Matchmaking

The new match making system is not good . That's my simple feed back . I lost 300 infmay lost like 9-10 games in row then swinging between 1000-1200

 

I have to say that rovio is not interested in making a fair game sadly! I do admit i am a level 6 enforcer with t1 epic weapons! I was attempting to increase weapons and was at 1764 highest infamy with the change was now being paired with level 2500-3000 level players just because of being a level 36 captain and having mk6 ships which the game allows you to do! Of course i drop in infamy, never being that high, i now fall into the “tanking” category, i stop receiving rewards. I drop in infamy but am still paired with level 2500-3000 level ships maybe some 2300 level ships and i keep losing all the way down to 100 infamy while i work hard to increase my weapons to t2 epic level weapons and some t3-4 rare weapons! I was told to ride it out! Than i am banned for 7 days! How am i supose to ride it out! Cause now i upset the higher level players making them mad and when i drop below 100 infamy i upset lower level players! I start another account and i get booted off the game like every other match talking about floaters, or it lags so bad i think i am shooting a ship but i am not! It times out in the middle of the game and i am sitting 3 feet from my router! I have written rovio several times with no reasonable explanation! I guess several players on here will be happy to see me go because they expressed that on more than one occasion! I am not really a gamer but was enjoying playing this game for a time so being a level 36 captain with and mk6 ship with 1764 highest infamy was ok as i was still working on increasing my weapons. I never dropped infamy to beat guild quests, but inorder to beat them it does make you use weapons and ships you dont normally use! It really is irratating to be called a tanker when you are not doing it intentionally! Way to go rovio you are really destroying a cool game! I have stuck playing clash of clans for 6 years now can not say i will do the same with this game! Its been more like 6 months! I dont find playing lower level ships that much fun or interesting!

 

I have said it before and I will say it again. Current matchmaking is a result of complaints just like these. This system is not good. High level ships/gear. Infamy tankers. And the rest of it.

The matchmaking before was better than it is now. It was flawed before but it didn't lock you at a certain infamy range. I had posted earlier that I'm stuck at 2300-2400 infamy and it has not changed since then. I did rush to 2600 at the end of last league and now I'm in ace 2 with a top infamy of 2450 or something.

Right now I just want to either go all the way up or all the way down. It's annoying to be at 2300 consistently and not even being able to make the top which is at 3000+ for Ace 1. So basically I'm getting nothing while being stuck where I am. Maybe it's my gear or captain training but I don't see myself going up unless I have t4 epics or legendary. My rare t3 sniper and t4 EC is wasted against t4 epics (running a speeder mk5).

We wanted the change and here it is. It's not something that devs came up with. It's what we asked. I hope infamy system goes back to what it was. It's not fun anymore.

 

i honestly believe it is a good change but one of no use as good players are tanking. For ex. before the upfate i got to 1000 infamy at 500 battles yet 2500 battles on i have only got to 1300 due to people tanking at the 1000 infamy area. I used to do well with tier 1 rares, everyone was not good before but now my tier 3 rares are no better compared to all these tankers with superior weapons

 

You dont want to go down

 

Listen it never mattered what level u got to there will always be someone there with stronger weapons! There will be wins and losses as you climb up the ladder! Perhaps you are climbing the ranks and your weapons arent strong enough there could be complaints on either end! I dont beleive people would all drop ranks just for quests on purpose the ultimate rewards are in the higher ranks! All quests do is encourage people to try different ships and weapons that people may not be good in so of course they lose infamy! Maybe they should have eliminated guild quests instead of changing people’s ranks, and put more rewards in climbing the ranks!

 

no people drop so they can do guild quest faster, that is why there are so many mk5s at 1000 infamy

 

I think you can upgrade your ships faster than your weapons! There should be adjustments there if its a problem. Easy fix cant upgrade to mk 5 until a certain weapon level since it didnt apply before and now its heavily weighted that way. There are a few of us that may not be as good as others there should be accomodations to allow these players the ability to play and have fun. I think the current situation is prudent for rovio since they would like to join a competative market! Its a good game but only accomodates those players that want to kill everyone! I have noticed during certain times of the day match ups are better so yes there is a lot going into them i understand that and accept it! I win some i lose some! Sometimes depending on match ups i may lose more at that time! I dont get more rewards dropping 800 infamy! If its being caused by guild quest then do away with them! If i link up with a guild mate 9 times out of 10 they are now at lower infamy this affects everyones infamy not just yours! So not everyone is “tanking!”

 

I was thinking about this recently. If infamy was accurate, the matchmaking system would be dead simple. You suck, you get easier battles, you rock, you get harder battles until you stabilize. Unfortunately there are 9 other players in a match, which makes it harder to do.

I tanked 750 following the last update... every game was lop-sided one way or another, and it was 2 solid weeks of frustration and more unfavorable matches than favorable. In the past two weeks it has stabilized for me, and I'm up 1000 infamy from those lows, into the 1900+ range. That is critical because I finally see stability in matches where most players actually know what they are doing rather than hoards of bad players that don't belong that high, which defines the 800-1500 range, no question about it.

What did I do different? Nothing... seriously! That was plenty of time to level up my weapons but the both then and now I get quad-kills daily and penta-kills weekly, no matter if I was at 1000 or 2000 infamy. It makes little sense. I'm much happier now because I see less streaks and more back and forth, as the matchmaking system should be.

 

I believe matchmaking system under 2000 infamy has improved. I am mk4 with t3 weapons playing 6k+ battles and get to season top of 2300+. Along the way I didn't see nothing unreasonable.
Before the update, I met a lot of disadvantage matchmaking as the unfriends has 2 or more fixers while we have none. After the update I have never met such pairing unless those fixers are in-fleet together.
The ship tier are more balanced, too. Even sometimes it happens when we have mk2 or mk3 as teammates. But that was because those players didn't upgrade their ships and battle at the infamy of their strongest one.
So overall, I say that it has improved under 2k infamy.

 

I was pushed up from 1700 infamy which i was at to 2500 infamy i was pretty stable in the previous range. All i did was go up on my ship to mk6 my weapons were mk1-2 now i am competing with t4-5 no fun. Lost a lot! Infamy keeps drpping but am still paired with ships mk5-6 with higher level weapons i am not a gamer i just played a lot this summer as i recovered from surgery so i am at lvl 40 and saw i could up my ship as i worked to up my weapons which was taking a lot longer. Now i am band for tanking like i am doing it on purpose!

 

Well, there's the answer, you have a double problem: Competing in Ace with MK1-2 weapons in an MK6 boat.

1. Level up your weapons. By the time you pass 2000 most people have T3-T4, and 2500 you'll see a lot of T5.
2. The unwritten strategy advice in Battle Bay is to not upgrade your ships until you have no choice. I found this out too late when I upgraded to MK5 and it cost me hundreds in infamy drop. In the latest update, since the boat level is more important in matchmaking, that would put you into tougher matches.

 

Well i am not a gamer so i just kept upgrading if i only knew! Lol wish i could go back to mk5!