reluctanttheist, on 15 February 2018 - 05:35 AM, said:
Hey Ribble
There's a long time argument on the forums that MM makes games more difficult for players over a number of games. The idea behind this is that MM looks at the skill of the players on the teams and puts higher-skilled players on the opposing team to make it harder for you to win.
There are other players who have read before that MM does NOT analyze player skill, but may in fact place you as low-tier to offer you a greater challenge in a certain percentage of games that you play. In this scenario, MM remembers how often you are low tier / high tier and manipulates how often you are low or high tier.
Finally, there's those who believe that MM is entirely random, and that MM simply grabs you and your tank to make up the team needed at that very millisecond that MM starts building teams for the next match for which you're available.
Who's right, and who's buying the other guys a beer? If you can answer this question, I will heartily thank you!
here is my bet : you have an oversimplified view of the situation.
i have personally believed that the game is rigged in some ways from even before I was 10 000 games in, That was 2014 then... and I’m 50.000 now. I have since undergone tests spanning hundreds of games. The results are very difficult to interpret, and when they are clear, they either lack good description of the mechanics, or the exposed mechanics has nothing to do with winning or game difficulty. So in my results I have unticked some boxes as mere impressions... and I found things that were past the disturbing threshold. But in most cases what i found was lacking what is needed to support the main claim.
What I took out from these tests is that the game easily starts to make oneself paranoid. And I think a game or movie shaking ur psycho should immediately receive a good rating. Maximal, i mean. . And that if the game is rigged, it is not in the sense or with the tools that most people are willing to think of.
And I agree with above, rigged might not be as good of a word as “weighted” is. Using “weight” might get us in a more conclusive debate, but I have only faint hopes of being able to have the word rigged abandoned lol... maybe I should start using it myself ?
now to the people who think unicums are artificially pushed up, while their demise isn’t due to a lack of skills and understanding of the game ... <<<<< delusional award. W o r k H a r d e r A n d G o o d L u c k .
Edited by minitel_NA, 15 February 2018 - 06:44 AM.