Home World Forum
Stars! AutoHost web forums

Jump to Stars! AutoHost


 
 
Home » Stars! 2.6/7 » The Bar » Skill ranking (was RE: Mentorship)
Re: Skill ranking (was RE: Mentorship) Sat, 27 March 2004 06:45 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
donjon is currently offline donjon

 
Lt. Commander

Messages: 808
Registered: November 2002
Location: Benque Viejo del Carmen, ...

Hi Guys,

Wink I was gone yesterday... betcha noticed...

OK, the military ranks as opposed to other set of ranks looks good to me.

The suggestion concerning the reliability index also is simple and very doable (is that a word)

There is two things which concerned me:

Teams:
Granted, a team either wins or loses, one member of the team may contribute to that win just as much as the first ranked player but due to the nature of the job, receives a low ranking.

The idea of 25% advance and 25% decrement sounds fine. That limits the advances to at most 4 in a 16 player game (which is a very rare occurrence)

I think that limiting ranked games with teams to a team size of four would be reasonable.

That means that, lets say you have a game with 12 players on three teams. This still would receive an advance for the winning team.

However, 5 player team games would not be considered for ranking. (ie 3 teams of five) because the advance value of the game would be too much. (when weighted against a normal, non-teamed game)

Substitutes:
Subs do come into play and need to be considered. Considering the challenge of "putting on someone else's shoes," and the nature of most likely substitutions (ie. the player has lost interest due to a bad position/race etc)

I feel that subs should never be penalized for completing a game.

And, they should get any advances that they are entitled to...

and, the host is final arbiter concerning rewards, if a sub comes in and does something wondrous with the race (ie. moves the race from last place to fifth place in a sixteen player game) they have the right to award an extra advance to the player.

Concerning me having the post of rating agent... I would be happy to take it. I hope Ron approves and sets up a specific forum for it. I would be impartial and regular for the forseeable future and set up procedures such that anyone else could come in and be the agent in the future.

I would not consider present games for rating. But all games presently starting and future games could be considered for rating (at the hosts discretion of course)


[Updated on: Sat, 27 March 2004 09:12]

Report message to a moderator

 
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message icon5.gif
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message icon5.gif
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Previous Topic: Poll: What game should I host next?
Next Topic: RWIAB II: The review thread
Goto Forum:
  


Current Time: Tue Jun 04 08:22:06 EDT 2024