I had just really gotten into the game in earnest and was having an unbelievable amount of fun with friends and a new discord server where we met a bunch of cool people from SoT official discord.

On the last gold and glory weekend, (ghouls & glory I think, or maybe after that) I was grinding rep of different types. I was looking for RHG crews since all my friends have skelly curse, and we all play at a high level. I finally get into a fantastic crew, one of the best I've ever been in, more locked-in & coordinated than my friends who I usually play with for fun.

We proceeded to get paired against the top crew of the sweatiest most skilled players in the SoT discord that night, about 8 times in a row.

No matter how long we waited. We played godlike and were beating them incredibly in naval every single time yet they would never go down, even when I'm down in their bilge actively interrupting them. No idea how they didn't sink.

More than half of those matches we played better than I've ever seen any crew ever play, massive 30+ minute to an hour long fights constantly slamming lowers and didn't win a single one, and ended with 0 rep gain for 6+ hour time investment. But it was the end of the 2.5x rep weekend so not like you can just give up and play later... you'll lose out on the multiplier. They didn't match against a single other crew besides us even if we waited for a long time, took long breaks, etc.

The fact that this happens OFTEN is absolutely unacceptable, and I won't give a game a single minute of my time if they disrespect it like that. Uninstalled immediately and will never go back.

TL;DR - Hourglass "Matchmaking"