"We’ve seen you backing out of matches on final approach in your ships because you saw formidable opponents on the other team. That tactic could earn you a restriction from future Trials of Osiris events. Please stick it out and fight – even if you know you’re about to be visited by tourists from the Lighthouse." - DeeJ, Weekly Update 6/4/15
I don't give a -blam!-. I don't owe that other team my time. I don't owe them my ass to stomp.
If [i]your[/i] matchmaking system pushes me against a group that severely, [i]obviously[/i] outclasses my group of guys that has yet to get to the Lighthouse, I don't - nor does anybody else - [i]owe[/i] them our deaths.
Our penalty is on our card in the form of the loss we take. If you have a problem with people backing out of these matches, [i]then don't count them as a Win for the other team[/i].
Trials of Osiris has some serious design flaws. [i]Solve them.[/i]
UPDATE: I should have edited this sooner, I apologize. I am aware of the Change Character exploit some folks may have been doing to avoid a loss. I was admittedly fuzzy on this issue when I initially posted. I believe a lot of my argument still stands, however, and, as others have noted in their replies, Trials of Osiris needs something done to its matchmaking. A simple step in matching Lighthouse Veterans to other Lighthouse Veterans, for instance, would do loads of good in evening the competition by placing the Proven against the Proven, and the Aspiring against the Aspiring.
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You never know if you can beat them or not though. During my first game in my first flawless run, we ran into triple lighthousers who were annihilating us, they won 4 rounds in a row. We were really discouraged and started to give up on seeing the lighthouse, but then we made an epic comeback, we won 5 rounds straight. We realised we lost the first 4 rounds because we were rushing in too much, and after we learnt to play strategically, we managed to outsmart them until we won. What I'm saying is, don't be intimidated by whatever they're wearing, they've never played against you, at least give it a shot at beating them. If you don't want to give them an easy win, wouldn't you rather make them struggle for their win, than just give it to them by quitting?