Also beginner learns from experienced players , not the other way around.
Fully upgraded Tier3 shield frig regen is more than my crappy MK2 gun’s DPS , that tier3 is so xxxx that he just sit and continue sniping other guy ignore me totally , but i can’t take down his shield using my T2 Mk2 rails shotgun with Greem Thermal Mod (Out of missles) . I just faustrated and has to move to another target.
Eh, I had only one tier 3 ship up until now and I am still performing best with my tier 2 ship, simply because the way it’s supposed to be used jives with my playstyle.
What I observe everywhere is that people try to draw conclusions, or simply make thme up, merely based off the fact that ships of different tiers are in the same battle now.
For one, that also happened before the update(Admittedly a lot less frequently though) And for two, You can still easily rack up points with ships of an at least slightly lower tier, of course the gap between t1 and t3 is a lot bigger, but then, just don’t take on a t3 ship and stick around your t3 teammates.
BUT
I DID Have one battle by now where the enemy had not a single t3 ship, and many of them t1, and while it was still a relatively balanced fight, the power gap was definitely noticable, so I guess I just had the most ridiculous lucky streak in my entire life until now…
It would help greatly if the devs could tell us which parameters and numbers exactly are being taken into account to make the matches.
Can i please get your game?
I keep facing invincible enemys in sick gear, that for the most part fly like a 3yo with helper wheels and win because its a tank with helper wheels against me wielding a broken and dull spoon.
Can i please get your game?
I keep facing invincible enemys in sick gear, that for the most part fly like a 3yo with helper wheels and win because its a tank with helper wheels against me wielding a broken and dull spoon.
But the spoon is mightier than the wheelchair-tank!
You just have to realize…
There is no Spoon.
For all the damage i can deal, there might as well truly be none 
(got the reference, but i dont like a game making my enemys superstrong as a challenge, even in darksouls your skill mattered and you had be on even terms)
Matchmaking isn’t unbalanced, but it’s still very bad. As a Tier 2 I get thrown into a lot of matches where I am the ONLY tier 2, everyone else being tier 3 or 4. This is given that I my highest level ship is tier 2. While I can usually hold my own pretty well without dying too much, I have little to no effect on the outcome of the battle. With the previous matchmaking I could sometimes take the initiative and carry the team to victory, but now it just feels like I’m cannon fodder.
Perhaps different types of match making can be brought in as different game modes?
Ok DEV’s so in order to get my regular rep gains I have to go into a T4 match, correct? I have been sitting in que for over 30 minutes!! 30 F****** minutes and if I go down to T3 I get crap rep gains, Maybe what should happen here is you guys should just RESET everything. Then there would be ONE big bitchin about the reset and then everyone would be equal like you guys want. I have put a lot of money into this game with forming a corporation and all Money to expand all aspects of the corporation and its starting to feel like a waste. I was trying be positive about the game in my posts last night. The grind as it sits is too much, too much for ships now with crap modules, just too much crap in the last 2 patches period. Lets see if you are listening.
Waiting to see if I should spend another dime on this so called beta.
45 minutes now
Now 1 hour I’m done
what tac SAID
Yeah there aren’t many people in tech 4 ships, before the patch usually tech 4 was just a corp thing.
what tac SAID
That.
You know, they could make it so that players are matched within a skill level, each of these skill levels are separated by the tech levels which are kept within separate games that are separated by tech levels. If people of a different skill level form a squad then the game would compensate for it. Think that would work for everyone?
Okay… so i have a question.
I’m a rank 9 tier 3 pilot with fed.
I’m a rank 6 empire pilot, and a rank 3 jericho pilot.
I’m 3/4 of the way to rank 10 with fed.
I have NO subfaction above rank 6. (I just started playing last week)
I play with players that are above my rank but not by much. When we queue together we are placed someplace up between tier 4 or tier 5. (I view the MM graph to see where we are placed). We cant get matches, and when we do I and a few of them are outclassed ship wise.
When I do hit rank 10 with my fed ships, will I automatically be forced to play tier 4 to get full rep and cash rewards? because I’m about 7 milion creds shy of buying my tier 4 ship (the Federation rank 10 Tiger). So NOW when i hit rank 10 tonight, with my meager rewards I will hit a wall of getting my rewards because according to the new reward system and algorithm I am a tier 4 pilot trying to ‘farm’ tier 3. How long will it take me to get enough cash to not only keep 1 out of 2 of my tier 3 ships repaired but to buy a tier 4 ship, only to hop in the queue for an hour before finding a match, since no one is in the queue for that tier.
I like playing my highest tier, so do the players I’m with. but as of right now, I cant get in a squad with my corps mates because our combined MM placement score is above anyone else in queue.
So Dev’s what should i do when i hit tier 4 tonight but dont have a tier 4 ship and can’t play with my friends?
My tiny brain says a Deimos 2(advanced T2 fighter) should never ever, ever, be matched against a Prometheus 2 (advanced t3 fighter), the same for a Deimos vs a Prometheus Fire, you get the drift.
Well kudos to ‘Error’ for trying but unless a staff actually says what they intend to do about this mess asap it looks like a large number of players will have simply given up and walked away (if they haven’t already).
I really think because you charge $ need to actually tell people what changes you will make and when. Many people buy license (now not nearly worth as much) or prem ships to find they too are not really worth their benefits now too.
I think this is how you make money yes? But no player or more license = no more money.
Must tell us very soon before too much damage take place now 3 weeks of bad bad bad in a row.
My tiny brain says a Deimos 2(advanced T2 fighter) should never ever, ever, be matched against a Prometheus 2 (advanced t3 fighter), the same for a Deimos vs a Prometheus Fire, you get the drift.
Phobos Aura is the equal to Prometheus Fire, not the normal Deimos.
Srsly? i had to redo my control scheme to hit them, at least the good ones that aint flying straight lines
they used to fly at the speed of 700. now they had only 600 maximum
oh you sill you!
game is not broken
it’s made so that ‘vanila’ leveling is unattainable, so that you would all buy more gold and buy gold ships and premium gear.
thank you devs for this patch, it seams i WILL be getting out in the sun more! Cause you sure as hell aren’t getting any of my money any more (and yes, i’m a premium player, not F2P whiner)
This patch is horrible. Buy a new ship with useless modules (like useless ship. Recon inty are useless with their unique module : spy drones.) is horrible. Please let us buy a stock ship.
The mechanism was created in order to prevent “Ace” farming on the lower Tiers.
No, if you switch to another faction the reward depends on the rank in the other faction.
Wrong way to do it.
Also today it appears i cant join a battle with T3/T4 neither.
i am starting to think that they never design the game in advance. they just trow whatever code they happy to write and let luck determine the game design. i think they achieve 0.7.10 quality by pure luck!
wow i think i better apply that software design principle in my projects … NOT!