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**Harti** · (This post was last modified: 07-17-2012 01:47 AM by Harti.)

No matter what quality your arguments have, crump, ELO is probably never going to happen to Outwitters. Alex and Adam decided that way back in 2010, even before they began to program anything more than prototypes. It's pretty much set in stone and has gone through a couple of iteration lifecycles, each time evolving to a better system. The whole system itself appears to be very (!) clever and precise right now (but that could be just me having played ~230 ranked games after launch), and it will keep getting EVEN better, the more information it can get.

I don't think they will ever ditch these years of work (to improve stability and to reduce point inflation) to replace it with the obviously flawed and exploitable ELO system that every other uncreative developer uses.

Your points are good but I'd like to remind you of what Kamikaze28 (or originally OneAlexLeft) said:
You're not meant to be able to compare yourself with the others.

Hell yes, I'd be interested if the system deems me the best player currently which is unlikely because me being #1 in Black Stick Division of Super-Titan League doesn't mean I'm better than #1s from other divisions or even #2 or #3 from my own. But I really don't feel a persistent urge to know that because I'll find out in a couple of weeks. If I'm still leading, chances are good.

Knowing your currently hidden rating would either mean that you're going to be disappointed or it would mean that you're going to check what changed everytime you win/lose a game and find an exploit to get yourself on top. Neither is really cool.