Game balance: General
* Participating in battles with ships of a rank far below yours, gives you less reputation.
What does this mean? I don’t understand how to interpret this. It could be:
I queue with rank 8 ships and end up fighting a bunch of rank 1 ships, perhaps because I am in a team with other people using rank 1 ships.
I queue with rank 1 ships but have unlocked rank 8 ships and end up fighting a bunch of rank 1 ships.
I can understand getting lower reputation rewards in situation (1), but not in (2), which I feel is currently happening to me. If I use rank 1 ships and fight other rank 1 ships I get 50-100 reputation, but if I queue with rank 6 ships I get 500-1000 reputation. Shouldn’t it be my choice which ‘tier’ I want to queue for?
That’s a bit mean. So I have my T3 ships unlocked, but I prefer the PvP gameplay of tier 2. So I get punished for that. BUT! It doesn’t even end here! I prefer playing Guard frigates to Engineer frigates… So I get punished even more, because there is no rank 6 Guard frigate, at least not in the Federation tree. So if I want to play my Guard frigate, I get less reputation not only because of playing a T2 battle, but also EVEN LESS because I want to play a Guard that is rank 5. So I am FORCED by the devs to play T3, which I don’t like in PvP, and soon I will be forced to play T4. Great!
Thank you for the insight. I want to just say that it is not my intention to fight against less experienced players. But rather, the lower rank ships are the only ones I feel I can currently fit with decent mk2 and mk3 modules. I can not currently afford and/or lack the loyalty to fit my higher rank ships as well as my competitors.
What I really want is to fly against players with similar skill level / ship rank / tech level, but this is currently difficult. If I queue with higher rank ships, I am clearly at a disadvantage and it is me who is farmed by older players, but if I queue with lower rank ships I have too much advantage but am also penalized for it via reputation.