What Criteria do you use for each Rating???

[whitestazn88]

Okay, I just went and checked the Ratings Reloaded and it looks like Lack will be fixing the problem so that using the rating system correctly will be worthwhile, so I guess I'll go back to the 3-as-average system.

til you realize everyone is still doing the "whatever i'll give 5s" and you'll feel like a tool for giving everyone threes

[owenshooter]

Okay, I just went and checked the Ratings Reloaded and it looks like Lack will be fixing the problem so that using the rating system correctly will be worthwhile, so I guess I'll go back to the 3-as-average system.

til you realize everyone is still doing the "whatever i'll give 5s" and you'll feel like a tool for giving everyone threes

*touching my nose*-0

[PLAYER57832]

i agree the attendance rating should be automated, but play your turn every 2 hrs, really?
In order to get 5 stars, you'd never get more than 2 hours of sleep at a time, which would cause problems in the real world.

It was just a thought. It's all open to discussion (see my thread in suggestions) and if some sort of time could be agreed upon - we have a system.
I came up with 2 hours for those people who are log on and are around for 4 hours and take their goes within 10-15 minutes when a turn presents itself

Yeah, but the problem with this automated thing is that it screws over those who have a social life or internet problems. I usually try to take my turn whenever I can, but when I have to be at university from 9:30 to 17:00 some days it's hard to get my turn within a small amount of time. Or what about those times my internet didn't work and I couldn't get to playing till the next day?

The other problem with the automated star-system is that I deal with different play-groups. If I miss a turn or play after 18 hours I usually don't get a big deal about it as the rest of the group can understand it. A guy in my last game had his house flood so he missed two turns, which I really don't want to see negatively influence his rating.

I think the problem with this new system is that it is too much for the fanatical players anyway. The lack of written responses means a person can't tell whether a person is a solid player with just some bad luck in the past or a notorious deadbeater. This is especially the case with "attendance" as that can be interpreted in so many different ways. The site advertises you can take your turns in 24 hours, but lots of people think that that is stretching the limit considerably.

Any suggestion to list time has pretty much been shot down in the "auto-attendance" thread.

But, I would not worry about the occasional miss. Knowing how much someone deadbeats can be useful. Myself ... I am rather forgiving. Unless someone has a habit of stomping off when losing, I don't care.

Look at it this way .. if you have a few misses those fanatical folks will nicely avoid you ... so you won't have to deal with them