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[armyof1]

I started to play a Cent recently since I was getting bored with my sniping Dragon, and it's wild wild west out there when I do that. Huge swings in unbalanced teams both in skill and weight. Lots of times I get a real lightweight matchup where we have like 3 lights, 2 meds, one assault and 2 heavies, while we face 3-4 heavies, assaults and one light. It seems like going with a medium in my Cent throws the matchmaker into confusion and it has no idea what to do. When I go with my Dragon I get matches quicker and I seldom see as huge differences in weight. These hugely unbalanced matches with my Cent occurs even when the matchmaker toss me into a game within 30 secs or so.

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armyof1, on 12 May 2013 - 01:08 AM, said:

I started to play a Cent recently since I was getting bored with my sniping Dragon, and it's wild wild west out there when I do that. Huge swings in unbalanced teams both in skill and weight. Lots of times I get a real lightweight matchup where we have like 3 lights, 2 meds, one assault and 2 heavies, while we face 3-4 heavies, assaults and one light. It seems like going with a medium in my Cent throws the matchmaker into confusion and it has no idea what to do. When I go with my Dragon I get matches quicker and I seldom see as huge differences in weight. These hugely unbalanced matches with my Cent occurs even when the matchmaker toss me into a game within 30 secs or so.

Since ELO is different between weight class, it's not surprising. Perhaps your medium ELO is vastly different from your heavy ELO.

Kanatta Jing, on 12 May 2013 - 12:49 AM, said:

I don't know. When I play my Cataphract 4X it's all assault and high damage sniping. There might by one light or one medium on the whole team.

When I play my Raven It's all lights and honorary lights with only a hand full of heavy and assaults thrown in.

I wonder where the medium are though. Do they all hang out together?

Well, in my current play with the Cents, I've seen a lot more interesting stuff that happens.

I've gotten groups where I'm the "fastest mech on the field"... so I have to rely on the Steiner Lances to do the dirty work.

I've also gotten light mech swarms where I try to participate in the mayhem. It's glorious when the enemy doesn't know what to do with you.

I've also seen a bunch of Cent-bombs and Wangs...

When I was in an Assault (Stalker was the last one I went through) or my "OP" ECM bird, I see a lot less diversity. You know exactly what you're going to get and when you get it.

I would hazard a guess that mediums are treated differently, because they may actually be calculated differently somehow, except the "role warfare" that is anticipated for that class isn't actually "working as intended".