Take that detour. Then come back telling us you’re wrong. This is extremely easy to check all on your own. You don’t even need dev quotes, all you need is to strip your gear from the ship and see that your ranking doesn’t change.
I’ve queued people in T2 and T3 ships with exceptionally bad gear from my corp into R12 queue as well. Our rating was always decided by one single factor: highest ranked SHIP in the squad. Equipped gear, other ships, implant levels - none of these matter to the match maker.
It’s pretty obvious why too. There are not enough players in matchmaking to fine tune it. That’s why you often get mixed T4 and T3 fights when you queue as T3. That’s why T4 anything and T3 regular still gets bots in almost every match.
P.S. I’ve used that as well as verbose log since about a week after I started the game. You have no clue what you’re talking about. I happen to be fluent in russian so I follow the russian forums and their “ask the devs” thread.
Only obvious thing for me is that you argue here for the sake of arguing, basically repeating what I said using different words.
You can’t have MkIII gear equipped without reaching mid-rank which unlocks that gear quality in any given Tier, implant levels = rank of ship you use (as higher rank implants don’t apply effects even if unlocked), it uses best Tier and geared ship in your roster as you can choose which of 3 ships to use during match.
It’s obvious that if you take T1 player to your squad and start game with T4 ship equipped it will throw you to T4 game. Idiots who do that can only blame themselves for queueing paired with starter ships to high stake matches.
If you strip T2 ship off all gear you have much more teammates and enemies having also T1 ships in their roster. That probably applies also to T3 (assuming that MM works consistent for T3 and T4).
No one argues about T3 and T4 being mixed up, because reasons for that are also pretty obvious - these tiers (T3 MkIII and higher) are in one “pool” for MM because of low population playing T3 and even lower population playing T4.
The only way to “skip mk1 and mk2” is to fly naked.
Don’t know what you mean by that. Skipping Mk I and Mk II in pre-0.7.10 system was to grind lower tier battles until you have money and sub-faction rank high enough to buy all MkIII (blue) gear you needed/wanted for higher tier ship, and only then enter higher tier battles.
It essentially means MkI and MkII gear as well as Premium gear was obsolete. MkIII gear in any given tier was too fast and easy to get without even flying one match in that tier.
Try it yourself before you spread lies and look like an idiot because everyone can try it and see that you’re lying…
I fear that your fluent Russian might bear same reading comprehension issues as English, hence I see no point of quoting anything from RU forum here. Not to mention searching through nearly 500 posts to find where either Medvedev, Flirig or Skula wrote about queue system.
You might want to reconsider your tone, though. Insulting and name-calling won’t make yourself look smarter nor your arguments more valid. Quite contrary.
Over and out.