Respectfully disagree (Destiny)

by CougRon, Auburn, WA, USA, Sunday, September 06, 2015, 18:06 (3462 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

One of the things I noticed during our curb stomping is that when the games ended a lot of the opposing teams were completing their cards with the win. This means they already had multiple victories under their belts. Just psychologically that gives them a huge edge against a winless team like we were. It's very hard to learn winning strategies when you get stomped so hard that nothing works.

Bungie has said that Trials prioritizes connection, what if it also emphasized wins on your trials cards? No complicated skill matching formulas, just victories on your card--8 victory team going against another 8 victory team. It is implied that getting to the lighthouse is supposed to be a demanding 'trial' that only those who persevere can obtain--but being randomly matched up with teams that have no chance against you doesn't seem like much of a trial. If you're sufficiently skilled enough to beat the occasional good teams and randomness goes your way you can be matched with enough bad teams to easily win it all. For teams like ours, I think matching by wins means the better teams would naturally bubble up making it more likely we could be matched against someone we might actually beat and get a few victories under our belt now and then. maybe enough to learn what strategies are pretty good and improve for next time. When nothing works you don't learn much and you lose any desire to play after a while.