Matchmaker is allowing completely imbalanced matches

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Matchmaker is allowing completely imbalanced matches #2321

Open gajop opened 6 years ago

gajop commented 6 years ago

This happens in 2v2:

Me and Corvus_Corax matching against Zolfy and Sushino, the "predicted chance to win" is 80%+

This also happens in 1v1:

Me matching against newbs
Me matching against Drone

All of these are pointless waste of time... Make matchmaking stricter, we have the playerbase for it.

gajop commented 6 years ago

PS: The Zolfy + Sushino balance happens maybe because they are in the same team (queuing together)

This gives them 13% to win, which is silly.

sprunk commented 6 years ago

Related #2246

DeinFreund commented 6 years ago

We should try to minimize the time players spend in the lobby, especially newbies. Thus every button should focus on facilitating playing the game. A "match maker" that doesn't find a match within a newbie's attention span sounds like a trap barring them from the game.

If we can't offer balanced matches that's rather unfortunate, but still better than a game you can't play.

sprunk commented 6 years ago

As far as I can tell, currently the MM is set to 550 elo width and 0.55 party multiplier which results in up to 96% win chance in randoms vs randoms, 85% in party vs randoms and 72% in party vs party.