Please solve the ranked matchmaking, it is very bad, I always get weak teammates and stronger enemy players.
The matches that I get are not balanced at all, this is not fun, please solve this issue.
how inclusive and welcoming
on side note, the fact that matchmaking can match gold and silver players with diamond and conqueror players should by itself be a red flag of system’s flaws as it currently is
Would you prefer less balanced matches but shorter queues, but (often much) longer queues but better matches?
(obviously it’s possible to still get bad matches after a long queue, but “faster but worse” and “longer but better” tends to be the main metrics in affecting results)
lets say it’d be fine by me to have silver be able to match with bronze or gold players, so 1 tier up and down (including all 3 in between in league tiers)
plenty of players in that range to match up
It’s not an unreasonable suggestion. But it would lengthen times. It also excessively impacts those in higher leagues, which means you need more staff to handle smurfing reports (because you know it’ll happen).
You see this when big games see their numbers shrink from “massive” to “still pretty darn big”. Queue times always go up. I saw this with freaking Overwatch. AoE IV’s numbers are good, but in the greater scheme of things r.e. worldwide matchmaking, it’s very easy to constrain matches by imposing rules.
(assuming matchmaking itself isn’t bugged and is contributing unduly to queue times or MMR calculations)
The first thing i learnt in pickup ranked multiplayer is : you can’t blame others for your weakness.
The second is : if you are bored to play in solo Q in v3 or v4, make a team with people and go vocal, you will never more suffer the gods of RNG.
The third, is if anyway you want to force your destiny by going solo in the big Capernaum of v4, you have to carry every game and be the best no matter what happens.
With these lines of conduct, i achieved multiple times diamond 1 minimum with 75% of civs in the game in both solo Q multiplayer and pre made team.
If you want to progress, play with mates or play in 1v1. If you don’t want to improve your gameplay in first, you don’t understand how multiplayer ranked works. It’s not only about the player’s draft. Abuse effective strats and violent solo civs that can make a diff (mongol, french, lancaster, japanese, Rus…KT). Peel your mates or aim to eliminate one guy fast (this alone works 90% times). Be ready to die and retry. A fact that i saw for the 3 or 4 lasts seasons is that even average players (which i played against and with) with high amount of games can achieve at least to reach diamond to conq ranks with large amount of games. That means, if we do the maths, that after few hundreds of games, the matchmaking does not count anymore and if you’re good you’re >50.1% winrate.