[master] War opponent has more players (Uneven players on battlefield)

[JonahTheBard]

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Hi @Vicjoaid this isn’t a bug, just imperfect matchmaking. Here’s the staff response on the issue that Zeph posted on a separate thread.

@zephyr1

@General_Confusion

You would have to search the forums for the place where this was talked about.

Here you go, all straight from the CTO:

@mhalttu

Matchmaking is based on the top 30 heroes of each player with extra weight on the top five heroes. The maximum member difference between alliances is currently limited to three.

@mhalttu

If we allow even smaller member count differences, the score difference between the matched alliances will be bigger. With that said, we have plans to AB test configurations where the maximum member difference is between zero and three.

@mhalttu

We actually allow a maximum member difference of 3 but we give a “penalty” to the war score for every difference in member counts. In other words, we strongly prefer matches with same member counts. We haven’t adjusted those numbers since summer. I’ll drop a note to the team to at least consider if we could or should make the formula slightly less strict, i.e. penalize member differences slightly less in the matchmaking.

@mhalttu

Just FYI: I double checked how the member limit works. It’s not an absolute 3 but based on the percentage of members in the alliance. Theoretically the difference can be as high as five members for an alliance of 30 members, but it is extremely unlikely to happen due to the scoring penalty I mentioned above.

You can discuss the matter by searching for some of the major war matchmaking threads.