BACONSTRIps
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- May 5, 2019
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Our cartell Norwegian Gordos, currently the second best cartell in Norway, are getting really frustrated and upset about what we see as extremely unfair matchups in cartell wars.
Since New Years, we have continuously been matched against the Top 20 best cartells in the world roughly about every third cartell war we search for. It doesn't seem to differ if its a long or short search, or whether we search for an opponent or accept someone else's. Moreover we have tried to edit our search perimiters by adding more players to the war and/or excluding our best players.
Now we are currently in a war against Down n Durty, and we have previously met among others; NoBull, Nomads, French Narcos, SOEC, italy war and Unstoppable.
Our cartell level is 65, our rating is just over 53k and we have currently almost the worst win rate among the top 20 cartells in Norway with only 121/281. We lose on average 3-4 out of 5 wars because we seem to always meet cartells that are way above our level.
This results in us not even bothering to perform attacks and these top 20 cartells gets "Free Victories" which from what ive read in this forum occurs a lot with other cartells as well. Its also very frustrating that we are stuck in these totally lost wars for two days, not able to do nothing but wait. Either giving us a message with "no suitable cartell war opponents was found" or a "surrender"-button would be appreciated, although this is not a fix to the problem but merely a quick solution while you work hard to fix the real underlying problem; namely your match-making algorithm. Introducing a limit of lets say 10-20% above or below in range, or something similar would mayne solve this. But now there seem to be no roof/floor of what you can meet.
For us it is not understandable how it is not possible to match us with more similar cartells with similar parameters, because obviously our parameters are FAR away from those in the top 20. Understand me right in my complain here, because we're not looking for easy, 10-levels-below-us opponents that would give us "free speedups", but rather closer rated cartells where we can have interesting battles with close wins to either cartell. But as it is, in 9 out of 10 wars, one side will win almost without an effort because the other side simply gives up without a fight.
This problem is furthers emphasized with the new updates in the game, introducing Don Neto talents and Warden Towers, which makes the cash/resource flow of our cartell members and most likely others as well, close to negative and especially when it comes to cash.
Participating in a Cartell War with BoG with torchers cost us 3.6 mill cash. Now, when we cant even attack other players on the map, because we have not spent $1000+ on the roulette to obtain 4/8/12 Davids with the necessary required tallents and skills, it is simply impossible to get enough cash/resources to make the game flow as it used to. Having to reinforce our troops for 1.2 mill cash everytime we try a difficult base, either because we want to improve ourself by testing matchups against better players or simply to try to get resources and improve our rating level, it isnt feasible in the long run. The only option once past level 61 is to "invest" hundreds of dollars on Davids, which may even disappear before the year is over. And with players that have already spent close to that amount on previous updates and meta game sicarios we simply feel we get no return for the money we spend.
The core group of our cartell members have played this game now for 3-4 years. Many are expressing such deep frustrations at the moment that they are seriously considering to quit. Most likely these frustrations are equal among other cartell members around the world. We love to play, we love to compete, but FTX, if you continue down this road you will loose a lot of players in the mid-range to nearly top-range players because no one is interested in loosing 9 out of 10 cartel wars. And then you would be left with only the very top 1% of players and the bottom 10-20% of players. This is certainly not in any on of us' interest, so please do something to fix this as I would hate to see my cartell crumble after having spent 3 years playing and had the joy of becoming friends with many people through this game.
Since New Years, we have continuously been matched against the Top 20 best cartells in the world roughly about every third cartell war we search for. It doesn't seem to differ if its a long or short search, or whether we search for an opponent or accept someone else's. Moreover we have tried to edit our search perimiters by adding more players to the war and/or excluding our best players.
Now we are currently in a war against Down n Durty, and we have previously met among others; NoBull, Nomads, French Narcos, SOEC, italy war and Unstoppable.
Our cartell level is 65, our rating is just over 53k and we have currently almost the worst win rate among the top 20 cartells in Norway with only 121/281. We lose on average 3-4 out of 5 wars because we seem to always meet cartells that are way above our level.
This results in us not even bothering to perform attacks and these top 20 cartells gets "Free Victories" which from what ive read in this forum occurs a lot with other cartells as well. Its also very frustrating that we are stuck in these totally lost wars for two days, not able to do nothing but wait. Either giving us a message with "no suitable cartell war opponents was found" or a "surrender"-button would be appreciated, although this is not a fix to the problem but merely a quick solution while you work hard to fix the real underlying problem; namely your match-making algorithm. Introducing a limit of lets say 10-20% above or below in range, or something similar would mayne solve this. But now there seem to be no roof/floor of what you can meet.
For us it is not understandable how it is not possible to match us with more similar cartells with similar parameters, because obviously our parameters are FAR away from those in the top 20. Understand me right in my complain here, because we're not looking for easy, 10-levels-below-us opponents that would give us "free speedups", but rather closer rated cartells where we can have interesting battles with close wins to either cartell. But as it is, in 9 out of 10 wars, one side will win almost without an effort because the other side simply gives up without a fight.
This problem is furthers emphasized with the new updates in the game, introducing Don Neto talents and Warden Towers, which makes the cash/resource flow of our cartell members and most likely others as well, close to negative and especially when it comes to cash.
Participating in a Cartell War with BoG with torchers cost us 3.6 mill cash. Now, when we cant even attack other players on the map, because we have not spent $1000+ on the roulette to obtain 4/8/12 Davids with the necessary required tallents and skills, it is simply impossible to get enough cash/resources to make the game flow as it used to. Having to reinforce our troops for 1.2 mill cash everytime we try a difficult base, either because we want to improve ourself by testing matchups against better players or simply to try to get resources and improve our rating level, it isnt feasible in the long run. The only option once past level 61 is to "invest" hundreds of dollars on Davids, which may even disappear before the year is over. And with players that have already spent close to that amount on previous updates and meta game sicarios we simply feel we get no return for the money we spend.
The core group of our cartell members have played this game now for 3-4 years. Many are expressing such deep frustrations at the moment that they are seriously considering to quit. Most likely these frustrations are equal among other cartell members around the world. We love to play, we love to compete, but FTX, if you continue down this road you will loose a lot of players in the mid-range to nearly top-range players because no one is interested in loosing 9 out of 10 cartel wars. And then you would be left with only the very top 1% of players and the bottom 10-20% of players. This is certainly not in any on of us' interest, so please do something to fix this as I would hate to see my cartell crumble after having spent 3 years playing and had the joy of becoming friends with many people through this game.
