Poor matchmaking.

If this is properly set up, the better you get, you should be able to maintain a winning win %. The matchmaking should be done so that the level of Captain you are, would put you in a category with similar levelled Captains. 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, etc. That way you don't have level 12 players battling level 38, and he lasts longer than 40 seconds in battles!
Sick of putting time in on quests, when you lose 14 in a row, because of poor 1 sided matches! And tired of buying things, when Rovio obviously doesn't want to change it so it is more fair play. I buy a lot, and if Rovio wants my $$, they can fix the poor matchmaking!!!

 

@Capt. Blaster To give your complaint some context:

- what's your captain level?
- what's your setup?
- what kind of matches do you get put into?

Bonus points if you post screenshots.

 

Your gear can only be levelled so far without training your crew!

 

Setup is mk4, 1 Epic Big Berta, 1 rare BB, 1 Rare Blast cannon, 1 Rare Swift Torpedo.
Capt level 24, infamy goes from 300+ to 0, don't have screenshots, sorry!

 

The matches I complain about, are 1s where their team has 3 guys with 4k hit points, and 2 with 3000+, vs me, 2 with 2200, 1 with 2500, and some poor schlep with 1600. I am 2600.
Also, I get 13, 14 losses in a row!

 

More matchmaking fails

 

Maybe distributing players into teams using captain level would work, but not making the matches based on captain level. Infamy is supposed to measure how good you are relative to all players, not how good you are relative to people at your level. Making matches based on captain level would defeat the purpose of infamy. Also, this would make matchmaking take longer.

Health isn't everything. If health determines the game for you, defenders should be op but it's actually the worst ship (most people say). Also, you're likely to get a long loss streaks sometimes, everyone faces it eventually, because if you advance to an infamy too high for you, you're bound to fall back down unless you improve your items and skills.

 

Read this informative post:

He basically states that stuff such as ship level is already used in a part of the matchmaking.

 

First of all, a proper game rating system would only allow a winning win % if you are under-rated. Once you are properly rated you will be at 50% until you level up gear or skill, or others surpass you in gear or skill then you will decline.
More importantly, a pure game rating system wouldn't take anything into account other than Infamy. Doing anything more risks manipulation by both players and Rovio, which results in an invalid rating. In BB specifically, due to different roles boats take in it's also important to balance boat type in a match, but that should be the extent of it.

You can bypass a lot of the training with higher level items. For example a Level 1 captain can have a Legendary L10 item, equivalent to a T4E and better than a T5R.

 

Sounds like you are a relative newbie to the game. It's definitely an interesting climb... I hear it's harder now than it used to be, but on the other hand it's much easier to get better items early in the game, so it is just a matter of grinding it out for a while. Don't worry about individual matches, I've been up and down 1000 Infamy in the past month, and my opinion is that Infamy should be a simple moving average over 2-3 weeks, which is 500 matches for me... but it isn't, so I can understand your frustration game to game. Take it in stride.

You can purchase a legendary item in a couple ways: Epic Containers and Coins. It's very expensive, but it's worth it to some people.

 

Mate, i'm level 4mk shooter and i'm playing versus mk6 ships...really fair...(1400infamy)

 

I had battle similar to the first one, but I had mk4 ship and only 1.2k infamy
that was really bad because Inhad no chance against 10k hp shooters

 

dude, I was mk3 with t2 rares and t1 epic sniper playing against mk6 ships (highest infamy was 1457)
and that was few months ago

 

In my last 10 games now, I have won 2! If you add the 0/14 before, that's 2 wins in 24.

 

share some replays please
we can't really help you when we don't see how you and/or your opponents play

 

I try to upload 2x, keeps saying error uploading.

 

it's easy, just follow this guide
https://forum.battlebay.net/threads/how-do-i-share-replay-links-a-simplified-guide.21324/