Part #1 of this players story on MM
Here is an observation I made and want to bring up to the rest of you tankers out there.
I've been playing Tanks since June of 2011 and ever since that time I have gone thu all the patches as the rest of you have. Getting new maps, fixed maps back, new tanks, & new tech tree add on's like the Chinese and Japanese lines. Some tweaks here & tweaks there. Nerfing of tanks and buffing of others.. Much changes over the years of playing. But I fear soon I'll have to leave to move on to greener pastures. Not because I no longer want to play W.o.T. but because with all the maps and tanks and other little stuff War Gaming gives us.. They still won't fix the biggest issue with this game..
Match Making!!
Match Making has always been a thorn in our side, but this past several months it's gotten extremely worse!! "
"Players come and go from most any game - true."
But I believe with these issues that MM causes and the stress level that goes up due to 2/3ers of most pub teams are just playing in tanks that are too advanced for their skill levels..
A few patches ago they came out with this Personal rating system. Why? Is it too at some point help fix this issue? And how? The system they base that Personal rating on is a joke compared to a proven working system like WN7 or the newest format WN8.
What would be a total "dream like idea" would be to base the personal rating on tier advancement.
Example:
Tier 1 thru tier 4 is personal rating 0 to 2500
Tier 5 thru tier 7 is personal rating 2501 to 4500
Tier 8 P.R. 4501 to 5500
Tier 9 P.R. 5501 to 6500
Tier 10 P.R. 6501 to whatever.. You get the point..
Someone with 2450 P.R. would not be able to research or buy a tier 5 tank.
I'm not the greatest stat showing skilled player by any means, but I'm above average and I would tend to think players with WN8 of 1500 to 3000 would agree with me on this.
War Gaming seems to just give the game things it thinks will keep bringing new players and keeping existing players, and in most cases that's true, but for the minority of us what want to play a strategy game that is fun (stress free) and rewarding; their changes mean very little.
I feel most players that know how to play, would prefer to play with other "like" players.
To use the WN color system..
Red, Orange and Yellow players... << group 1 player matches
Green, Blue, and Purple players... << group 2 player matches
all you got to do is ask yourself..
How long in Queue would you wait for that??
Me personally........................ I would wait!!
How about you?