New PvP Balance Suggestions

Suggestions PvP
#1

Before reading my post; I am sorry for any misunderstandings or grammar issues. English is not my native language.

 

The current matchmaking in player versus player has become a real gamble nowadays since release of version 1.0 with the return of many active players, with tons of new players and with the current matchmaking system.

 

Point 1) Overall Team Rating Summary

First example: I got a matchmaking today with 9 players in each team + 3 bots for each team.

In my team was fortunately lots of high rated players with an overall rating of 1500 or above.

The enemy team was mixed up by 900 to 1100 rating.Those PvP matches do no fun to no one except to exteme farmers but “Seriously?” Thats not the intent of PvP in my opinion.

 

Point 2) Mentoring and recruit
Due to the high amount of new players since version 1.0 now many “Aces” or “newbies” or “Whatever-you-wanna-call-them” guys come to PVP with their mentor (see Mentoring System). Often in T2-PvP the mentor is T2 but the recruit is only T1. So i would suggest you can only have ONE Tier equipped in all Slots if you want to join PvP and you can only use the one Tier that this PvP should be played on.

 

Point 3) Aliens

I like the idea of Aliens spawning random in Space and attacking all ships - be it friend of foe.

But in the PvP - the competitive part of StarConflict - the Aliens should be removed due to a very simple thing. They are breaking any balance of strength between the team. Some things i saw recently now: Aliens appeared out of nowhere and shot doen captain within seconds due to three very strong ships. Beacon was surrounded by the complete team but the whole Team 1 was completely annihilated by 3x Alien Pulsar Abliity. So please guys: Either leave the Aliens to OpenWorld or make a PvE Map against those aliens instead. But not in competitive gameplay.

 

My Suggestion

A New Matchmaking System based on the players combined rating in each team.

So for example if there are 10 Players with an overall rating of 1000 for each player the team got a battle strenght of 10000. So I would suggest that only teams with +/-5% of the opponents battle force are allowed to fight this team. So in this case 5% of 10000 are 500 so any enemy team with a rating from 9500 to 10500 would be allowed to join the match. This or similiar systems are used in the majority of other multiplayer-competive games.

 

 

Your responses?

#2

Yeah the matchmaking in this game is not the yellow from the egg. All other Game do it right only SC not.

#3

So what? No agrees, no disagrees?

PvP is the most intense played mode in StarConflict, so why not more activity here?

#4

I have given up trying to change what has already happened. Jasanquinn on the other hand. He is a different story. If you want people to give input use a poll. Polls are easier to get input without any real effort to type a message.

#5

I think efefay sums it up basicly.

 

To elaborate my standpoint, we all know the mm is sometimes bad and unfair. as a squad player with a mediocre skill, i can only tell tales of facing a full ESB with additional WPK and whatnot while getting completely random teams, which is just the tip of the iceberg. It makes 4squad play even in T3 atm really a kind of a club, you are either part of, or not. you can see the queues being emptied because people are afraid to play. Which is absurd.

if this is completely the devs fault i cannot say, since we do have a playerbase with a large sum of over 2 yo players, a great sum of 1 yo players, and a giant mass of coming and going players who just give “this game is dead” comments the second day, or play for half a year swearing about grind and premiums (I dont agree with these statements, I just say you know what I mean, rite)

with this diverse skill, mentality and progression differences, i understand that MM is quite a hard and evolving task.

It is fun however, still, so I can only say, try to be in the club. It’s worth to squad up, sometimes the MM just gets it dead right.

 

Also, do not watch the skillrating, do not despair. Playing against easy enemies will not teach you much. Sometimes you get a beating, we all went thru this (or still do), there were much worser times (and many of the good vets are from those times). Teamwork can achieve a lot in this game.

 

However, that something is fishy, we all know, even the devs. They hinted it in the dev blog. So yes, you have valid points, but it really helps all of us to give feedback on such topics via poll.

 

And yeah, the Aliens in pvp are a nuisance.

#6

I think efefay sums it up basicly.

 

To elaborate my standpoint, we all know the mm is sometimes bad and unfair. as a squad player with a mediocre skill, i can only tell tales of facing a full ESB with additional WPK and whatnot while getting completely random teams, which is just the tip of the iceberg. It makes 4squad play even in T3 atm really a kind of a club, you are either part of, or not. you can see the queues being emptied because people are afraid to play. Which is absurd.

if this is completely the devs fault i cannot say, since we do have a playerbase with a large sum of over 2 yo players, a great sum of 1 yo players, and a giant mass of coming and going players who just give “this game is dead” comments the second day, or play for half a year swearing about grind and premiums (I dont agree with these statements, I just say you know what I mean, rite)

with this diverse skill, mentality and progression differences, i understand that MM is quite a hard and evolving task.

It is fun however, still, so I can only say, try to be in the club. It’s worth to squad up, sometimes the MM just gets it dead right.

 

Also, do not watch the skillrating, do not despair. Playing against easy enemies will not teach you much. Sometimes you get a beating, we all went thru this (or still do), there were much worser times (and many of the good vets are from those times). Teamwork can achieve a lot in this game.

 

However, that something is fishy, we all know, even the devs. They hinted it in the dev blog. So yes, you have valid points, but it really helps all of us to give feedback on such topics via poll.

 

And yeah, the Aliens in pvp are a nuisance.

 

+1 to what the esteemed gentleman says