always back out against a count you don't want to play against. Or you should be able to open up your club and make it public for single games to fill up open slots, that's a little more advanced but would be a cool feature cause then it's like you can hold tryouts for your club. The only way now is to try to recruit from otp but just cause someone can stomp random scrubs doesn't mean their good enough to be on your team. The only other way is if you know them.

    Why are you saying to bring back lobbies and then talk about clubs? Confusing here, please enlighten me. Lobbies are for drop ins, but granted you could get your club into the game. But that just became mostly scrub hunting lobbies.
  • Youratv
    260 posts Member
    edited October 2016
    Lobbies aren't for drop ins, they can be but their primary role is for draft games where you poach all the better players from otp so you don't have to play with scrubs on either side. Every one sits in the middle and the goalies draft their teams, if you haven't experienced this at least once or don't know about it i don't know what to say cause that's exactly what the other thread to bring it back is about. Not everyone has to be on the same club to get an invite and you can be on the opposite team. It builds relationships with better player's and if you want you can work on forming a club. It's also a great way to avoid trolls or player's you don't want to deal with. Also everyone has to take a turn playing goalie and even if they do terribly they won't quit cause you gotta pay your dues to keep getting invites (unless you have a dedicated goalie player then he can keep playing).
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