This game is a collapsing vacuum chamber

That would be a very bad system. The current system aims to make matches in such a way that the win probability (statistically speaking) is 50% per side. That's what's considered "fair", because the odds are equal. Your proposed system would destroy that. If matchmaking is based on mk and items (gear score, basically), skilled players will win a lot, while not-so-skilled players will lose a lot. Which means that last category of players will not enjoy the game anymore, and many would quit. On top of that, there would be no point in upgrading items anymore, because every time you would upgrade something, the matchmaking would adjust for it, so that you gained nothing.

 

I understand that the "vacuum chamber" does not fully describe the situation. But there does exist the effect.

As you have said, infamy is created from the bottom, and destroyed at the top.

But the matter is that the created infamy is not directly transfered to the top. And I understand this is where my analogy confuse you.

The created infamy is transfered to low end players. The destroyed infamy is taken away from the high end players.

Unlike the ideal situation, where the created infamy is allowed to flow freely to the top. And this is where the air analogy fails.

What happens in the real situation? Infamy is taken away like a chain. All players except the true nightmare lose their infamy consecutively to higher end players, only to have them destroyed in nightmare league.

 

fair enough... so the system as it is is the fairest it can ever possibly ever be??

i dont get ya lol...so all of us on the forums are not noobs?

 

Yes, except everyone in the middle of the chain gains and loses infamy in equal amounts. Only the ones at the very bottom generate new infamy, and only those at the very top get it destroyed. There is no effect where the entire chain loses infamy over time.

 

wait the match is over in 5 seconds?

 

I don't agree that there doesn't exist a net effect. Your assumption is that the rate of infamy generation is greater than the rate of infamy destruction, but very soon you will realise that this assumption contradicts with the actual situation.

When the rate of infamy creation is very large, infamy get pushed to the top. And the excess infamy are removed. Sounds very ideal.

This means that the rate of infamy destruction will change against the rate of infamy creation, establishing an infamy equilibrium.

If the equilibrium exist, the general state of the ladder should remain more or less the same. There should not be any disruption that cause pain to us, the players.


But this is not happening. It has been a year since global launch. There is no way the infamy equilibrium does not exist by now.

The only explanation is that infamy is destroyed more than created.

 

wait isnt it because of the bots that u hv low match time?

 

Explanation for the fact that everything below infamy 3000 is screwed.

 

And I am not saying that the game is dying. I just wish to point out the problem. Whether this gets fixed is not to my desire.

 

haha i wish there was xD

 

and nml reset is synced with season end times? is that why battles right after season ends are so hard?

 

The effect is not that simple. Nightmare guys have no way to interupt with the gameplay of people with infamy 2000 or below. The macroscale effect last longer than just a few days, if not permanent and stacking.

 

That’s certainly the truth. I always hoped that as I rose up the ranks my teammates would get better, play more strategically, communicate, genuinely stick ‘together’, and stop breaking my stuns. But it’s actually the complete opposite...

The mk6s that I’ve met in the 2-2.8k infamy range, are some of the worst players I’ve encountered playing this game.

I’m not sure why that is. Maybe it’s because that’s where p2w scrubs naturally plateau.

I’m still hoping that things might improve as I edge towards NML. But I’m worried it will just be more of the same, only the scrubs will all have t5 legendaries, and then there will be nowhere left for me to go.

It would be nice if there was just ‘somewhere’ in the game, that only good players can get to, where you’re finally able to experience a higher standard of play.

 

I seldom come to the forum. You can see that obviously. I just want to say that the problem of the current infamy system lies in the macroscale.

A macroscale problem. This is not something easily observed from just 1 perspective. I used to play in the 3500s, until I sense that the old "stupid" players that I hate are diffusing into the air of Ace I.

This is not trivial. Nothing was like this around the global launch.

And this is not a problem that can be solved by patching matchmaking. Personalising infamy for each ship and MK? Doesn't help much. It lies deeper.