**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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it has shed light on the fact that kabam also used alliance rating when finding matches before.
people were blind before and kept trying to say alliance rating didnt matter. only war rating did.
that a low rating alliance cant make it to 2000+ WR.
now we are seeing matches between alliances both rated at 2000 WR whilst one is 8 mil and one is 20 mil.
these matches never happened before.
the 8 mil climbed up to same level as you cus it fought only other like rated allies.
now we see the flaw on the flipside as alliances are getting heavily mismatched in this regard.
this will all settle down in time however.
as these weak allies lose a few wars they will drop back down to where they fit and the strong allies will no longer be matching them.
It was pretty well established that at least under certain circumstances (particularly marginal match situations) that alliance rating factored into match making as at least a secondary match criteria to war rating. But I don't think the current system sheds any light on the previous one, because the current one seems to be fundamentally different in at least some ways. Kabam all but stated that they changed they way matches are found in their general statements about how match making works under the new Enlistment system.
But as to your statement that previously we didn't see matches between alliances of equal rating but wildly different alliance rating, that's false. There were reports of such matches occurring infrequently on the forums including relatively recently.
I don't see how removing the choice of when (and by extension who) to make against addresses the issue of players moving to a different alliance. But that isn't a match making manipulation per se, any more than rating manipulation is a match making manipulation in the same sense. Those are completely different problems demanding targeted solutions to address them, which I mentioned possible ways to address directly several times.
This one isn't.
yeah there were still a lot who never believed it.
i do think it sheds light as it enables people to see differences.
yes we dont know wat was before, and wat is now. but wat we do know is matchmaking seems worse and more varied than it is now.
and it also shows that it is hard to get it right.
people complain that they fight only other top allies,
people complain they get unfair WR matchups,
people complain they get unfair AR matchups,
people complain low AR allies get matched against only other low AR rating allies and can climb to higher tiers than some high AR rating allies even though the low would never beat the strong if they matched.
i dont know how to make it right but everything that happens people pick its flaws and complain.
and yes it did happen infrequently before you are correct. but only in the higher tiers where pools were thinner.
as you know as was discussed in a thread before using the bubble analogy.
so yes, saying it "never" happened before was too much. but it happened rarely. and for the most part alliances were matched very closely to their alliance rating.
Ha! yeah good point Siliyo, what I meant was say “7pm PST (UTC-8)”
Oh ok! Yes, I can see that being very helpful for people outside of the US. I misunderstood you. I am sorry.
With the previous iteration of Matchmaking, it happened to us quite frequently too. But that was timing mixed with rating/size being put into play. New system 'seems' less likely to do such. Only time will officially tell that tale. SO yeah, for sure COULD still happen. Just seems like it should be less frequent. Hence why I said theoretically as I cannot say that for sure. Not to mention twice in a row is HIGHLY unlikely in general. Twice in a cycle, maybe. Again, with the old system, that did happen. Just seems like this should be a thing of the past. Hopefully anyway, lol.
i too prefer the time now.
but also being said, there are alliances who would have cleared the earlier time in 14 hours also and some alliances that will struggle as it stands now.
so point is fixed times will work better for some and worse for some.
top allies will of course adjust schedules to make it work.
top allies will take dunny breaks at work to play in AW,
but most people will play when they can and if the game doesnt fit the schedule they wont adjust their schedule to fit the game.
so yeah some will be happy, some not.
War ratings and number of BGs ran?
Why you cant fix that BS matchmaking System?
Why is this war t7
We are t6 and the other ally war rating shows they are too.
This must be related to mussing the win bonus last war
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Interesting side effect, the War Room chat still had our War Chat from 2 days ago, at the start of this new war.
Or match making itself is just completely broken at the moment.
It is a win-win in any case, and there is no downside for 30 min timers
Apparently, shortened energy timers are like that. They are nothing but good [i]for rational actors[/i]. However, irrational actors are a protected subclass of player.
It seems like a lot have been affected by this.
My biggest issue is the multiplier and difference in season points.