Talk:Matchmaking/@comment-31211177-20170202094349/@comment-28666529-20170202223941

"The problem is that not all bots|weapons are created equal. Hence the obvious dominance of magnums in lower tiers, etc. etc."

That's why I don't think the early matching systems were actually using value or damage ratings per weapon. If a value based system was used then someone coming to a match with L1 Magnums which cost about 3,750 WP should have been matched against L5 or higher Molots which cost about 198,000 silver. The conversion factor between Silver, Gold, WP, etc, might need to be fine tuned.

Alternatively if you went with Cycle DPS then you might end up with L1 Magnums being matched to L9 Molots. Regardless, that means people with starter bots would never see a Gepard with Magnums until they had upgraed quite a bit  (like L5+ Destriers w/ L7 molots)  and then it would be against low level Gepards/Magnums. The seal clubbers with L1 Gepards sporting L5+ Magnums should have been getting matched to much higher level starter bots  or else low level Stalkers and such.

Seems like either one of those could even out matchups quite a bit with regard to seal clubbers, and would also give anyone  the ability to drop down and play starter bots if they wanted too.

I had a hanger of L2 beginner bots with L3 stock weapons that any beginner could buy. It was fun to play with those simply to get away from the annoying sounding plasma weapons from time to time.