Talk:Matchmaking/@comment-31208012-20170202033053/@comment-31208012-20170202050436

I'm pretty dissappointed reading through the comments here. Lots of complaints about not being able to farm gold as effectively as before or the new system favoring strong players with gold. This makes no sense to me … indeed I wonder if these people read the same article that I did.

Certainly, to whatever degree you were previously able to farm gold efficiently (say, with a 70% or greater rate placing in the top ranks), there were a whole bunch of hapless players who you were stomping that necessarily had very little chance of earning gold in those battles. If the new matchmaker works as intended, it seems to me noone will be likely to consistently dominate 70% of the time (except at the very top when&if there are not enough maxxed hangars on to fill out the roster).

By adjusting competition based on previous performance (the whole point of an Elo style system) weaker players should end up facing other weak players with strong players excluded from their matches—giving them a better chance to earn gold than before (when they were consistently stomped by better equiped/more skilled players whenever said players were in the fight based on only their bot/wep levels). Anyway, no one may be able to earn gold as fast as the top 20% or so farmers had been earning it with the old system … but the other 80% of players should have a much better chance to earn towards those needed upgrades.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I'm very saddened to see so many posts about intentionally dropping fights to try to "reset your rating" or otherwise game the system. This is very poor behaviour, essentially ruining that fight for everyone else!