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matchmaking isn’t fair at all

Discussion in 'Game Discussion' started by peaceful monkey, 12 Mar 2018.

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Should captain level be included in matchmaking

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  2. No

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  1. peaceful monkey

    peaceful monkey Active Member

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    3DEBD992-A3ED-400C-BE2E-90419B12C616.png Just look at this it was taken in around 450 infamy
    My suggestion to fix it is incorporate captain level in matchmaking as well so people dont drop for easy guild quests
    Before you say its fair why should mk2s and 1s be in the battle of mk3s and mk4s
     
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  2. Gnu

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    Let's see how much threads i've seen about this topic

    1.. 2.. 3.. Four billion. Well, literally.

    I have no problems with matchmaking, some players just suck even with their overpowered weapons so just take advantage of it. No one's there to stop you.
     
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  3. peaceful monkey

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    And how often does that happen
    Its freaking rarer than a legendary
    Ps:what mk are you if you are mk 5 or higher it isnt valid since you don’t know how hopless it is so please stop joking about it and actually start a new account and then tell me its fair
     
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  4. Gnu

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    Sure! I am MK 6 player and i am at the moment level 46, my top best is 5532 infamy as a F2P and i have made it up there with a mix of rare and epic items. I have also own about 7 alternate accounts, i understand how you feel. I have played on my alternates down 1,000 infamy, it really hurts to get punished by the matchmaking system especially when there are players that are significantly better in items than you are. You are not used to some algorithm like this. Usually my matches are if i lose, just forget it and go to the next game. No need to complain on the forums about how you feel. Matchmaking is random, it can be good on your side or the enemy side. Learn that losing or winning a game is a lesson to become a better player yourself. Hurting yourself is not a good thing. Simply crying over a game? Really? Know that, it's just a video game. It's how it works. This is not a joke, i am dead serious.
     
  5. YerJokinArnYer

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    Completely agree with gnu . It is a couple of minutes of your life, just move on to the next battle.

    Looking at the end of battle screen, both teams did roughly the same amount of damage. You lost because the other team were more efficient than you at getting the kill shots by focusing on one player than you. You also lost because the other team had more hp than your team, because their defenders used a traditional loadout by giving themselves shields. It looks like your team had the better weapons, but you didn’t make it count.

    Watch the replay again, learn from it, but then move on.
     
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  6. _devill

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    Awesome. I was expecting the captain level to show up for matchmaking someday.

    I want matchmaking to consider number of games, weapon levels, inventory size and age of the player as well. Plus the credit card usage should be a good balancing factor.

    I say four billion+1. I just saw one more prior to this one. :D
     
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  7. HairySpeeder

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    Would u as a complete new player, actually try to go through this hell until u made it to 1.5-2.5k where matchmaking actually starts to take its effect???
     
  8. HairySpeeder

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    its not a couple minutes of your life if u have to play 500 more games to get out of this shit, due to your captain levels and higher ships where u can finally wreck all those mk4 noobs that should be banned for being so shit at the game that they are actually ruin beginning experience.
     
  9. peaceful monkey

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    Now i agree with speeder but he said it in a very rude way and so did i sorry about that but my point still remains i played about like 4-5 hours yet only adavnced a 100 infamy how exactly is that fair it isn’t just this one match there are tons like this i would rather not go screenshoting all of them
    Ps:im not complaining because i lost this match i am complaing because there is such a big gap in our experience that us mk 1 and 2s cant do anything other than sit around and use sniper and railgun
     
  10. YerJokinArnYer

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    Ok, your implicit question is therefore ‘how do I raise my infamy?’
    IMO playing a lot doesn’t by itself raise your infamy. It will raise your skill level, which will raise your infamy slightly.
    What raises your infamy are:
    • Improving weapons and other blue and yellow items. (I’ve heard people say that improving speed gives the biggest infamy gains, though I’ve no evidence to support that)
    • Training your ‘crew’
    • Finding better combinations of weapons and items which suit your style
    • Improving your boat level (though this can be a double edged sword as you will face better ships more frequently as a result)
    So whilst grinding doesn’t massively directly improve your infamy level, it gives you the resources (sugar, gold) to get buy the tools which do improve your infamy. So grinding does indirectly increase infamy. However it is a slow process. Progress in this game is slow (it can take weeks sometimes to overcome some infamy hurdles. But take your time, be patient, enjoy your wins, learn from defeats and you will get there.

    As a bit of advice (as a fellow enforcer) I would not necessarily recommend a railgun at low levels of infamy. It tends to get more powerful at higher levels of training, but it’s cooldown is probably too long for you at your level. As you run a frost cannon, I’d probably recommend a mortar (or perhaps a torp) to shoot those frozen enemies. Once you get 3 red slots on your ships, you can then switch to weapons which have a higher damage level, but with only two slots I’d focus on low cooldown weapons. However, if it works for you, then stick with it.
     
  11. peaceful monkey

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    I dont use railgun that was an epic so i could deal dmg from far away(but it didnt work for me but it was great on shooter)
    Im talking about other enforcers ive seen many who use this combo because they need to stay at the back
    My loadout is frost+overboost for yellows /red=Cannon+flare(its hard hitting the flare so i use frst to hit it since i have both pers on my rare cannon as 4.5% extra damage for burning targets)and turbo for blue
     
  12. White Wolve

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    My team gets MK 1 fixer.....enemy team gets MK 5 fixer! How do you think it turned out? :-l Matchmaking based solely on infamy is just stupid! Captain level ((SHOULD)) be implemented in matchmaking! And if rovio pays attention to the chat,they will notice that 90% of all players are very unhappy about the current status of how matchmaking is formulated! Mk1’s, 2’s should only battle bots and each other! Its just kills the competition aspects of the game with current matchmaking and it should not be luck to have an equal chance at winning
     
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  13. peaceful monkey

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    Not bots
    I have aid that captain level should be included not mks so people don’t intentionally not upgrade mks
     
  14. SupremeCalamitas

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    I got into the MK5 matches at around MK2 and 3, and I didn't complain.
     
  15. peaceful monkey

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    So if you don’t complain no one can?
     
  16. FearsomeChicken

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    All this unhappiness is caused by the devs unwilling to shift away from 50% win rate. If they inplement mm based on captain levels, it would suck for the noobs as they will be losing a lot, and their win rate will fall very much below 50%.

    What rovio doesn't understand is that the forced 50% win rate is causing new players to abandon the game after they get pitted against high mk 'noobs', getting one shotted by them. Not everyone has the patience to get grind through to escape the mk disparity, no wonder battle bay is not getting popular because new players can't be retained.
     
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  17. SupremeCalamitas

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    I didn't say that. strap on some long range and AOE weapons, stay in the back.
     
  18. peaceful monkey

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    I think i should just stoping posting on this thread people probably didn’t even read it properly and just said
    “Another one of these threads better vote no and not even read what he said”
    Ffs i just said to include captain level in matchmaking I didn’t release satan
     
  19. peaceful monkey

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    Thank you
     
  20. SupremeCalamitas

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    I'm gonna have to post reason on this thread too."..

    The matchmaking is like this so that people need to actually work to progress in the game. If matchmaking was based SOLELY on MK/CL, then we would be seeing MK2 in ace or nightmare league. That would not be good.
     

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