Although some may have a few grips about the present point system, I really do not. Just to make that clear, I’m only making this post to hopefully generate some ideas. Simply I just enjoy playing the game. Anyhow onward…….
Some of the things to think about would be
A] Point economics
B] Why the ELO system does not work
C] Ratings, Medals and Rankings
D] Cheating? – For the Blind.
E] Achievements!
Point economics
The Present
Due to the fact that there are anywhere from 2-8 players in a game, it would seem its more advantageous to play game with 8 players than 2, because if you lose the game, you lose about the same amount of points as if there were 8 players, and if you win you gain large points. Thus you only need a 12.5% win rate to stay somewhat even, and if you opponents have a higher ranking you gain. With a 25% win rate you should always gain points, and climb up the latter. My 15% win rate has gotten me as high as a Sergeant 1st class, but I believe that is only because I tent to play games with 4 – 8 players and rarely play with 2- 3 players.
Unaccounted Achievements
The present system does not take into account if you come in second or third or fourth, that it is an achievement. I would think that to survive in a game to the second last man that it would be worth something. Unlike most games with one winner and one loser, Conquer Club has one winner and up to 7 losers. So I have to ask what is wrong with, say 3 winners and 5 losers or 4 winners and 4 losers? Should the system not take into account things like how many games you play, how many time you came in second or third? How many times you beat same player over and over? Certainly the Medal system does some of that, and the developers are more than likely looking at adding medal to the system. {yaa!!}
The Scoreboard tells us that the top 1000 players have a rank as low as a Lieutenant, yet with 23,000 players in the system the top 4000 players have a lowest rake of Sergeant 1st class and after that the ranks get lower. The midway point is for ranks is hits between 3000 and 4000 players. Not that this is bad, it just gives us an idea as to how the system doing, and very possibly, how many dead account there are in the system. Yet a healthy 10,000 – 15,000 Daily active players.
Why the ELO system does not work
The ELO System
The ELO system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go, so this system just would not work CC. But even Professor Elo pointed out that the system has flaws. One of those flaws is the inflation of ratings. “The primary goal of Elo ratings is to accurately predict game results between contemporary competitors, and FIDE ratings perform this task relatively well. A secondary, more ambitious goal is to use ratings to compare players between different eras. It would be convenient if a FIDE rating of 2500 meant the same thing in 2005 that it meant in 1975. If the ratings suffer from inflation, then a modern rating of 2500 means less than a historical rating of 2500, while if the ratings suffer from deflation, the reverse will be true. Unfortunately, even among people who would like ratings from different eras to "mean the same thing", intuitions differ sharply as to whether a given rating should represent a fixed absolute skill or a fixed relative performance.” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system#Ratings_inflation_and_deflation]
So a another question come to mind….does CC have any of the above problems?
Ratings, Medals and Rankings
Medals
Personal I like the medals, mainly because it gives players a sense of achievement unlike the ratings that is purely base on individual perception and feelings, and not true achievements. I just wish I could get some! Well the ones I would like anyhow , like the “Best Strategy Medal” , “Medal of Honour” , “Best Sacrifice Medal”, “Best Team Mate Medal”, and finely the medal of “Valour”. Well maybe some day eh…
Ratings
Don’t over rate the ratings, I basically just give almost everyone a five for Fair Play, unless I get eliminate by turn 3. A five for Attitude, unless they swear or something. For Game play I’ll rate from 2-5 mainly a 3 or 4 because I don’t pay to much attention the way others play the game. And a five if they are the winner of near a win, or one of the last four or three players.
Rankings
It’s nice to know how many games I’ve won, but it would be nicer if I knew how close I was to a win in every game. ;P
Cheating
For the blind
If you cheat your only cheating your self.
Achievements!
Achievements!
We reward our pets when they're good, and almost every time they do something we want them to do. The same true for almost any in life. We get rewarded for working, doing well in school, shopping at the same place, recruiting CC members. We all like awards weather they or points, medals, or nick knacks of some kind. And like many people do, we horde them, store them, show them off.
Conclusion
I guess its all a mater of measurement, if we have a longer measurement, then we have farther to go…….
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If Risk is = carpentry . Then chess is = all the other trades put together.
