Again, I don't have that problem. Maybe 1% of the time something crazy like that happens, but that's within tolerance. But I agree, it does suck when that happens, but it's just a game and doesn't bother me. I still have fun playing and move on to the next match. Maybe your K/D is better than most and that makes it more difficult for SBMM to find equally skilled opponents for you to play against. Who knows? We don't even know what percentage split Bungie uses for SBMM & CBMM. 60/40, 50/50, 40/60...I haven't seen that information detailed anywhere by any credible source. Maybe you play more off-peak hours when there's less people online in the US, which makes SBMM match you up with opponents in another market/Country? If you have an average K/D close to 1.0 AND you play during peak hours, then you should be fine. Even if you have a higher than average K/D and you play during peak hours, you should have non-laggy matches the majority of the time. There's plenty of really good players in every major market (US, EU, Asia, etc...). And I'm not saying SBMM isn't part of the problem, but I don't think it's as bad as people make it out to be. P2P connections is the main culprit, IMO.

I don't have that problem playing during peak hours of the day. Off-peak hours, sure, there's some laggers in the match. But I'd rather play against equally skilled non-laggy opponents during peak hours than to play against people who are way better than me or way worse than me all the time. And you're welcome, whether or not it was a sarcastic response. Some people don't truly understand how the Internet works, so the more people I can educate, the better off we'll be as a community.

I understand where you're coming from, and Bungie will never be able to make everyone happy. It would be prohibitively expensive for Bungie to build and maintain a global network of dedicated servers. I'm almost positive cost was the reason they went with P2P; it's a much cheaper solution to maintain. I loved CoD: AW. It was one of my favorite CoD's. I loved the fast movement speeds and jumping all over the place. The verticality was awesome, it felt less linear. I'm sure SBMM is a part of the "problem", as it's an integral piece of the equation. But I don't feel like it's as big of a problem as most do. I feel like P2P has much worse effects on connection quality than SBMM. And your K/D most likely didn't drop entirely due to connection problems. It probably dropped because you were being matched up more often with equally skilled players. I'm not saying connection was not a factor, but I'm willing to bet being matched up with equally skilled players had a bigger impact than SBMM. My K/D isn't really all that bad, when compared to the everyone who plays. Sure, I'm not in the top 10%, but that doesn't mean I'm a bad player. My best is 31 kills with a 20 kill streak, which is really good. My K/D is a .88 at the moment, but it's getting better every month. I'm constantly working towards a positive K/D, and I don't have much further to go. But that's besides the point, and off topic. I understand your point of view. It's true that if you have a really high K/D, you represent a smaller percentage of the player base. So SBMM will probably make it more difficult for players with higher K/Ds such as yourself to find solid matches (depending on the time of day, peak or non-peak hours). But it's only fair to the player base as a whole that people be matched up with equally skilled opponents. The only person that benefits from getting destroyed is the destroyer. It's not fun to always be the opponent getting destroyed. I know is seems sucky from your end because you probably enjoy being the destroyer, but that's just not how the game was meant to be played. Bungie has said many times they want PvP K/Ds to be close to 1.0 across the board.

Destiny PvP is pretty bad, but it's better now than it was when The Taken King first came out. It's been worse over the past few days, but before that last patch went live it was really good.

Please look at the 'Introduction' section in the article below. It basically shows you how it all works. There's too many uncontrollable variables in P2P connected matches. There's no way the netcode can fix that. With P2P based online multiplayer, everyone suffers if someone is lagging. With dedicated servers, only the lagger suffers. Plus, it's easy to program dedicated server systems to match people based on ping times. CBMM takes priority over SBMM, but it's still broken due to P2P. I play late at night because of the hours I work, so when the majority of the players in the U.S. are in bed, I'm up playing and getting matched with people in Europe and elsewhere in the world because that's where more people are online. If it was dedicated servers, it would not be so bad. It would take longer for me to find a match, because the server in Europe or wherever would have to match me with players with a similar ping time, but that would be fine and more fair. [url]http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/building-a-peer-to-peer-multiplayer-networked-game--gamedev-10074[/url]