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[JernauM]

I am curious to know if the EU server launch has had any effect on the average ELO spread of matches. My concern is that many players may have chosen to play only on one server or the other. If true, this may have further thinned the matchmaking pools, leading to less evenly-matched games.

I guess this may be hard to judge at the moment with the European Takeover event going on for the past week or so.

[stjobe]

I don't know about anyone else, but I've played on the NA server for three years, and while I do get a better ping on the EU server (45 or so vs 110-120 on the NA), I'm not going to uncheck the NA server.

I'll leave it up to the matchmaker to decide which server to place me on.

Edited by stjobe, 31 July 2015 - 07:57 AM.

[DaZur]

Horse apiece... Statistically I'm not seeing any notible difference between the two save pings. Which incidentally are only 100 points different and I quite honestly don't "feel" a difference.

[Deathlike]

I'm kinda leaning towards MM is worse when you're limiting yourself to a server.

The wait times simply increase as a related result. Matches on the whole aren't that much different though.

However, if you don't care for the wait... then it is what it is.

Edited by Deathlike, 31 July 2015 - 08:16 AM.

[DaZur]

Deathlike, on 31 July 2015 - 08:16 AM, said:

The wait times simply increase as a related result. Matches on the whole aren't that much different though.

However, if you don't care for the wait... then it is what it is.

Obviously it's completely subjective but when I deselected one server versus another (So I could maximize hitting a challenge goal) even with a disparity of balance between their respective load... I can't say my wait-times were grossly different between the two.

Clearly my Elo has a bit to do with it as I suspect I'm still paddling in the deeper middling pool and not the shallow polar extremes.

[Elizander]

I fought an LRM Atlas with machine guns on EU.

[Deathlike]

DaZur, on 31 July 2015 - 08:24 AM, said:

Obviously it's completely subjective but when I deselected one server versus another (So I could maximize hitting a challenge goal) even with a disparity of balance between their respective load... I can't say my wait-times were grossly different between the two.

Clearly my Elo has a bit to do with it as I suspect I'm still paddling in the deeper middling pool and not the shallow polar extremes.

To be fair, the MM had decided to put me in NA games... naturally. However, once I had to get specific, the wait times were noticeable.

I got this done 2 days in advance, so now I have to pick up the remains of the Shadowcat builds...

[TWIAFU]

Deathlike, on 31 July 2015 - 08:16 AM, said:

I'm kinda leaning towards MM is worse when you're limiting yourself to a server.

The wait times simply increase as a related result. Matches on the whole aren't that much different though.

However, if you don't care for the wait... then it is what it is.

Well, we know EU has better skilled players then NA. So, I play EU for better games with better players. If I want easy money, play NA.

[Joseph Mallan]

22 matches over 30 points

somewhere over 30 Matches played.

Id say it balanced out the Elo a bit more. Of my 22 games Maybe 11 were wins!

[Deathlike]

TWIAFU, on 31 July 2015 - 08:38 AM, said:

Well, we know EU has better skilled players then NA. So, I play EU for better games with better players. If I want easy money, play NA.

That, I would completely dispute.

[DaZur]

Deathlike, on 31 July 2015 - 10:10 AM, said:

That, I would completely dispute.

Kind'a what I was thinking...

Completely un-qualified but in general I tend to get more kills on the EU server while actually netting more consistent team wins on NA.

[KHETTI]

I find match making to be of low quality on both servers.
I get a lower ping on the EU server, for now i have NA unchecked , doubt it will stay that way.

Edited by KHETTI, 31 July 2015 - 11:38 AM.

[Bilbo]

I was only getting, maybe, one in four matches on the EU server and my ping to the EU servers was not stable, so I turned it off. Any effect on the MM would be highly dependent on time of day anyway.

[Deathlike]

DaZur, on 31 July 2015 - 11:32 AM, said:

Kind'a what I was thinking...

Completely un-qualified but in general I tend to get more kills on the EU server while actually netting more consistent team wins on NA.

Well, it's not as simple.

I would say playing during the Euro times is that the play is really just different.

For instance, I'd say there's more roflstomps in NA time (giving and getting them). During Euro time, the matches tend to be closer... but in some cases it shouldn't be "as close as it should".

I have a significantly easier time scoring well in Euro time. I'm unsure what exactly causes that, but while "possibly" there is more teamwork (it is kinda easier to get people to do stuff), but the effectiveness skillwise wasn't there. This doesn't mean there aren't any skilled Euro players, but that there are fewer of them. I will say that ping is most certainly a factor for the discrepancy, but it may be more favorable on the Euro servers now (that doesn't mean the skill has changed though).

The quality is much different, so it's not exactly "one is superior"... it's really the context is a whole different story.

Edited by Deathlike, 31 July 2015 - 11:42 AM.