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[Divine Retribution]

Or you've fallen up the elo ladder. If your team seems to become progressively worse, and the enemy team seems to keep getting better, then your elo is likely going higher. When there's no one around your skill level looking for a game is when tragedy strikes: a couple good players with a bunch of terrible players vs. a bunch of average players.

If your elo is going up, and continues to do so, eventually you just won't find matches when pugging. The 1-2 games an hour you do find will either have most players around your skill level (a rarity), or an absolute travesty (you and possibly another good player or 2 + assorted fodder vs. 1-2 tryhard lances and a couple of pugs).

If you go out of your way to lose repeatedly for a bit, I bet your average teammate skill level will improve. And as always, the matchmaker is kind of borked unless you are in the middle of the curve.

[King Arthur IV]

DarkDevilDancer, on 15 December 2013 - 07:31 AM, said:

Mate NA prime time isn't the time to play try playing with us in europe and you'll get a higher quality of players, i wont play after 22:30 GMT its far too frustrating.

when is EU prime time and how can i get in touch with clans and corps??

[Tylerchu]

I feel like some of those players might have been me.

Anyhow, a question: Is the alpha lance always the 'best' players statistically? And is that the reason why I've only been out of Charlie twice ever?

[Greyboots]

JigglyMoobs, on 14 December 2013 - 03:43 PM, said:

The funny thing is that I was playing at what I thought was the NA prime time.

Prime time is the worst for ELO. It's full of a bunch of casual players with no real idea of what they are doing. You might do great that day, you might do ok, or you might do terrible. IT's got nothing to do with you, just who the MAtchmaker decides to put you with.

Look, I have 2 accounts and this is one of the main reasons. One account is just for dropping with fun builds and it's ELO averages "ok". Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse but in the end it doesn't really matter. I'm just running builds that are fun rather than designed to win. When school gets out or prime time hits, I swap to it and just play silly buggers for a while. It's fun enough and the fact that ELO is of no consequence puts as little chance for disappointment in as possible.

My other account? It only drops with a group of friends and we only drop outside of prime time. We win the majority of our matches BUT most of them are also quite close. Rare is the roflstomp and it's always due to tactical advantages, not a small group of newbies rushing out to be "the hero" and similar shenanigans.

I heartily suggest 2 accounts. You don't have to have a lot of cBills or any special mechs to run "fun" builds. A free account will do fine (though extra mechbays might be a good idea).

[Nuclear Weapon]

Well, I have seen a few ppl uninstalling, some others stop playing and some others just started playing new games.

My guess is that there's less and less players at that time, so ELO will make 1 regular grp vs YOU and a bunch of bad pilots xD


On a new account I played against my "regular ELO bracket" a few times.
On a "not so new one" I play against the same bracket more often, I only have 3 Jenners on this account and 2 modules. Go figure what's Match Maker doing.