How is match making going to work with such a small player base?

How is match making going to work with such a small player base?

How is such a small player base going to get bigger when people don't enjoy being stomped by full proto squads when their team are brain dead?


How many new people do you think actually stay to play dust after battle academy when they keep facing unbalanced matches most of the time? Ratio would be pretty low...

New players play this game? All i ever see is beta vets. The chance CCP had for that was on may 14th. I don't see match making helping with SP gap. Player base is to small for matching noobs just have to take the ass whipping until they grind for enough SP.

New players play this game? All i ever see is beta vets. The chance CCP had for that was on may 14th. I don't see match making helping with SP gap. Player base is to small for matching noobs just have to take the ass whipping until they grind for enough SP.

Make a new character and go into the instant battle academy. You might say they're all alts, but I don't see people that bad (or that number of 8 year old CoDumbasses on chat) elsewhere in the game.

Ok i will play along is CCP going to have a noob academy for the game types we currently play? When will they graduate after how many SP gained? What I'm asking is how is this going to work i never played a FPS with match making.

Is still terrible.

I just got a battle where the team I was on was more or less pure randoms, while the other team was made almost completely up of 3 corp squads. Within a few minutes, all my team had left outside of the redzone was a pair of CRUs, both of which quickly came under attack by AUR HAVs.

This isn't a rarity either; there's almost always a noticable imbalance between the teams.

Hopefully this "improved matchmaking" takes squads into account, and not just gear.

How is match making going to work with such a small player base?

Hint: It won't.

Is still terrible.

I just got a battle where the team I was on was more or less pure randoms, while the other team was made almost completely up of 3 corp squads. Within a few minutes, all my team had left outside of the redzone was a pair of CRUs, both of which quickly came under attack by AUR HAVs.

This isn't a rarity either; there's almost always a noticable imbalance between the teams.

Hopefully this "improved matchmaking" takes squads into account, and not just gear.

Yes it will. Academy is always full. Look at the graphs...at peak they get 600 new characters per day. if CCP has a problem with filling the middle tiers then it can just segregate the noobs until they level up into them.

Dude you know its all the vets creating accounts for academy play, dont be so nieve. There is like 1.2 million accounts created. PS2 bomber prolly makes 5 a day.

I went 27/6/1 and 2200+ WP the other day with an AR in Academy.
There are noobs aplenty.

And yet were are they in normal game modes? I think we all know the answer to that. They get proto-stomped and quit after 3 matches.

I would also like to shout out my congratulations to Southern Legion who appear to be single handedly trying to ensure no newbie ever plays this game. Most proto stompers afk or chill once they've squashed the randoms team. Not these guys. They'll send 5 LAVs against 1 guy, chasing him into the redline over and over and over. Whole team of ten guys on the 2 newbies trying to capture 1 supply depot, no problems.

I admire their dedication.

The player base isn't all that small. With an average of over 4000 players every day and.. what is it, 32 player battles? The matchmaking will work fine.

Either way, the number of players doesn't affect a matchmaking system that divides up teams. Right now, they're just thrown on a random side.

Bit off topic but I take it there's no sign of Bojo then?

Nope