Tired of World War Mismatches

[StarTrekAlliance]

Just wondering how WW matching is going for everyone after the change? Our first couple of Wars seems to be pretty good matches, but now it seems every World War is a mismatch with a more powerful opponent who uses sandbags. Our current opponent has 4 Iron Age at the bottom. Our alliance does not use sandbags and we don't even have any Iron Age on the current War Team. It's just getting really old to the point where I don't even want to participate in the World Wars.

PSA: If you are a team who uses sandbags...STOP! It's a form of cheating in my opinion and screws honest teams. It also screws over any team that tries to get all their players involved in the Wars regardless of level or ability.

 

[Bootney Lee Fonsworth]

As far as I can tell the new matchmaking is just the old matchmaking with a tighter beginning threshold that expands more rapidly when that threshold isn't met. To be fair though, I've only participated in one war since it was implemented so I'm basing this on casual observation. If you folks have been winning a lot then you're probably already running into what used to be top 100-500 alliances due to the glory compression.

 

[Bootney Lee Fonsworth]

Matchmaking can't be fixed. For every level 225+ plus player who leaves it would take a non-cheating, non-paying player a year of breakneck playing, more likely 2 years of realistic playing to get to their level. All the band-aids in the world aren't going to staunch the bleeding caused by this game's insanely high barriers to entry. I would be curious to know the actual amount of unique players this game has. Not veterans with multiple accounts to pass the time between the now 16 day upgrades, not sandbags. Actual daily players.

It's been debated endlessly and gone nowhere but without lowering the bar to get to the third-to-last age this is probably the best matchmaking will ever get.

Throw in the rampant and persistent cheating that pushes sandbagging but otherwise honest alliances further down the glory hole (ha!) and one doesn't need a doctorate in Nexonology to see where things will end up.

 

[sileepuppee]

With each passing war it's been changing little by little. The first few wars it felt like it could go to either alliance and the glory numbers for 20v20 were always about 300 up and down. We are currently at 5 wins in a row and with every win the glory numbers have been reverting to numbers like gain 180 if we win or lose 400+ if we lose. Not sure how that is balanced but regardless the other side has been fighting tooth and nail and using troop cards all over but we manage to overcome by a few stars. There has yet to be one war that's come down to time, it's always been by stars which was surprising even with the other side going ar crazy. I will try and post but 2 of the war had some individual cheaters that fortunately suck at cheating. They were able to use 8 troops cards in a battle.

 

[Telemark948]

It started really well, some very close matchmaking and close results. Now the last two wars have gone to pot, one in out favour and our current war is the worst matchmaking I've seen and we are supposed to be the favourites according to points win or lose . However,

they have:

7 space age
4 Cold war
7 Atomic
1 Global
1 industrial

We have, and all players chosen are very active players:
0 space age
2 Cold war
9 Atomic
3 global
3 industrial
3 medieval

Unless the other team don't bother turning up, then forget it...

 

[No Angel]

Hm, I don't know. I'm currently sitting in 6 different alliances with all my accounts. 2 friends of mine who started their own alliances for about 1, 2 months ago kept winning even when the stats said different. 1 of them has even reached top 300 alliance. They run on 10x10.
One is not sandbagged, highest player is Atomic, has met a couple Space Age enemies, and win them all.
Other One is heavily sandbagged, highest player is Space Age, well actually almost half of the alliance are Space and Cold War Age
Both keep winning.

Now comparing to Stilettos. Everyone is daily player. Only 1 with an alt participating in wars. I can't say we will keep winning, but progressing very good.
It's kinda chill alliance, never cared for glory though we enjoy war loot and AXP.
I can call this is a home environment

Comparing to a random alliance I picked while traveling. It's a small one but they have enough high level players. They lose because no one is motivated enough to make war plans. Matchmaking simply can be overcome every time but they're just less coordinated.
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​​​​​So I guess it's not about matchmaking and sandbagging, sometimes it's about skills and strategies, (and bills) also.
Plus, you must remember the reason why you're in an alliance for the first place. If you want to keep winning, do whatever you can, improve, swim to follow the stream if you don't want to get drowned.
If you just want to play calmly then I guess you shouldn't worry about bad matchmaking. Not everybody would win all battles.
I understand basically alliances would take everyone who opt in and ask for war, to war. But if we want to win we don't just take everyone without calculating winning ratio and strategies here and there. Some members must understand why they have to sit out of war, and some leaders must understand why they have to set up good team members.
With all those setups I'm sure we won't be pissed much whenever we get bad matchmaking. Still pissed, just not much! I'm saying this for regular alliances, as I know elite ones would only be pissed when they meet cheaters!

I also agree that this new mm system is not different from the past one seems the same for me.

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