How is it not cheating?

I was matched OaTo, the infamous OaTo WDK he 3 shot me. After respawn I managed to kill him once. I am no match against him skill wise and gear wise too.

 

I disagree with this. Gear Score was supposed to allow experimentation with different boats and configurations and the Devs were responsible for proper Gear Score calculation. Whatever EventMatchmaker(tm) uses, it's not working. I'd bet if gear score was adjusted by training, and all that other crap taken out of EventMatchmaker(tm)'s algorithms, things would be a lot more fair.

When I jumped in my MK2 boat (from my MK6) I was absolutely over-powered by an MK5 with 2X the Gear Score. Was that considered seal clubbing? Yea, for the MK5. Was it the MK5's fault? No... EventMatchmaker(tm) put us together. When I jumped in an MK4, I was put against an MK6's with Gear Score 2200-3k higher, and even an MK7. Was I seal clubbing? Ha... again, I was the one being Seal Clubbed. Was this reasonable matchmaking? No. It was neither player's fault.

The players that benefitted in this particular event are those that ran multiple Epic T5 weapons... they ran their normal loadout and EventMatchmaker(tm) provided one baby seal after another. It wasn't the player's fault. It was EventMatchmaker(tm), which the Devs are responsible for.

 

I understand the nature of your comment, that players will try to game the system, but It's up to the devs to make a fair system. Let's be honest, the event matchmaking is not fair to most... purposefully putting together seal clubbing matches where there wasn't even GS manipulation. It shouldn't be acceptable by the players or by Rovio. That's a much bigger deal than a few players in lower MK boats.

 

well , how about 3+K player doing this ? but i'm play mk4 defender with my legendary RG , is it considered cheating ? my gear score are below 3 k , but i got matched up with 4+k gear score . i managed to win 90 % of the battles

 

Gear Score should be adjusted by this. Note that many weapons already calculate DPS that adjusts the base gear by training and perks. This is what I originally though Gear Score was supposed to do. Trying to come up with a separate system that adds up base Gear Scores without adjusting for training, or end effect of perks is a mistake.

 

there is difference is experimenting (like mk4 player uses his t2/3 rares and epics on his mk3 boats, no difference between his and normal mk3's items but he can freely use his weaker ship)
and those NM players who pick their mk2 ship (when their main ships are mk6 and 7) and put legendaries, t5 rares and epics on it (usually only one) and they also equip lvl1 commons and uncommons without perks, their gear score is brutaly decreased by these commons/uncommons while they are still good enough for mk2 as their crew training is boost them

 

Not if EventMatchmaker(tm) properly adjusts for it, which is in the hands of the Devs. As I said earlier, when I ran a MK2 with Rares I was matched with MK5. When I ran MK5 with Rares I was matched with MK6. When I ran MK6 I was matched with MK6. That made it impossible for me, anyway, to run anything less than MK6.

 

In this event we have found that having 1 high level item actually gives harder matchups. Ask @envylife about his big shield.

 

Here's my ship (currently). Ive upgraded ship mk and both grenades since the event.

My boat is well geared for my level and I get that, but i can't even unlock training to evolve most items past where they are because of captain level restrictions or sugar caps. Take into account the training a lvl 40+ captain has compared to a lvl 20ish captain and it's plain unfair.

 

Defender might be a poor choice, but it is his only mk2 boat so still a stronger opponent.
I fought people doing this all weekend as well as the previous deathmatch events. If it wasn't an unfair advantage, why would they do it?

They claim they want it based on gearscore to encourage trying out different things, then they should include captain training in that calculation and limit the number of mk's you can drop to 1 or 2.
Ie. Main a speeder at mk6, want to try out defender? Mk4 minimum and the training you have should be taken into consideration.
We'd quickly see who is experimenting a new play style/ boat/ set up and who is gaming the system.

 

You do realise that you're telling the person who started the thread what the thread is about?

 

Defender was very good in the 1v1, I wouldn't be susprised if it had one of the highest win rates or the highest win rate for the entire event.