loroku wrote: Similarly, are PvP events also bracketed (but less obvious about it) or are they against anyone ever?
loroku wrote: When I join a PvE event it will say "Players 200" or "Players 1000." Seems like these are brackets, which is nice considering that otherwise I guess we'd all be up against thousands of other players and just getting smashed constantly by whoever's played the longest. My question is: how are these brackets created? Are they based off a PvE MMR or is it just random or does anyone know?
loroku wrote: Also how are alliances handled re: brackets? Seems like they may not actually be bracketed but it's hard to say. Also since alliance rank seems to be additive instead of percentage-based, I'm guessing the biggest (active) alliances are always at the top? (Not complaining just wondering.)
loroku wrote: Thanks for the info! I wondered if PvE had a kind of MMR as well. I noticed when I did extremely well in one PvE event, the very next one had a bunch of REALLY good players in it - but that could be coincidence. Glad to know that PvP is also bracketed - I'd hate to go against all the top players at once! The alliance thing makes sense as well because at least once I saw that my alliance was X out of like a few hundred thousand. Just wondering if it was like that for all events.
FierceKiwi wrote: loroku wrote: Thanks for the info! I wondered if PvE had a kind of MMR as well. I noticed when I did extremely well in one PvE event, the very next one had a bunch of REALLY good players in it - but that could be coincidence. Glad to know that PvP is also bracketed - I'd hate to go against all the top players at once! The alliance thing makes sense as well because at least once I saw that my alliance was X out of like a few hundred thousand. Just wondering if it was like that for all events. There is a PvE MMR but from my understanding the only thing it really does is effect the scaling you see. It might have a bit of an influence on the bracket you end up in but I've never seen any evidence of that.
rawfsu wrote: How do you attack other players in PvP events? It depends to me every tournament and I wonder how I can do it back?
PPPlaya wrote: FierceKiwi wrote: loroku wrote: Thanks for the info! I wondered if PvE had a kind of MMR as well. I noticed when I did extremely well in one PvE event, the very next one had a bunch of REALLY good players in it - but that could be coincidence. Glad to know that PvP is also bracketed - I'd hate to go against all the top players at once! The alliance thing makes sense as well because at least once I saw that my alliance was X out of like a few hundred thousand. Just wondering if it was like that for all events. There is a PvE MMR but from my understanding the only thing it really does is effect the scaling you see. It might have a bit of an influence on the bracket you end up in but I've never seen any evidence of that. I can definitely confirm that there is also sharding in PvE. Even if you join immediately after a bracket has filled you might find yourself in a bracket with 700/1000 people already.
GrimSkald wrote: I also think that PVP brackets are based on MMR, at least in a very rough sense. Back when I was under a hundred days in, I think in the 50-70 range, I was able to take my budding 2* team, beat all the 1* transition teams (with the occassional 2* team) and get into the top 25 with 300-400 points. Then one day I was seeing nothing but 2* teams and that same 300-400 points was just not cutting it any more. I suspect strongly they have at least two divisions for brackets, say a "kiddie pool" and a "big pond."
kidicarus wrote: It's time we had that talk son.. You see when a mommy bracket and a daddy bracket get together...
Ruinate wrote: Could someone clarify whether you join a sub/event when you open it for the first time or when you win/lose the first mission of the event?