Return of Reckoning

agemennon675 wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:06 am

Foltestik wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 7:09 am the new city contribution system is strange:(
we have 6 man in city with same pug with us, our party was top 1 and 2 in dps and dbs, top 1 and 2 in heal and top 1 and 2 in protection.
all 3 stages was tank and heals from 1 to 4 in contribution (all 4 just in diferent position in diferent stage) but dps was around 20 (my self was 19, 20 and 24)

Probably death count plays a big role in city siege contribution(at least thats my guess), so if you actively play and die alot in a losing match you get less contri from others that just go afk at the spawn. Apart from that there is also a big RNG factor so your roll might just be unlucky too.

wargrimnir wrote: Wed Dec 16, 2020 11:47 pm Regarding MMR, as I've had this conversation more than once.

We use Glicko2 to calculate MMR. This isn't some hacky thing we made up on our own. http://glicko.net/glicko/glicko2.pdf
The pre-season has reset MMR, your addons did not.
You will see large swings in MMR until you get a couple dozen matches played.
You CAN lose MMR while winning a match, this can also swing largely in your first couple of matches.
If you keep playing, your MMR will stabilize and results will be more reasonable.

Additionally, if you don't like MMR, then ignore it. There are several constants about ranked matches that might be more desirable than standard matches.

MMR does not, despite the unfortunate moniker, result in matchmade games the majority of the time. This is because the majority of the time, there are not enough people queued in different MMR brackets to reasonably fill out matchmade matches. Instead what happens is the system makes a best attempt with the people currently in the scenario pool, then fills in the rest of the spots with anyone leftover.

You still get 2-2-2 pure PvP matches, they're not guaranteed to be balanced by MMR or even significantly influenced by MMR. MMR for our purposes is almost strictly for ranking where you stand among everyone else.

MMR is also for gear prices, but that gear is such a marginal upgrade from the prior set it's really just there as a carrot for completionists. You'll get it eventually if you play.

Opeteh wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 4:16 pm Was it intentional that you cannot buy Triumphant Medals (gear too probably) due to "No season is currently active. You are unable to purchase this item"?

dalen wrote: Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:58 pm there's a Rating Deviation that starts high and will lower with more matches played. It basically represents how certain the system is about your rating, very uncertain at first, which leads to big swings, but after seeing lots of matches it becomes more and more certain about your rating and the adjustments will be smaller.