Matchmaking

I wanna know how the match making in this game works. Is it based off of infamy? Is it based off of league? Is it based off of mocks of ships?

 

Infamy then ship level

 

Infamy as a primary is no good. Just finished a battle where my team had a mk2 enforcer while the other team had 4 mk5 ships and one mk4. No way that match up is even. One hit by a torpedo and the enforcer is done. Ship level and strength should be primary.

 

It goes off infamy nearly exclusively. If it needs to sort beyond that it'll use the mark of the boat (but not the captain level or gear).

The devs persist in thinking that infamy reliably measures player skill when it does not. So any systems they base on that flawed assumption are going to be somewhat screwy.

 

I'd do matchmaking just as they do except I'd remove any arbitrary gear rules (like boat mark) and I'd remove the seal-clubbing penalty. What I'd fix is infamy itself not the systems which depend on it.

 

We're not discussing the same thing at all. You're discussing the match making system and I'm discussing incentives and rewards. This isn't complicated. Rovio has chosen to scale rewards based on captain level and fights based on infamy. So the optimum setup is to be a high level captain fighting against low infamy players (meaning I have low infamy myself). In other words, tanking is a design feature implemented by Rovio.

In any sphere of human endeavor, if you design the rules on way and the incentives another, the incentives win every time.

 

That's because this is a Matchmaking thread

 

Try to follow along. I know it's hard.

• Rovio built the match-making sytsem almost entirely dependent on infamy
• Infamy is corrupted by tanking
• Tanking is driven by incentives built into the reward structure.

Did that help?

 

What do you mean by tanking. Loosing infamy?

 

Yes. More specifically, according to Rovio's rules, "Not playing as hard as you are able"

That is the rule I am breaking and I'm trying to explain why I and others do it and also why it won't ever change.

 

Then put a cap on infamy level based on ship size. MK1 can only reach X infamy level. In order to move up, they need to upgrade their ship. A mk2 ship battling with mk4 and 5 ships is a joke and a complete waste of time for a team of five more often than not.

That or you change the infamy point structure. The last man standing could lose less infamy than the first boat killed on the losing team. Make using skill to survive a bigger component of the game besides just winning and losing. Dropping 400 to 500 infamy at a time is very frustrating when you are teamed up with poor players. Suicide Speeders and Battle Fixers are two good examples of poor players.