Hourglass needs to add a better sbmm. if an issue is that there are not enough people to make tighter level/skill brackets, there should be a toggle that can let the player chose between loading straight into an hourglass match with basically anyone or to wait a potentially longer time to battle someone on a much closer faction level, rather than how it is now, where a level 50 or 60 can go against level 100, 300, and 500 plus with no choice about it.
Hourglass sbmm
you can have the best sbmm in the world, but if the player base is small, it's useless.
The proportion of players who play HG is extremely small. So it's purely mathematical.
What's more, you have to make a choice: you want a quick fight or to spend 1h30 underwater waiting for a player of your level to choose to fight too.Personally, i'd prefer to just have a blacklist option where you yourself, can vote to never encounter a certain ship again in battle (or player) knowing this will likely make you wait longer for a match but also mean you can eliminate matchups you dont feel will ever be fair.
it also means cheaters would quickly lose any findable matches when everyone blacklists them after a single fight.
it does come with the vulnerability that the wait time for just a skilled player is increased though if everyone currently online blacklists them from being a matchup.
Also your faction level != Skill Level You can get to the curses just through powering through patiently loss farming or getting the wins that come easier if your opponent plays too recklessly.
there should be a toggle that can let the player chose between loading straight into an hourglass match with basically anyone or to wait a potentially longer time to battle someone on a much closer faction level
Nobody will ever pick. Longer wait time. They tried that in the past. Nobody…nobody wanted to wait for a “instant pvp”
This isn’t some comp fight where your team is out against another team by same level. Levels are “time spent grinding” not skill
And the skill in this game is flux. It changes rapidly based on, your playstyle, if you know how to counter curses, your own aim and the server your on.
4 out of 5
