storm440 wrote:
you make a very good point. On another issue, i know you have stated in the past that you think ai games should count in ones' score, but if they are truely "training missions" then i vote that they should not. I think points should only be awarded for victories against actual people in actual non-training battles.
But this game uses Glicko, which isn't like some crappy ranking system e.g. Warcraft III (great game, crap ladder), every game helps the system to identify your score. If you lose your first couple of games against the AI, it simply means you'll gain all the more points from it once you beat it. The more games Glicko has to work with the more accurate your score. Artificially inflating your score by excluding AI games (for fear of loss) just means thatyou'll gain less or lose more when you finally do play someone.
Excluding the AI games from rankings really isn't going to help your score, long-term.
[quote=Rextrent]This will be redundant, but how hard is it to exclude a timer?....Why does it exist?....I played MAN1 and Domination for months, many hours....and I never felt the need to be hurried like I hurry the people who have the misfortune to be driving in front of me in their cars....What is the hangup here?....I'm not going to be snotty like I always am...But this is senseless. [/quote]
If you're going to have real-time games then a timer is a must-have option. I just don't like having it as the only option.