Territory War match-ups are killing my guild
December 9, 2020 7:54PM
edited December 2020
There's been a lot of turnover in my guild over the past six months, and the morale is taking a hit. The biggest problem we're having is the Territory Wars.
We're setting solid defenses, we're getting participation, and we're doing our best. But we're about to close out 2020 without a single TW win, and that takes a toll.
We're not a top-tier guild. We know this. We have three Reys and four Kylos, 271 million GP, an Arena Average Rank of 166.0 and a Fleet Average Rank of 90.7. Decent, but we're not getting ranked anytime soon.
In the past two months, we've had to face three ranked guilds. Even when our opponent is unranked, we're severe underdogs. This war, we're looking at a 288 million GP guild with four Jedi Master Lukes, two Gucci Palps, 22 Rey and 19 Kylos. They have an average arena rank of 62.8, and a fleet rank of 38.3.
Our only chance to win is if they forget to play. There's no fun in this.
I've been tracking the past three months of TW for us. The ONLY time we were matched up against a league that had the same rough GP, arena ranks and GL count, it was a blast. We lost that one by only 10 points, but it felt fun and amazing to not be immediately crushed.
TW CAN be a fun part of this game for everyone, but we need better match-ups. Can we please factor in win-loss records in pairings? Or maybe count Relics, Zetas, Arena ranks? GP isn't cutting it on its own. Please help us, you're our only hope.
We're setting solid defenses, we're getting participation, and we're doing our best. But we're about to close out 2020 without a single TW win, and that takes a toll.
We're not a top-tier guild. We know this. We have three Reys and four Kylos, 271 million GP, an Arena Average Rank of 166.0 and a Fleet Average Rank of 90.7. Decent, but we're not getting ranked anytime soon.
In the past two months, we've had to face three ranked guilds. Even when our opponent is unranked, we're severe underdogs. This war, we're looking at a 288 million GP guild with four Jedi Master Lukes, two Gucci Palps, 22 Rey and 19 Kylos. They have an average arena rank of 62.8, and a fleet rank of 38.3.
Our only chance to win is if they forget to play. There's no fun in this.
I've been tracking the past three months of TW for us. The ONLY time we were matched up against a league that had the same rough GP, arena ranks and GL count, it was a blast. We lost that one by only 10 points, but it felt fun and amazing to not be immediately crushed.
TW CAN be a fun part of this game for everyone, but we need better match-ups. Can we please factor in win-loss records in pairings? Or maybe count Relics, Zetas, Arena ranks? GP isn't cutting it on its own. Please help us, you're our only hope.
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Just a thought.
The problem is, they will have to completely overhaul the prize tiers. If you are only paired up with similar guilds, you have guilds with huge GP bloat having the same W/L record as whale guilds.
The problem is that all guilds in same GP bracket get equal rewards for winning (or losing). So if they will take into account win/loss ratio while matchmaking they will essentially punish strong guilds for being strong, and it seems very counterproductive way. The only way to fix it is to introduce some sort of guild PvP ladder system and scale rewards according to this. But it doesn't seems devs care much about this atm.
Are the rewards really that outstanding that you'd need to do any realignment? To be honest they kind of are crappy win or lose. It's one more zeta and a handful more GET. Not a huge disparity between winning and losing. At least in my opinion. I always thought it was more about competition than the rewards garnered from them. And if you look at the current iteration it's completely flawed anyway how it is because we all know that flat GP as an indicator is completely meaningless.
this. take the free rewards and care less imo
I'd prefer they included numbers signing up in the match making, as when you have 40 vs 50, there is no competition. Just using total GP entered is lazy and results in consistent mismatches.
Unfiortunately you just have to accept TW match making is crap, and take the 2 zetas.