Fixing BG for 95% of players with one simple change

Fryday

I write long, so for anyone who can't be bother:-

TDLR:-
Change - From Gold Tier 3 to Vibranium Tier 2
Requirement - 5 Token to progress to the next Tier, Win = + 2 Token, Lose = - 1 Token.
Yep it is that simple.


Explanation below:-

Since the start of BGs, I have seen so many posts made regarding various issue about BG, including instant KO and auto drafting.

However I feel like this season have the most posts made about the discontent with the game mode. Most are about the "unfair" matching system, I can do appreciated the argument from both side.

1) I do understand and accept that highly skilled players or/and big accounts should get better rewards.

2) While at the same time I can understand the hopelessness feeling when facing an account 3 or 4 times bigger than yourself:-

Like this for example:-


The result was a Lost 1-2, I was quite happy to manage to win 1 fight.

Now to help with this Kabam create an artificial matching calculation so players mainly have matchup similar to their account size until Platinum. However this created 2 problems:-

1) Players with larger accounts, have to face some very hard matchup until they get to Plat, so don't feel/get the benefit for all of their hard work /spending in building big accounts

2) Players at lower level get an misconception and shock when they made it to Plat and start facing much bigger account, as the matching calculation change and start to match all players in the same Tier.

So Kabam solution was the Seeding systems, which in theory would of work, however by starting the 1 Token Win and -1 Token Lost at Gold, and have 3 Tiers in Vibranium that require 5 Token per Tier. It complete defeated the propose of seeding. As all it does is create a bottleneck problem in the Vibranium Ranking. Players might start at different ranking, however a lot would just get stuck at Vibranium (if anything the seeding and the new Ranking, only make this problem start even earlier, that is why so many players faced this problem and so many post about it).

Take my matchup above, with someone at the skill level and account size, I would imagine he/she should be in GC by the beginning of week 2, instead of still in Vibranium with a small players like myself. Right now as we are coming into the end of week 2, there are no player in GC between Uru 3 and 2, as most that would normally be there are still stuck in the 1 win, 1 lost Vibranium trap.

So by change how the Ranking and Token progress between Gold 3 and Vibranium

Change - From Gold Tier 3 to Vibranium Tier 2
Requirement - 5 Token to progress to the next Tier, Win = + 2 Token, Lose = - 1 Token.

it help with so many BG problems and people involve including:-

Matching Problem:-
This combine with the seeding system, it would mean the players can make a steady progress toward the level that meant to be for them. In doing so players would naturally be matched with similar account size / skills level to themselves, as bigger account or higher skill level would move through those ranking faster.

I'm not saying that every players will get to GC, but at least whatever Ranking you are end up, you would of gotten there while facing similar players to yourself, which make losing a bit easier to accept.

Point Farming
Another complain players have made before is some players stay in a certain Ranking to farm for point (to be fair this only work with very big size account to guarantee the win, so a every small amount of players, I assume), currently with the 1 Token Win, -1 Token Lost and require 5 Tokens to progress in Vibranium, for anyone that does Point farming, I would imagine it would be so much easier to do so.

But if it was 2 Token Win, -1 Token Lost and require 5 Tokens to progress in Vibranium, it would be much more work to Point farm, as you would have to Lose 2 for every 1 Win. So it won't stop players if that what they really want to do, but it sure would be more work.

Kabam Development Team
For the team, well this should fix the problem with the BG Mode, and less concern for the team.

Kabam Forum Team
For @Kabam Miike and @Kabam Jax , it would mean less Thread made about how unfair the matching system is to deal with lol

For anyone else that doesn't find any problem with BG at the moment, well then there is no problem then, might just mean less waiting time to find a match for yourself.

So really the only people that would not benefit from this would be players the Point Farming, in which case, you can press the Disagreed button.

BringPopcorn

BGs are not a game mode that rewards the ability to just grind.