Talk:Matchmaking/@comment-26737956-20161017172302

This algorithm is terrible. I'm sorry, I do enjoy the game, but a very small percentage of matches I've played are competitive enough that my level of play makes any difference on the outcome. Looking at the infos on the post-battle stats, it's almost always the case that there's a very-high level player on the winning side that threw the balance off.

This is very easily addressed by having the algorithm simply take a player's level into account. I firmly believe that the only reason Pixonic ignores this obvious piece of information is to encourage sandbagging (what y'all amusingly call "farming"). This behavior does not help the game, resulting in seal-clubbing and uncompetitive matches. As far as I can tell, the only purpose it could possibly serve is to 1) showcase high-end equipment to newer players 2) frustrate newer players into spending real money to buy said high-end equipment.