Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-172.1.44.57-20150303005326/@comment-25467429-20150303200453

9 times out of 10 the answer is either it is their best plane at the moment, or it is a plane they like. There are not many like the few here who are "white knights" who will use a lower-tier plane just to assert balance to a room. It is usually not viable unless you are the sole high ranker in a predominantly low ranking room, because then you're hoping that any other high MR player will do the same. There are a number of high ranking players I know who simply don't have enough slots to maintain a low-tier but still competetive plane. They didn't buy the extra slots, and they just have those planes they like to use, which happen to be the higher tiered ones.

That's why I think it was a bad idea when PA decided they'd penalize people for leaving rooms too much (different from leaving a match that's underway). A lot of people end up enduring a mission just so they don't have to worry about that penalty acruing. The intent was to stop some from shopping rooms until they found one they thought they could dominate once the stricter kick rules were put in place. I don't host rooms - apparently my connection is not of high enough quality. I usually just use Quick Match. Their matching system doesn't seem to be as attentive to the MR rate as it shoudl be. Using Room Search just tends to be too cumbresome and can get to be a nuisance (though they did make some efforts to correct that). It penalizes those who want to do the right thing and just leave a room they get matched up with that's not balanced if they use the Quick Match option.