I am the guild leader of a 209m GP guild which has mandatory TW participation. As a result of this we usually have 50/50 and we routinely face opponents who are 230m+ who have only 44 or 45 members sign up. The TW match making system has resulted in many competitive guilds intentionally sitting out players to be matched with weaker guilds. Our opponents this round had an average player GP of 4.67 to our 4.18.
Match guilds based on their total GP and not active GP. It should be our responsibility to get our members to sign up. If our members dont sign up and we lose, that's on us. We have players who will be busy/away on TW just post more on defense.
We should be penalized for poor participation, not perfect participation.
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Agreed.
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Or rather: Not average GP alone. A combination.
Respectfully agree with this.
It is really frustrating, to have not chance because of current matchmaking model.
Assumption based on much lower GP than rest of guild..
Comparisons:
Malak 32 vs 49
Drevan 37 vs 49
6 mods 3096 vs 4328
Rel7 characters 32 vs 98
Please fix matchmaking, TW event is broken..
Let's say they add 10 alts that somehow have enough GP to participate meaningfully but no previous TW wins. (40*45)/50=36. But as those alts win their avg continues to go up. It should balance out and winners can face winners
And what if the guild has a lot of relatively low GP players, with a high amount of TW wins, while their high GP players have a low amount of wins? The average amount of wins would not reflect the actual strength of the guild in TW.
Completely untrue,a guild that has done sandbagging since the beggining has an enormous advantage in zeta department,among many others.
F Y this is a guild that declares itself as a sandbag guild and 'unstoppable' in it's slogan , they have 50/50 members but 10 of them are below average,rank 300 arena,bastilla jedi teams,etc, they do 600 tickets and TB battles but won't participate in TW,tha'ts how you sandbag,with Alt Accounts/
1 exception does not make a statement “completely” untrue.
Data? For which other guilds?
Stop trying to make excuses and raison when there is none. OP made an post ,I followed up with personal experience,I see also many topics with this same issue , same conditions .
But you seem to have already made up your mind,if you would have had the time to look at other similar topics and see how bad the sandbagging is.
Lots of them allege that every single guild who is going into TW with < 50 signed up are deliberately sandbagging to game the matchmaking system.
There are just as many who post that this just isn’t true, because many many guilds (mine included) make TW signup optional. It seems you haven’t been reading them.
In your post above you have highlighted one specific example where it looks like maybe they have a number of ticket alts in their guild that they ditch for TW (although you find me any guild that doesn’t have at least 10 members “below average” - by definition every guild has members below the average).
You are implying that every guild who goes into TW with <50 is doing so deliberately. I disagree with that because my guild and many many others I have contact with are not doing it deliberately. They’ve made TW signup optional to prevent dead weight who won’t contribute to attack phase making everyone else’s life harder.
If you want to verify that, simply read some of the elite guild recruitment ads. TW is stated as optional by many of them.
All I was asking was for examples of other guilds that you know for sure are deliberately sandbagging. But you seem to have already made up your mind.
Side note: switching to a combination of total and average GP for matchmaking will not stop the exploiters. They can simply run extremely low GP alts in their guild, and have them actually enter TW. The effect would be essentially the same as standard sandbagging.