Incandenza wrote:Farming ?'s is one thing, but I see nothing wrong with a coordinated freestyle team whomping on stripers dumb enough to set one up in the first place. There's farming (bad), and then there's beating people that simply don't play the game very well. Big difference.
You've got me all wrong, man. I do not wish to protect the guys that are losing these games. If you lose, you lose. That's that. I have no pity for losers. I'm looking at it from the point of view of wanting a scoring system where it is impossible to inflate your score by winning against losers all the time.
Incandenza wrote:
Besides, you seem to be tacitly suggesting that either A) people only be allowed to join games with equivalently ranked players, or B) that freestyle team games be eliminated. Bad idea either way.
I have been active in Sugs and Bugs for the past month, contributing to various suggestions on scoring systems that would tend to indicate that if A has a higher score than B then A tends to beat B. I urge anyone who wants a scoring system like this to take the time to read some of the suggestions before dismissing them all as impractical.
The feedback seems to indicate that the majority of players like the option of being able to inflate their scores by winning against unskilled players all the time. I can't help but feel that some players who seem to be posting in favor of this just don't understand the point. Because it seems obvious that one would NOT want a system like this, unless farming is the point of the game.
oVo wrote:
Who cares? This subject is a bore.
It is a bore. I've almost given up, sick of the flaming and off-topic posts, especially now that it seems like the mods are stifling discussion of scoring reform by locking threads.
Again, does anyone know any RISK like site where you can only get to the top by beating peers?
