Please fix GAC Div 1 matchmaking
April 7, 2021 6:41AM
edited April 2021
@CG_Doja_Fett is there anyway CG can fix the GAC division 1 match making? I keep getting matched against players with almost one million GP on me. This round for instance was matched against some one with 3 GL’s. Love playing the game but this really sucks the fun out of it.
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Ally code of you & your opponent?
Taking toons to r5 and beyond massively inflates your matchmaking GP, but you’re not getting the GL that usually goes with it.
R7 JTR and BB8 are adding a ton of GP, but without the rest of the requirements for Rey, they’re not really worth it.
Your top 65 GP is 85k below mine (1.8m v 1.885m), and at the weekend I’ll unlock my 4th GL.
Me: https://swgoh.gg/p/818936382/
Opponent: https://swgoh.gg/p/396163918/
You would have been way better off taking a while longer to get a GL than doing an R6 Traya.
I don't think so. I started from zero First Order or Resistance when the GLs were released so the farm took forever, and Traya has been crucial to defeating JML and SEE teams while working up SLKR.
Also seems you're underrating Traya, she's all over the top 100 in my shard. I see her in SLKR teams and SEE teams on the regular, and since those are the two GLs I'm working on, it makes a lot of sense for my roster. Maybe not for yours, but I have no regrets.
isn't the same thing you are saying.
When CG changed the algorithm, they said they were doing it because they didn't want to punish people for how they'd built their rosters. But as you just showed, that's exactly what's happening here. Chances of succeeding against a GL w/o having one yourself are low, especially in 3v3, so it often doesn't matter much what else the opponent is working with, which is frequently considerable around 6 mil GP. You're forced to bloat your roster in the first place to even unlock a GL. My success rate was great until I geared up the First Order, then dropped precipitously, and only seems to have devolved further since moving into division 1. I understand the algorithm, I just don't like it much since GLs were introduced.
The original matchmaking algorithm punished people who had made irreversible decisions building their rosters. When they switched it to considering the top X toons, people could always manoeuvre a poor gearing decision out of their matchmaking GP.
As for “bloating” your GP to unlock a GL, remember that all GL owners have done this. They will have several less than stellar toons in their top X.
And you aren’t forced to bloat your GP - several people hoard all the gear etc until they’re ready to meet all the requirements. This way their GP never has the bloat without the GL benefit.
You must have misunderstood back then. The official announcement said that there were too many blowouts with the matchmaking by total roster/character GP. That's why they changed it to matching the GP of the top few teams eligible for a round. They never said that it shouldn't matter how you build your roster.
I did a lot of hoarding up until the point of unlocking SLKR. My mistake was not hoarding all of his gear too before activating the First Order, so "forced" is really the wrong word. But I feel like the need to hoard is an outgrowth of the matchmaking problem in the first place. Did CG really intend for people to be making spreadsheets and spending months on months collecting before using a single piece of gear or relic mat? It seems antithetical to what they said back then about not punishing people with more spread out rosters, even if that was a different situation.
I'm with you on the matchmaking, it's getting worse and worse and without a rework of the whole system we're having way too many people in one bracket. They need to do something and the earlier the better. The problem is that they probably don't work on any changes yet or may not even have a plan to do so.
Right now the only thing we can do is to make them hear our voice so don't stop that.
- Grand Admiral Thrawn
Helpful does not always mean 100% agreement. Sometimes it's point out the mistakes people have made. Whether they choose to learn from them or not is up to them.
You made your choices too. Your "voice" on this matter is irrelevant, because they're not changing anything. If you care, fix your roster.
I am quite sure that CG still intend to reward building a strong roster and acquiring the newest META characters before your opponents. It's not good business not to.
Before GL were released people complained about GAS and Malak. There were always complaints from a few people who struggled with the latest META. That part didn't change.
A spread out roster and a roster with several characters at R7 that would have done the job with less relics/gear are two different things. Matchmaking doesn't punish you for spreading out and gearing up the bottom part of your roster.
Some players have managed it better than others. It's not rocket science and you don't have to take it to extremes to do well but you do have to pay attention to it.
My wins are about to increase since SLKR is almost there. I will still think matchmaking is broken after that. Not looking forward to the SEE hoard, but at least I won't repeat the same mistake next time.
Being selective in gearing chars and hoarding for gl-unlock to r7 (ideally) isn’t less essential to success.
*That’s how* we are empowered to control our own matchmaking. That’s literally it.
So which is it Darjelo? To hoard or not to hoard? Seems you've recommended both.
We are empowered to control our own matchmaking through referring to a third party website not affiliated with CG?
I also don't know what you're arguing since I said those things *are* essential to success.
I’m not recommending anything, just letting you know there are options. Some people hoard and it helps them get better matchups. Other people don’t hoard and are able to reach Kyber anyway.