GAC Macthmaking and League System
So I usually don’t write a lot but the last GA rounds **** me of so badly that I didn’t even miss almost not playing the last couple of days, and that even though I used to love that game. So here’s my humble opinion on what needs to improve:
Matchmaking: I do not want to say all too much about it other than that, the current form of matchmaking sucks. Going up against players that not only have 1 million GP more than you but that also have toons like G13 Drevan and G13 General Grievous while you do not even have them at all doesn’t really seem to be fair. I really thought about how the matchmaking could be improved but the problem is that it goes back to one essential flaw of the game. With the introduction of overpowered toons like JKR or DRevan you subverted your own power measurement, i.e. the guild power. Consequently, your GP, which was supposed to be the central measure for how good a player is, does no longer say much about you. However, it could still be starting point for GAC in my mind, just with a different league system and more fights, especially with higher GP to give people with more depth an advantage.
League System: In its current form, the GAC is still nothing else than a random and arbitrary number of fights. Why do you not just plain and simple pick one of the thousand tournament systems that exist on earth and implement it? You could e.g. have groups (all within a certain GP range) where everyone fights against each other and the one with the most wins (and most banners as second priority) gets the overall win of this round. Winners move one League up, losers go one league down. Plain and simple. I also don’t get why these feats should be considered in your league rank. They have nothing to do with your power, so why should they be considered in your rank? Why not just make them regular quests? That way we would also have some new quests which otherwise seem not to be updated anymore?
I really hope you find some solutions to make GAC and the overall more fun again.
Thanks and all the best
Matchmaking: I do not want to say all too much about it other than that, the current form of matchmaking sucks. Going up against players that not only have 1 million GP more than you but that also have toons like G13 Drevan and G13 General Grievous while you do not even have them at all doesn’t really seem to be fair. I really thought about how the matchmaking could be improved but the problem is that it goes back to one essential flaw of the game. With the introduction of overpowered toons like JKR or DRevan you subverted your own power measurement, i.e. the guild power. Consequently, your GP, which was supposed to be the central measure for how good a player is, does no longer say much about you. However, it could still be starting point for GAC in my mind, just with a different league system and more fights, especially with higher GP to give people with more depth an advantage.
League System: In its current form, the GAC is still nothing else than a random and arbitrary number of fights. Why do you not just plain and simple pick one of the thousand tournament systems that exist on earth and implement it? You could e.g. have groups (all within a certain GP range) where everyone fights against each other and the one with the most wins (and most banners as second priority) gets the overall win of this round. Winners move one League up, losers go one league down. Plain and simple. I also don’t get why these feats should be considered in your league rank. They have nothing to do with your power, so why should they be considered in your rank? Why not just make them regular quests? That way we would also have some new quests which otherwise seem not to be updated anymore?
I really hope you find some solutions to make GAC and the overall more fun again.
Thanks and all the best
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Interdivision matchmaking and facing 150+ G12 toons while you have 80 is what throws off proper match ups and normal climbing on the leaderboard.
So making 'differant' decisions early in the game means you cannot enjoy it in the long term?
Well said.
Having or not having DR is not the result of an early game decision. Having G12 Tuskens while still farming for JKR would be more like one. With the algorythm, G8-10 early game toons barely bring any weight into match making, having G8 Jawas inflate yor GP is no longer an issue.
The choices you make should matter. If you saw how powerful JKR/DR are, it's your mistake that you kept pumping gear into ewoks, rounding out a G10-11 team that already got you C3PO, instead of getting ready for the second run of either Revan event.
If you could recover from any bad decision that affects a certain game mode in a matter of days/weeks, there would be no use aiming for the most efficient roster development.
I know that 50% will most likely always be disappointed with GA, but just imagine the GA system to be used in any given real sports event. That would e.g. mean NBA playoff matches are not based on the teams' ranks but on RNG. Nobody would accept that and that shows how ridiculous the current system is.
Until they adjust the GP used for MM, the quality of matchups will continue to be random. The leagues don’t help much either. Until the last round, almost everyone moves up together.
That being said, there’s probably not much that will be done, so you’ll either need to find joy in the good matchups that you get or just be a non-participant in GAC.
It’s pretty obvious that their intent is to reward spenders through GAC matchups. Just look at the rollout of g12 finishers at the same time as the new MM system. Moving to g13 only adds 200ish GP to someone that has roughly 20,000. No one can convince me that a g13 toon is only 1% better than a g12+5. At a very basic level, the mod set multipliers add more than 1% to stats. They could have increased the GP for g13 appropriately before the introduction and avoided a problem. They didn’t, so they probably are ok with g13 having virtually no impact on MM.