Not a complaint on matchmaking, just curious

So I keep reading how rovio sets up each match for a 50/50 win ratio? With the global launch there are a ton of noob plyrs who frankly are pretty bad. This makes gaining infamy really tough, I personally have dropped 600 this week. Some matches I could've done better so this is not a rant. The only thing is when as a speeder I'm busting out the most damage on the team that doesn't seem right. This is why infamy ranking does not work.

 

Infamy is awarded for the team outcome, not your individual performance. Either you all win or you all lose. It absolutely works as intended, but not as you like it seems.

Best advice is to ignore infamy and just focus on developing your skills, boat, items and captains. Infamy will naturally follow. Streaks are meaningless in the short term.

 

It's an all too common complaint but if it's as intended it sucks!
Award infamy the same way stars are awarded. By not giving players that don't contribute the same infamy and the ones actually winning it just makes matters worst.
These players would soon fall out of the level as better players and we wouldn't have all the annoying problems of bad teams, mortar spammers, etc. And it would be more competitive for even those players.

 

But then what of the fixers? All fixers that I play with, whether they are enemy or friend, seem to almost never get three stars, while shooters get it more often than average.

 

Thanks for this, ive been getting 2-3 stars while playing firebomb, but yeah, some fixers that focus solely on healing or use cannon will have trouble receiving anything above 1 star...

Wont work, infamy works as intended already.
The devs have said the star system is not perfect, so a lot of angry players lol we already get frequent posts complaining about how stars are awarded.
I think miika once said that if you have an infamy system based on players skill wont be good in the long run for bad players. Many would drop the game because bad would be matched against bad.
With matching good and bad players it seems more fair. lol.
I know you meant on contribution and not gear specifically, but this quote by miika kinda explains...

"This also kinda shows that skill is a huge element in Battle Bay. You can be "as good" with mk1 and commons as mk3 with epic if you know what you are doing. Even the most HP and best weapons don't really matter if you can't hit anything.

This is a tough issue because there are no obviously better alternatives either. Lets say if the matchmaking would keep you playing against the people with similar gear. It would mean you would have fun for a while since you would win nearly all the matches, but would that be fun for the 9 other players? Definitely not. And would you get bored also pretty quickly to win all the time? Probably. And would you feel like the game is preventing you from progressing because you can't get to play in the battles with higher rewards and tougher challenges? Very likely.

At least this way you rise up to battles where you end up having 50% winratio, like all other players. You just got into those battles because of you still, not gear."

 

Change it to a system akin to stars & the forum will be flooded with complaints about flaws in that system instead. At least the current infamy win/lose-system is transparent and easy to understand.

You are not at a low infamy because of an influx of bad players, I'm sorry to burst your bubble if you think other players are what is holding you down. If anything a ton of bad players would make your infamy increase. You notice the bad players (and floaters) more when they are on your team sure, but there are just as many on the other side (Heck more, if you are a ´good´ player).

 

I generally agree you just have to focus on upgrading stuff and eventually your infamy will rise, but it's hard to "ignore infamy" when that's how people are ranked and matched in battle.

 

Fair. It's just we need a much longer term view. What happens over the course of any one day or even a week is not really that meaningful. I think it is good for most of us to ignore infamy most of the time for our own sanity. I attempt to focus on developing my boat and individual play. "Attempt" is the operative word here.

 

A lot of good info here and maybe I haven't read enough of the forum on the subject of stars but , I'd like to know what determines the number of stars awarded per battle?

 

This has a lot of merit. At least start by not giving floaters any credit for a win.. and redistribute the floater's points to the rest of the team. Keep the loss as it is, as don't want players to float when they see their team down to avoid losing infamy.

 

Such a necro

 

The whole reason a floater is a piece of shit is because they want to lose infamy. Make them gain more infamy.

 

Lol yeah 'perfect' solution

 

Thanks AntiSnipe, several people were asking the question. Now I know what to tell them.

 

Damn, you beat me to the necro lol.

 

I'm new. The only way to learn is to ask.

 

The more noobs are playing, the better for you! Because in your team there will only be four noobs, but in the enemy team there will be five!

More seriously: Humans remember more their losses (especially due to bad play of others) but tend to forget their wins (even if you win because of bad play on the other side).