Poll:Did you like the Old Matchmaking better or the New One?

Not sure yet.

As a middle level player, definitely the old one. The basis of competition should be seeing what players with equal equipment can do compared to each other, with the skilled rising to the top. The old MM made for a good game probably ~80-90% of the time in the old "High Silver" tier once out of the sea of Magnum Gepards, and those bad games were when you get paired with 5 Noricum/Zenit Natashas. In that my win rate was nowhere near 80%, that means even the losses were good games and an enjoyable experience.

Under the new Matchmaker, while I'm definitely being challenged to become a better player, it's "balanced" by deliberately eschewing any concept of fairness instead of finding similarly equipped but more skillful players. My enjoyment level has gone way down, and by and large, is in danger of becoming more frustrating than fun. In that I refuse to tank my rating, I am regularly put up against 10/10+, and often 12/12, players that my 6/8 hangar built around taking and holding beacons just gets creamed by. Glossing over the fuzzy math combining bot/weapon disparity, my weapons do half as much damage to me as they do to me. I am slowly adapting as best I can through surprise, cornershooting, and by bringing up some mid to long range weapons in the hopes of surviving an encounter via distance, but with upgrading a single weapon to L8-L10 taking almost a week, it's a slow ship to change course.

That said, the game, when it gets it right, is still fantastic, so I persist. It's a reasonably well balanced game that looks great and plays great on a mobile device with an excellent community behind it. I'm still hopeful that Pixonic can tune the MM a bit more weighting parity higher in the equation, and the aforementioned league system will again give folks an opportunity to compete on more even ground.

As the game stands at this moment I prefer the old system. The matches placed you against opponents of varying skill but with roughly equal gear. In my view that is a fair competition.

The new system seems to create your elo score based on whether you finish at the top or bottom of the board, win or lose. It seems to be based mainly on your damage which is very easily manipulated by tanking or other means. It also has some issues with very new players and their initial experience (there's another thread on that)

I hope the new league system addresses this. That league's will have limitations on what gear can be used in them. Then matching the players by elo rating against equal opponents within that field.

Comparing the two systems I think can only fairly be done when we see what the league system entails and it's overall effect.

This no doubt.  I'm seeing maxed and near-maxed hangers far more often than I ever saw maxed gepards.

you only have to stay in the match for 3 minutes to get coins. But yes this is textbook tanking by 4 to 6 players in this match.

Its a public forum,and you shouldn't be trying to discourage people from voting. There should also be a third choice, neither - which is also my answer

Yeah, for solo play I'm enjoying the new MM more, but squadding is often middling to poor. It doesn't feel "done" to me yet, though, as Weed mentioned, so I wouldn't feel comfortable voting yet either way.

I am not a clubber and I specifically asked clubber to not vote because we all know they want to go back to blasting poor vityazs and destriers. 

I do not enjoy my competition being 12/12 Trident Furies. I prefer my harder competition to be players up to 8/10, who are more skilled than me in piloting. 

I like rank with skill, BUT only thing i hate is Boa being treated equal to Leo.

Damn have some seperation of light-medium-heavy

new one breaks game balance even more than old one

Everyone keeps saying the current mm will get better but how? If elo is based solely on damage/win% then how it is now is how it will remain. Bot/weapon lvl absolutely has to be a factor in matchmaking or the game will fail, no one wants to fight maxed lvl bots with mid tier ones, I'm already playing less due to the fact I'm constantly out geared to the point I get 1-2 shotted if I leave cover...no I'm not a clubber, I just want to go against equally geared competition and I don't think that is asking too much

New MM. The player quality improved a lot. I can't stand inept team mates. This is the one qualifying reason why I prefer the new elo system. The old MM is filled with noobs who haphazardly level their bots beyond their skills.

The new MM has placed my 7/9 bots with 8/10 to 12/12 bots and it has taught me a lot about working as a team rather than a lone wolf. But I definitely understand why people prefer the old MM, close to top tier games is ridiculously hard for lower level knife fighters, it's dominated by squads and mid range.