Do Imperials still like to war?

[DravenTheWicked]

MAtchmaking has been completely skewed in almost all of the past 10 wars we’ve been in, squad death_disciples, Empire. I’m talking we’re a squad of a few 3 prestige and handful of 9s 8s and it matches us against full prestige squads a majority of the time. Anyone else having problems?

[sgu97cab]

Having a few Prestige in the squad generally results in you drawing prestige opponents.
Also if you have any players on much higher medals than rest of the squad will also contribute to a mismatch. You are better off having all members similar level and similar medals for war.

[TKTB51]

so it's now matched our #803 squad with Skyfire, #96.

Avg base score in war: them roughly 3200, ours under 2100

This matching algorithm is a fucking piece of shit that needs to be launched into the sun. Why do we have 3 prestige bases against their 15?

Who thinks this is "fun"? Not me, not my #2 player/lieutenant who is expressing extreme frustration with this.

[Spiff]

The no outposts is a player-created thing and is not 100% guaranteed.

It's maybe 98% guaranteed since the Elite and FM squads merged into one league. I'm in 2 No OP squads, and we almost never miss with matchmaking.

[GAT]

I prefer no op since at lvl6 I can crush solid lvl8 bases so with op it gets really stupid.

[Drks]

Some guys (of both factions) jump in 3 or 4 différents squads! Not an illusion!

EDIT:

Could see them on line chat!

[MachineHead]

Last war for me takes 9hours for matching...87 imps vs 4 reb squads (Wednsday 9pm gmt)

Also the other wars since february i think were with long time of waiting and bad luck for our squad in the end...
Last year and first wars in January was imediatly matched and more or less fair!

[Shotojoe]

We are a fairly new squad of IMPs, hq4-9 at the moment, 20 of us, all active and we war back to back 3-4 times a week.
Not all of us are dead!

[lukeskywalker]

MAtchmaking has been completely skewed in almost all of the past 10 wars we’ve been in, squad death_disciples, Empire. I’m talking we’re a squad of a few 3 prestige and handful of 9s 8s and it matches us against full prestige squads a majority of the time. Anyone else having problems?

If you look at the war queue on gsow.net and also from experience, there are obvious faction imbalances in terms of total squads and there's also a mix issue. The Imperial squads skew younger or basically the imbalances in overall squad numbers are at the lower end. New players/squads. That means that any squad having just 1 or 2 Prestige players in the mix, get matched upward in general. If you enter a rebel squad with level 10 and below, especially with a mix between level 4 and 10, and medal counts below 10K will find tons of matchups on the Imperial side. That mix is the majority of the Imperial squads in the war queue.

That said, any squad that has at least 6 players level 9 to 10, can at least tie the opposition, as long as the rest of the squad knows how to handle outposts. Honestly, most of the outposts are a joke. Dandoran, Yavin, Er'kit and Hoth are very easy to take. Hoth especially. If Takodana or Tatooine are in play, getting a 45-45 tie with an all Prestige squad is very doable. Most of these all Prestige squads are a mix of full Prestige and rushed Prestige. Only the top 100 squads will be tough to tie or beat, even with a mismatch on paper. The rushed Prestige bases grade out to level 9's and 10's in most cases. A level 9 player with Takodana or Tatooine outposts in hand, can take down any base short of a maxed out Prestige base. If that player has high level MTT's, ITT's or A5's, then they will have a 50/50 shot of taking down a full Prestige base. Yavin also helps in that regard, since starships can do so much damage with that outpost.