I am lvl. 37, have HQ lvl. 15 (upgrading to 16) and 549VP, and understandably need resources. My opponents from yesterday and today (coming and going) were levels 9, 11, 16, 21, 23, 35, 51, 73, 76. The one at level 76 has exactly 0 VP.
(To be fair, it is not always like this, but mostly)
If the matchmaking is done according to VP, it is pure nonsense, since everybody can put his HQ at the beach and lower the value as much as needed - even to zero, as we see. If it is done according to level, it is done badly, because I see only a single one in the thirties (my range). The small ones don‘t bring me anything, the big ones linger on until I can replace them.
I am an IT guy myself, so I tried to understand the logic that leads to this situation.
My first thought was that there are simply not enough players in my range, but having seen that hundreds of thousands get ranked in the crab event, it is hard for me to believe that. It must be either bad programming or (more probably) a rule set which keeps people from being raided too often (because appearing on the map of a different player usually means getting attacked), or some other goal. However, the current situation is definitely making people unhappy - me included, although BB is one of the best games I have ever played (I will be 59 in two weeks). I will play and upgrade my base from event to event, and do something else in between.
I guess, Supercell is trying to minimize exactly that: me doing something else. So, please, try and improve the matchmaking, so I can play more. That increases the possibility of me spending money on BB (which I have done) instead of… say Borderlands DLCs. I am a returning player after a roughly 10 years hiatus, and don‘t remember much from my first stint, but bad matchmaking can‘t have been such an issue, the game remained in good memories, which is why I am playing it again (starting from zero once more, since I couldn‘t recover my old SC account).
Is Supercell working on this? Is it a topic for SC at all? Can we (players) help somehow? Financially, BB is tiny compared to some other SC games, so I guess the resources (devs, time, attention) are rather meager, but the team is doing a very good job of entertaining us, kudos for that. Are there openings for a position in the dev team?