Profile of Grumpy

The lower you are on the ladder, the more probable it is to be matched with a higher skilled opponent. At the same time, this loss will result in a lower ELO adjustment. I am not a computer scientist, but shouldn't the ELO system fix this scewed distribution by estimating the win chances before the game? I always though that this is how it works.

I think the way that the match maker works is that it tries to find games for you with people within a certain range. My guess is that it's something like 0-30, 31-100, 101-300, 300-1000, 1001-3000, You'll get matched quickly if there are enough people in your range. If you don't find a match within a certain length of time, it starts opening up the range. It seems like it is more focused on making sure that people can get games instead of waiting forever. It's a somewhat valid point, as waiting 30 minutes to find a game would bother the legions of casual players more than the mismatches.

I have had active ranks from 17 to 3000+ at the same time. On the 4v4 team that was ranked in the top 20, if we got a match right away then it was another well-ranked team. If the search went a long time, we knew we were going to get worse ranked players.

I don't know how ELO gets adjusted after a match. I don't know what my actual ELO number is, I just see the change in ranking from one game to the next so I can't tell how it makes the changes. I'm sure there is an algorithm but there are too many variables to guess at how it works.

I do think it would really help if Relic introduced Ranked and Unranked like many other online games have. I'd also like to see it so that in order to play ranked, you would have to beat at least a hard computer in a 1v1, or something to that effect.

The other improvement that I'd like would be to give new teams a elo rating based on either the average elo of each individual or their best ELO.

If you look closely 50% of Hell consists of 66.66% of elo

Best use of statistics in this entire thread!

Do you even understand basic statistics? The more the sample size increases the less the outliers affect the overall outcome.

Please stop spouting nonsense.

Um, Rosbone's statement is correct. It's an extreme example of Bayes theorem. You're talking about regression towards the mean which is a concept and not an actual theorem.

After weeks of not having a fun game in random 4v4's, I finally had one. This one was different because it had:

A good UKF player
No obnoxious pinging, toxicity, etc
A late game Allied victory, with random Allies beating a top 200 Axis team.

I got wrecked a bunch, didn't play particularly well, and probably set a record for most Jacksons lost and most models lost but it was still a lot of fun. There are some crazy tank battles. If you want to see some impressive collections of Axis armor, watch around the 55 minute mark when the Axis nearly run the allies off the field. There is a counterattack about 10 minutes later. You can see a Pathfinder getting credit for killing an Elefant. There are a lot of big swings and so it's fun to watch on 8x. There is around 880k damage. There would've been more but I didn't have the manpower to keep feeding them Jacksons.....

[Don't know if this is Balance or Gameplay section]

Why are rear echelon so weak in combat, yet cost 200 MP?

I don't think that RE's have been changed since Relic nerfed them into oblivion back when Relic was doing the balancing. They might have needed a bit of a nerf but even that was debatable. There was one high-level player that was doing RE spam. It was a bit overblown since he probably wasn't beating anyone that he wouldn't have beat anyway. I remember the price got nerfed from 160 to 200 which is crazy. I don't remember what else was changed.

Many people keep bringing up the weapon upgrades. I don't usually find it to be worth the munitions, especially the bazooka. Maybe it's because I usually play 3's or 4's where the bleed from trying to use a RE with bazooka(s) is way too much. If I go Infantry, putting a M1919 on them and either putting them in a house or behind tank traps can be useful.