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Problems with matchmaking
Mezhu:
The last thing I'd do is queue for a match via matchmaking without crew form, especially as long as it doesn't put me in with a captain I feel comfortable crewing for..
Dev Bubbles:
Hi Mezhu, I know what you mean, and this is why we allow for crew form. Yet, crew forms tend to be the worst balanced cases in the match maker right now, both substantively and perceptually, especially in edge cases where our best players crew form into them and there aren't enough novices to form a novice match. I just got another report of this, and once again, it was a crew form match. Herein lies the dilemma for us. A feature like crew form is great for social interaction and community building. Yet, it hurts our ability to balance the games.
This is what we are struggling with and are up against. We've tightened narrowed our match making criteria for both novice and rating balance, and hope that can help a bit. But fundamentally, if we want to keep crew form, we might not ever have a perfectly balanced match system.
It's tough is all I'm saying. We'll keep working and improving though.
Mezhu:
Which is why I'm suggesting for the MM system to treat these crews differently, look for other similar stacks even within running games and attempt putting them all in the same lobby sooner or later, even if that means some of them having to wait a bit longer.. Of course that would also require no rematching but instead throwing everyone back to the queue once a game's over.
But anyway, not allowing players to queue up with their friends because they're 'too good' or 'too new' doesn't seem like a legit solution
I think that's in everyone's best interest. Experienced players who stack up together don't do it for the sake of pubstomping, they do it because that's how they're enjoying the game and, more often than not, are looking for a challenging game. And that's when they're dangerous to lobby balance- when solo queuing they're not as a significant factor in determining the lobby's balance and thus don't require any special treatment by the MM.
Replaceable:
Muse: "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
That is all.
Hoja Lateralus:
^ So we have to go back to 1.3.7 I gues...
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