I have just had a string of what I would call poorly balanced games.

Often the two best players are placed on the same team, and often there was one player who was just significantly lower rated that everyone else, making the game unbalancable. Often we get a very very high rated player paired with a very low rated player, while these are arguably, "balanced", they are often not fun for those involved and I would definitely prefer to avoid them.

I understand there is a desire to match people so games can be played and avoid wait times, but with the balance in these games, I would often prefer not to play them. Particullarly games 1,3,4,6,7 the balance was so in my disadvantage it literally sucks all the fun out of it. Occasionally inbalanced game is obviously fine but this wasn't occasionally.

And I doubt Finx or Wifi enjoy being paired with so low rated players.

Please keep people in the queue longer so we can get more fairly balanced matches. As it stands, the chances of me getting a shit game is so high I am sure it wouldn't only just discourage me from participating in TMM. What would people prefer?

Game 1
BattleMoose 1133 Sigm 1012
Catman222 67 PomidorTawer 858

Game 2
(This one was actually allright)
BattleMoose 1155 lllS_update_Sll 1216
Forsaken_Child 877 ghnaf 909

Game 3
BattleMoose 1167 oles 1207
CallousRat 737 ills_update_sll 1207

Game 4
BattleMoose 1180 Mechanic_345 1008
Mandalore 786 ills_update_sll 1196

Game 5
Wifi_ 1860 BattleMoose 1204
Tuttifrutti 308 Roftante 1047

Game 6
BattleMoose 1219 Yolona-Oss 864
Photon 497 oles 1190

Game 7
b1adam 1429 BattleMoose 1241
Forsaken_Child 809 Mandalore 780

Game 8
Finx 1896 BattleMoose 1251
kiril608 -132 Mandalore 771

Game 9
Finx 1905 BattleMoose 1216
SimontheGamer44 537 Zwierzak 1315

@blackyps said in Matchmaker Algorithm Feedback Thread:

In theory this should prevent matches where e.g. a 400 and a 1600 rated player are in the same game. However the system gives everyone a bonus for each time they have not been matched. So during relatively quiet hours you could still get more unbalanced matches.

I very much hoped we would avoid the possibility having such imbalanced games. They were terrible before, so much so I stopped playing 2v2s alltogether.

Being in Australia, most times are quiet times. If I have to wait a long time to get a balanced game then so be it. But waiting a long time to only get an unbalanced game is the worst possible outcome for me.

I appreciate opinions will vary and wish you luck in developing an algorithm that the majority of the community will be happy with.

Curiosity got the better of me and spent some time going through the FaF M&M discord and whatever else has been going on. There is what I could only describe as a lot of "not okay conduct". It really doesn't seem like a space that encourages new map makers, at times the direct opposite. I am not okay with this process being a closed election. The entire process should involve the community much much more.

A t1 land unit with only radar jamming, like the UEF frigate but the signals need to be much closer to the unit so on radar it will look like 5 units which move quasi realistically. No combat abilities whatsoever. Should move the same as the t1 tank unit so it would look like a raiding force that would be expected during t1 phase of the game.

Even if your opponent knows you are using them, mixing them in with your regular army will make it difficult for your opponent to accuratly assess its strength from just radar.