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With an adjusting MM all the devs really need to do is make the work to manipulate the rating system less appealing than the rewards they stand to gain.

For example: only allow the scores of the games you've completed to count towards your score and make the MM adjust on a tiered scale (first 20 completed games can only adjust your score x amount, 21-40 only able to adjust your score y amount, etc) then have the bucket that has all your eligible scores track the last 100 games. This way it would take a very long time to lower your ranking in a meaningful manner.

All of this is assuming that a player only wants to lower their rating because at this time the rewards are equal no matter which bracket you play in.

Let's not forget that if the new adjustments include higher rewards at higher brackets it might make more sense to be the lowest player in a higher bracket than the highest player in a lower bracket to gold farm.

A note to the dev's if they're reading this... transparency is key. It'll give more incentives to reach goals (buying/using gold to upgrade to reach hangar strength milestones or buying different weapons for bots to keep at different levels so we can jump around tiers with clan mates etc). There's nothing worse than spending money on a game and accidentally level something too much to play with, it increases churn rate.

I was hoping it'd be out today.

So I can find everything out, listen to all the complaints, then enjoy a week more on the iOS version and prepare for when ours changes too

As hyped as I am with this new MM, I am also concerned with how will they work in the game's "Free to play" mechanics.
Even though unbalanced, seal clubbing is the most usefull f2p tactic in this game, removing that takes alot of the MM flaws but also the best way to farm for gold.
I could be wrong since I am new, only 5 days playing, but I learned alot in those days and I'm almost buying my first Lance.
Hope they put some rewards in the league system.

Geps are far from the only reliable Au farming technique. Thunder schutzes, Cossacks, brickfighting, or even just getting really good at whatever tier you're in are all methods that work well under the current system. Most likely Au farming will look different under the new MM, like you mentioned, too. Overall, better matches will encourage you to play more and earn more Au overall anyhow, so it's probably a bit early to say what will happen, especially since, as mentioned in other threads, the reward system will probably have to change in part anyhow.

Nazi

I am so disappointed with what you have done with the match making. Whatever bots i run i get placed into thhe gold tier . Are you freaking serious ? I have been playing this game faithfully for more than one year and you reward me with this messed up matchmaking ?
Please restore the game matchmaking to previous. If this continues, you will definitely see many players leaving this game.
Appreciate if you please address this urgently .

Nope. Although Hungarian-born, Arpad Elo lived in the US long before the Nazis ever came to power. ??

What is your current hanger?  Were you clubbing and farming at lower levels? If so, the new MM is probably evaluating your skill and giving you harder oponents.  That easily enough could be a push from what was high silver to what is now trash gold or even solidly gold.

It's great that you're trying to be helpful, but this is the wrong place for that. He needs to post in another thread, not muck up this one with irrelevant topics.

Any word as to what the gunslingers will cost? I'm assuming WSP because of their trumped up dollar costs(snowflakes). If they're Au it'll be dissapointing, as that will make 11 Ag bots, 9 Au bots and (still) 5 Wsp bots.

I'd like to see an actual penalty for entering a battle and ditching. It's only fair, since the players that were left to fight are essentially penalized... They probably won't get gold.

But being a better player gets you clubbed now.

I am a 'better player' with my 4/7 average medium hangar. Even under the new MM I can get a fairly high %. Being better means I now get matched with progressively tougher opponents up to finally 12/12. Then I get clubbed by HG/TT until I lose enough % to drop back down.

Being better doesn't give you higher skilled opponents fielding what you field. It gives you the same - or less - skilled opponents fielding bots twice your weight, firepower and health. So my 70% win rate Carnage or Rog goes against their 50-70% Lance or Fury. And even their 50% War Robots 12/12 heavy can still kill my 4/7 70% War Robots medium easier than the other way around.

But I think most of the higher level people on this forum wouldn't understand this simply because they *are* higher level, with a large time advantage over the rest. I really wonder how's it going to look for new players after they've played for a month or two.

I really hope it all turns out like you say. I'd be happy facing similar people with similar skill levels throughout the tiers - especially if multiple tiers were still possible to play in so we could have different hangars and play styles.

I don't mind getting wrecked by heavies once in a while - the sheer awesome display of firepower is amazing to see even if you're on the receiving end of it. And it promotes careful, thoughtful, alert play where knowledge of your own and your opponents' strengths and weaknesses and your general battlefield awareness do actually make a difference. But all within boundaries, and certainly hopefully not to happen as a guaranteed end result of being good (a high War Robots).

I bet like last time you can buy the "lunar coins" with RM and buy the gunslinger of your choice at a fairly steep price.  Looks like they are not going to reveal the in shop price anytime soon.