Time continues to press on, and the same general trends continue. Naturally, they’ll take slightly longer to get matches, but not too much longer. This means that the highest ranked people can only pull about 75% of the players now (probably slightly more since not everyone in tier 3 will be at the top of tier 3). Since the highest ranked people are in tier 3, they are unable to pull most of the people in tier 1 (an exception would be someone high in tier 1 matching with someone low in tier 3). Taking inventory of where the various groups are: With that out of the way, let’s get in to how the matchmaking system in Pirate101 works.
#PIRATE101 CENTRAL SHIP PVP FULL#
Since all matchups are done between players of the same level and all matchups are done in 1v1, players will only be able to pull opponents within approximately 2 full tiers (100 or fewer points in each direction) of their own due to the restrictions KI has put in place. This is the most important assumption and it follows from the preceding ones.Players can only pull opponents within 2 full “tiers” of their own.
I’m going to do away with the names of each rank level (contender, brawler, champion, etc) and assume there are 8 “tiers” of 50 points each (Tier 1 is 0-49, Tier 2 50-99, Tier 3 100-149, … ,Tier 8 350-400) The only thing that matters to this model is the amount of rank points a player has.If people boost to 200-300 rank THEN attempt to rank in 1v1 legitimately from there, it messes with the model.This model assumes all Royale matches are illegitimate (boosting). The total rank gained by players in legitimate Battle Royales nowadays is near zero.This makes it harder to rank up if you continuously pull lower rank foes. You gain fewer points for beating people much higher than you. Unlike wiz, where all matches net 16 rank for the winner, Pirate PvP follows an ELO system.As the separation between opponents increases, the amount of points a higher ranked opponent will receive from winning decreases.Since the season is 90 days and there is no leaderboard, there’s no real reason to continue beyond 400 rank currently. This is another stark contrast from wiz.People always stop when they hit 400 rank (Champion).While there might be some people doing PvP at say, level 60-65 for the memes (and the system may occasionally glitch and give you a player below level 10 with no rank), the amount is negligible and can be ignored. Thus, the low level + high rank VS high level + low rank matchups that occur frequently in Wiz cannot occur in Pirate. Unlike in Wiz, Pirate doesn’t have an active low or mid-level PvP.Before I explain the matchmaking process/algorithm, my model first requires a few assumptions: I’m going to give an in depth explanation of Pirate101 matchmaking, discuss why the current matchmaking system is inherently flawed, and offer solutions that could fix it.
As someone who has avidly competed in Ranked PvP on multiple characters and rank ranges in the past 8 seasons, I feel that I have as good a knowledge of the queue as anyone. While that’s true, the whole story goes a lot deeper than that.
The common explanation is that “there aren’t enough people playing”, particularly at high ranks. I’m sure that anyone who’s done PvP in Pirate101 and has gotten beyond 200 rank has run into the issue of being unable to pull matches in an efficient time frame.
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