Ranking Nonsense - Living in Parallel Universes

[Harti]

(08-05-2012 09:31 PM)ArtNJ Wrote:  Time to go try Hero Academy again Calmon. The excellent ELO based League is Hero Academy's biggest advantage. Also keep in mind that Great Big War Game uses ELO, and Uniwar uses an ELOish system of undisclosed mechanics. So you can "vote with your feet" if you feel necessary, or, to put it less dramatically, just play more than one while you monitor the long term situation.

-1 and reported for advertising. As a beta tester, you should rather support the game than tell the people to go away if they don't like it...


ELO is no better than the system we currently have. It's well established and works for SC2 as well.
I understand that the points are currently a bit off but that's due to the nature of the system. Before it can grasp our true skill, it feels that we should get 20ish points for winning. Some peeps' skills have been determined far earlier because they kept beating good players, so they get fewer points all in all.

But with the planned seasoning this shouldn't be much of an issue. Once the ladder points are reset and your rating stays the same it will deliver a much more significant result.

With an ELO system, I'd be completely afraid to play ANY more when I read something about being the 5th best player out of like 200k. I'd be afraid to get paired against an ELO 1500 player and if I lost I went down from like 2100 to 1900 or something. That sucks.