You would limit the gear used, thats the key. Matchmaking by SP or KDR doesnt work. I could have 20mil SP points and be a terrible player without any isk and thus using only basic stuff, or by KDR that would mean that all the logibros would never face assault or heavy players, for example.

Yep, i hope someone is reading this. I cant think of another solution to prevent the current state of public matches.

Great idea....

Let's give full squads of the games best players the ability to join matches where all the most inexperienced players are forced to play. This would help balance tremendously.



Now in all seriousness, I was hoping I'd seen the last "sort matches by gear" thread. Your suggestion would only further imbalance matchmaking! Squads of experienced players will always stomp matches when facing a team of un-squadded blueberries.

In fact, a while back me and some other members of my corp formed an all militia/basic squad and ran pubs, and we ended up rolling through most of the matches easily, only running into trouble when we faced a full enemy squad on the other team.


The best way to balance matchmaking would be to somewhat balance the average SP levels of both team. That way, the teams would be somewhat equally experienced, and overall have the same level of gear available to each team.

Great idea....

Let's give full squads of the games best players the ability to join matches where all the most inexperienced players are forced to play. This would help balance tremendously.



Now in all seriousness, I was hoping I'd seen the last "sort matches by gear" thread. Your suggestion would only further imbalance matchmaking! Squads of experienced players will always stomp matches when facing a team of un-squadded blueberries.

In fact, a while back me and some other members of my corp formed an all militia/basic squad and ran pubs, and we ended up rolling through most of the matches easily, only running into trouble when we faced a full enemy squad on the other team.


The best way to balance matchmaking would be to somewhat balance the average SP levels of both team. That way, the teams would be somewhat equally experienced, and overall have the same level of gear available to each team.

im sorry, but we have already discussed this in posts above, you cannot matchmake based on SP, because quite simply more SP doesnt translate to any skill in combat. Because of passive SP you can have a player/character who never even once played the game. How fair is that? Imagine someone who hasnt played in 10 months (deployed in a warzone, medical situations, etc) comes back to Dust 514 and only goes against veteran players in proto suits? Not fair AT all.

Matchmaking based on WP wont work either, because for example a logibro can have tons of WP and completly suck in gun game, you can earn thousands of wp in a game without even killing anyone, do you think its fair this logistics player faces proto players with an amazing gun game? Doubt it.

It has to be matchmaking by Gear (where you decide the maximum meta level of gear you can go against in a match) or by something it was suggested before, a variable based on the sum or some kind of medium of all stats: KDR, SP, and WP.

Yes, i understand, something like ranks. Lower ranks wont acess high rank matches but will have low isk payback. High ranks can acess all ranks but will only be interested in doing high rank matches because of the isk involved.

I see a problem there, imagine i want to use some kinda gun or suit that isnt proto or like in my original post, run a all militia event for my corp. You would be restricted to the hight tiers with the dangers involved. I still think the paycheck at the end of a match would be a discouragement for a proto user to go into low rank matches.

Matchmaking by SP is a terrible idea. Dont forget that having more SP doesnt actually mean you are a damn good player. You can have millions of SP without even actually playing once.