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[focuspark]

I'm see too many matches where one side has a drastically superior number of Assault mechs to another. Yesterday, I dropped on Alpine with a group witch included no Assault mechs for a Conquest match. We quickly discovered the opposing team had at least four AS7-D-DC. No matter what your ELO score is that's a lop sided match.

I've seen the inverse as well. I've been on the team with 3 RVL-3L + 3 AS7-D-DC + 2 randoms vs a mix of medium and heavy mechs who proceeded to get wtfbbqroflmao-stopped on.

I feel like ELO is mostly working, but since Match Maker (obviously) ignores weight class now, matches become incredibly lop sided.

Finally, Match Maker should attempt to balance ECM, SSRM, and LRM systems per side - at least until those systems are balanced.

[HammerSwarm]

Doubleplusbump.

Amen brother you preach it. I've been waiting for this for a while. I'd like to see some effort to match teams by tonage so that my choice to ride a dragon balances out against them having a cataphract. In no universe are a spider, cicada, dragon, and an awesome equivalent to a raven, centurion, cataphract, and an atlas.

[Deathlike]

A Steiner lance is the least of your problems on Alpine. It's not having any semblance of a fast mech on your team, that cripples you.

[Khobai]

matchmaker needs to balance light mechs at the very least. light mechs give a huge advantage on certain maps.

[Nightcrept]

I believe the mm should consider not only elo score but also weight class and ecm.

The ecm mechs need to b considered by their class as well.

The reason as I see it is that each of the ecm mechs are played differently. So a ecm ddc should not b used to balance against a ecm com2d and vice versa.