Imbalanced matches - an idea

[ColonelSheppard]

At the moment a lot of games are completely unbalanced. Let's face it, ~1000 rating guy vs ZLO isnt fun. For neither of them. So what about this.
Beside the GW rank you get for example a small color point next to your name which indicates the skill level.
For example:

0-500 Grey
500 - 1000 Green
1000 - 1300 Bronze
1300 - 1600 Silver
1600 - 2000 Gold
2000 - 2400 Platin

Now, a lower rated guy can decide to not play a platin guy.
In order to not promote noobbashing there must be something to prevent high level players to farm the noobs they can now identify. For example: If there are other atacks with higher rank players, the high level player gets a message alà "we need your skills elsewhere, let's the rekruts take this noob".

Is anything like this planned? Do you think it's a good idea?

[Supremegod]

i like it galactic war does need a balancing system that allows good battles, which are fair, it would also prevent brand new players being attacked by more veteran players.

[Stranger]

Think something like that could be a good idea, although the anonymity thing is cool it does also lead to imba games. I guess some of it is addressed by the intelligence idea, spotting players, tagging who they actually are etc, but certainly I feel completely useless. Played a dozen games and identified 3 different players that I'd fought, all were at 1500 -1800 and I'm about 1K (but over-rated at 1K), lost all the games them badly and so I'm actually a liability to my team. Given the ratio of better players the only use I can be in GW to put attacks on hold for other people.

[Swkoll]

I think this would encourage pros to defend against noobs in order to get free wins.

[ColonelSheppard]

like i say in the first post this must be prevented by not allowing them to defend noobs or getting a penalty for it

[Golol]

how about reaching high ranks is actually hard?
that means you get rank by your rating basically.
right now, that would be a problem since players that are good anyways would get the good reinforcements.
but that can be fixed by seperating the ranks from which reinforcements you can use.
i would really like if when you see an elite commander you are like shiieeeet.
right now reaching ranks is easy. i have 37 wins but only actually fought and won 3-4 times

[ColonelSheppard]

no i dont like that, i dont want to change mechanics i want to see a place for lower rated players, and not only as a solar plant for credits

[Supremegod]

if you make the higher rank players the only ones who can have t3 reinforcements you are going to make very good players, unbeatble

[ColonelSheppard]

back to topic pls this was not what i suggested

[Downlord]

I'm not sure if displaying the rank would change much. Btw. why use colors and not just a ranking numbers?

Just my two cents; It could also be an option to have separate galactic wars for each of the level ranges mentioned by you.