After about 10-12 games, I am.....at the exact same number, 650. I feel like I am wasting my fucking time. Blueberrys are really stupid, hey that guy has a rocket, let's bunch up.....I can't even.

Are you talking about Glory rank, or Valor rank? (My Glory rank is pretty close to where it was when I started - in the 400s. That one actually goes up and down accurately based on wins and losses.)

Blueberries are definitely dumb, though. I can say that definitively, because I AM one, sometimes. :)

When I started, I had a 5-streak in non-Competitive (combo of Quickplay and IB). I was a little ways into Heroic. (I'm not sure exactly how far, but it wasn't far. For the sake of easy math, I'm going to assume I was right at the beginning.) I played 15 games in Competitive, here's the Win-Loss progression:

L W W W L L W W W L L L L L W

If this had been a normal week, and I was playing Quickplay, here are the point values for those games:

10 15 20 25 10 10 15 20 25 10 10 10 10 10 15

That's 215 points. Would have gotten me about 2/3 of the way to Fabled.

Because it's a Triple Valor weekend, if I'd been playing straight Quickplay, this is what the point values would have looked like:

30 45 60 75 30 30 45 60 81 30 30 30 30 30 51

657 points (a little more than 3x the original value, because I crossed the barrier into Fabled) - not too shabby.

Because I was getting points for a 5-streak, even though I was losing a lot of games, my ACTUAL values should have been like this:

30 105 105 105 30 30 111 111 111 30 30 30 30 30 120

1008 points (a 53% increase over the Quickplay-only value)

HOWEVER:

I wasn't keeping close track of the value after each game - I just know that after those 15 games, I reset my Valor, meaning I'd increased

1650 points

during this time. That's more than double the regular triple-play progression, and a 64% increase over the BUGGED predicted score.

That's insane.

Yep. I wasn’t keeping good track of my numbers, but I did notice some strange things happening with my Valor rank as I played. I’d win a game, and my Valor score would barely move, then I’d win another and my score would shoot up. I was ranking up so fast that I decided to just not worry about it and enjoy the ride, but I do wish I’d kept better track of my Valor score as I was playing, just so I could try and figure out exactly what was happening.

L W W W L L W W W L L L L L W

If this had been a normal week, and I was playing Quickplay, here are the point values for those games:

10 15 20 25 10 10 15 20 25 10 10 10 10 10 15

That's 215 points. Would have gotten me about 2/3 of the way to Fabled.

Because it's a Triple Valor weekend, if I'd been playing straight Quickplay, this is what the point values would have looked like:

30 45 60 75 30 30 45 60 81 30 30 30 30 30 51

657 points (a little more than 3x the original value, because I crossed the barrier into Fabled) - not too shabby.

Because I was getting points for a 5-streak, even though I was losing a lot of games, my ACTUAL values should have been like this:

30 105 105 105 30 30 111 111 111 30 30 30 30 30 120

1008 points (a 53% increase over the Quickplay-only value)

HOWEVER:

I wasn't keeping close track of the value after each game - I just know that after those 15 games, I reset my Valor, meaning I'd increased

1650 points

during this time. That's more than double the regular triple-play progression, and a 64% increase over the BUGGED predicted score.

That's insane.

I don't get the math, but I'm not arguing. :)

Oft repeated activities or circumstances do that to you. It’s why you should mix up your commute periodically to avoid tunnel vision and dangerous lost time.

My ADHD doesn't help much either! :p

They probably can't fix it before triple valor turns off tomorrow morning, though, so I'm gonna exploit the hell out of it. :)

I played a few games before work ttgis morning, after grinding the living hell outta the Competitive playlist all weekend. I’m on a win streak and 1 win away from hitting 2100.

I have time for 1 last game before work. So naturally, matchmaking decides to put me together with 2 other randos, and throw us shorthanded against a party of 4, several of whom were already using Luna’s Howl.

/headdesk

Why can I remember some random detail from a 4 month old twab, and I can't remember to put my kids water bottle in her backpack in the morning?

I'm just now realizing that I forgot to do the same thing today, lol

Back in Warmind Bungie rolled out some changes to make matchmaking more fair to singles. Instead of seperate matchmaking pools they set it so individuals will be treated as a lower skill than pre-made groups. It was in a TWAB somewhere, but my google fu is not serving me well here :). It's been on and off a bit as they've tweaked it, but I believe it is currently active

https://twitter.com/_mantis_/status/997268311623651329?lang=en

EDIT:
Found it!

https://destiny.bungie.org/bwu/220

Derek: From reading your feedback and looking at data, it's clear that solo players are facing an uphill battle in the Crucible when they encounter well-coordinated opponents. Players in Fireteams have a substantial advantage, particularly as average skill increases. In the current Crucible, solo players at virtually all skill levels win fewer than half of their games.

We're making some under-the-hood adjustments to try to ensure that even when solo players do end up fighting against Fireteams, they'll be doing it on a more-even battlefield.

Instead of using your normal skill value when in a Fireteam, we will use a modified value that takes your Fireteam size into account. The larger your Fireteam, the larger the potential modification. We don't want to try to completely nullify the benefit of team-play, so our initial values are conservative and can (and will) be tuned as we see the system working in the wild. All of these settings can be configured on our servers without waiting for a new update, so we'll be able to make additional tweaks based on what we see.

We always encourage you to bring your friends with you into the Crucible, but we think this change will improve your experience during those times you have to fly solo. As always, we'll be keeping an eye on how well these changes are working once they're live, and look forward to hearing your thoughts!

#FTMM

(Editors note: For those like me who didn't understand this hashtag immediately, this means Fireteam Matchmaking.)

This explains a lot.

https://twitter.com/_mantis_/status/997268311623651329?lang=en

EDIT:
Found it!

https://destiny.bungie.org/bwu/220

Derek: From reading your feedback and looking at data, it's clear that solo players are facing an uphill battle in the Crucible when they encounter well-coordinated opponents. Players in Fireteams have a substantial advantage, particularly as average skill increases. In the current Crucible, solo players at virtually all skill levels win fewer than half of their games.

We're making some under-the-hood adjustments to try to ensure that even when solo players do end up fighting against Fireteams, they'll be doing it on a more-even battlefield.

Instead of using your normal skill value when in a Fireteam, we will use a modified value that takes your Fireteam size into account. The larger your Fireteam, the larger the potential modification. We don't want to try to completely nullify the benefit of team-play, so our initial values are conservative and can (and will) be tuned as we see the system working in the wild. All of these settings can be configured on our servers without waiting for a new update, so we'll be able to make additional tweaks based on what we see.

We always encourage you to bring your friends with you into the Crucible, but we think this change will improve your experience during those times you have to fly solo. As always, we'll be keeping an eye on how well these changes are working once they're live, and look forward to hearing your thoughts!

#FTMM

(Editors note: For those like me who didn't understand this hashtag immediately, this means Fireteam Matchmaking.)

After losing three games in a row last night, I switched to my low level Titan and played a bunch of Quickplay. I dropped from the kid 1100s to the low 600s in Glory the past few days. I’m trying not to just focus on the gun grind, because I genuinely had fun this weekend, even during the bad losing streaks. I’m enjoying Crucible more than ever before, and I do like the competitive nature in Comp quite a bit. I’m actually really excited to see Trials return. I just perform better when I have a strong player to take the lead. Even though I enjoyed it all, it’s still demoralizing to see my Glory rank cut basically in half.