Its Leeroy Jennkins
murderers anonymous
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Posted - 2013.08.01 06:31:00 -
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Hello everyone, just a bit of background information first, I bought this game back I don't know what patch, but you had to buy into the beta, it was over one year ago. I could not really get into it so I left, I recently started playing somewhere near the the beginning of patch 1.3 ( A little before that in 1.2), meaning I pretty much just started again. The game is good but I have one small gripe, and I will explain, along with providing a (not very good probably) solution, I hope you keep reading.
So, first, one and only gripe with 1.3, Academy (I am still in this) is now only ONE map, ONE gamemode... but it is what it is. Anyways though I recently (today) joined the corp im in, the squad I joined had a guy that was not in the academy so he had to host, I thought, cool, get to see some more gametypes, the first match was, a pubstomp. Second match, Some big names I remember from back in the day, one being Sver True Blood or something like that were on the other team and I was like Oh ****, well I was right, it was a massacre, we had control of one base for maybe 3 minutes before we just got stomped... again. My bullets don't do damage against these guys, my grenades do like half their shields... IF I get lucky enough to somehow hit them, while they kill me in what feels like seconds( im sure it is actually seconds), but I realise it's Dust, so they have higher skill points, I rage, I even sent some hate mail, you know who got it, I apologies now that I think how stupid I must have looked.
Being only about 300 Warpoints away from gettin out of the academy (if 10,000 is the right amount) I am honestly not looking forward to it at all... I could go on and on about people going AFK in the MCC, snipers sitting on mountains that have no view of the battlefield, but that comes with the FPS territory.
I want to try to run a solution by you guys from a newbs perspective, I think it would benefit us "newbs" and the "veterans" alike, though im sure some veterans rather enjoying fighting against miltias, I would like a skill point based tier match making system. I'm obviously not in the know about how many SP is useful, and this or that, so all these numbers are off the top of my head. We all start with 500,000 SP, I think it should go 500k-2mil, 2mil-5mil, 5-10, etc etc, This would mean that "newbs" go against "newbs" , Average players versus average players , and pros vs pros.
Obviously you guys would know the SP tiers better then I, those were just off the top of my head. Some will say to use the starter kit when getting stomped ( I think) but I would like to use my standard suit with my regular AR, I don't want to feel like i'm losing everything in a matter of minutes because of these guys with huge SP (Not saying THEY have not earned it, I just feel this way).
Plus would the pro's not like a little more competition? Would the newbs like myself not like to play with others of the same skill level? I just personally believe it would benefit everyone, it would for sure bring in new players as well, they will even be inclined to buy things with aurum because they will not lose it all at once...
Just my 2cents, though I have no posts, and I just came back, so I am sure no one will give a damn. I will continue to play however.
TL:DR : I am a newb, constantly getting pubstomped , Skill point based tier matchmaking system, don't know exact numbers, everyone benefits. |
Its Leeroy Jennkins
murderers anonymous
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Posted - 2013.08.01 07:20:00 -
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Gaelon Thrace wrote:The problem with grouping people by SP is that SP gain is a linear progression that doesn't necessarily reflect player skill. If you start in the bottom tier, then as you gain SP you're going to eventually be bumped up to the next tier whether you've actually gotten better at the game or not. Your progression would be based on how often you play and whether you use boosters rather than you're actual skill level.
If the tiers are based on K/Dr however, then as you improve your K/Dr will improve and you'll get bumped to the next tier. If it turns out you weren't quite good enough to join that tier yet and you're outmatched then your K/Dr will reflect that and you'll get bumped back down to the lower tier until you can get it back up and keep it up consistently enough to stay in the next tier.
If your reasoning for SP based tiers has to do with access to higher level gear, I believe one of the things CCP already has planned for matchmaking is balancing the meta level between teams.
Thank you for the great response, I admit I probably could have thought about this harder, I just had gotten done with a few matches and wanted to get everything out, I think Kdr would be a good indicator, I see your point about Sp being linear, kills and war points would also fit under the linear category as well. And W/L is not even good because you have team mates that will do nothing.
You are spot on with your last sentence as well, I would love a matchmaking using meta levels (Though it still would not account for player skill like kdr)
Do you have any source? It's not that I don't believe you I would just like to read/see it.
Thank you again! |