I wouldn't get too upset, a lot of competitive players don't really start ramping up their efforts until the last few days of the month. 850 score won't even get you in the top 100 come end of month. I finished on 902 last month and it wasn't enough to make the cut.

Ranking system. The better you do/play the more likely it becomes that you are matched more with equally higher ranked players and matched less with people that are consistently at the bottom of the table. Now, if you really wanted to avoid getting match with players at the top of the table frequently, you could manipulate this by conceding a ton of games when you're on or near zero as you don't go into negative scores - but many people would argue this is against the spirit of the game.

Yes, I'll go on big win streaks and even bigger losing streaks. Often times it almost feels like the Tavern decides early on who it wants to win, such as seeing your opponent get favorable card after favorable card and you get garbage.

I have no idea, some days it feels like the RNG is totally working against you, on other days it‘s working for you. I know, that’s the meaning of random, but it‘s just so ridiculous sometimes. After dropping to #142 as I said above, I made it to #9 again yesterday.

Today I lost 95% of my battles and my win:lose ratio now is 40:60. I lost ten battles in a row, then I did win two and lost another 8 in a row. This just feels so fabricated. It‘s so weird to have days like where you lose almost every match, either if you starting first or second. I dropped from #9 to #187, just that you know how absurd this is.

I really have no way to properly explain this, but it’s so funny when you just set up two tanks, the enemy has barely any power cards and yet in the tavern the new card that pops up is the kill two agents for 3 Coin. Or that the opponent could solely win with a turning all patrons and then they get two Tithe cards in the tavern one after another. Like…?

Yes, again, this is what random means, but this feels like the computer sabotaging a clear win. These scenarios happened like three times to me alone today and every time I‘m just left with my mouth open because it‘s just so unreal and ridiculous. I‘m sure all of you know these situations where you have the feeling that you have two opponents and not just one.

DragonRacer wrote: »

Yes, I'll go on big win streaks and even bigger losing streaks. Often times it almost feels like the Tavern decides early on who it wants to win, such as seeing your opponent get favorable card after favorable card and you get garbage.

This is exactly what I mean. I had like two or three matches today alone where I could not buy any tavern card because I had never enough coin whereas the opponent somehow always managed to get the favorable draw and stack up on tavern cards. It often really feels like that the winner based on tavern luck is decided early on and then you either play along and lose or you concede because there‘s no way you could win.

And when I see players that always pick Crow and then waste 20 coins to buy crap cards instead of turning the Crow patron for an easy win it’s so obvious that they are not winning because they know how to play the game, they’re winning because they are lucky. I know this might sound salty, but these are clearly the differences between a player that knows how to play the game and a player that does not.