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Right, now that im sober again ill try to explain in detail why it does not make sense MrC.
The ELO concept has s design flaw. Here's why:

The whole point of having a ranking system is to have some kind of indicator that allows us to evaluate the players skill in order to make balanced teams. That ...

QUOTE (MrChaos @ Jan 7 2007, 03:02 AM) Toxic man first you thought Elo worked off of individual achievements or that is at least what you posted.

No, but rereading my post i agree it might be understood that way. I picked up on the idea of removing the score board as an additional way of cutting ...

I disagree. ELO doesnt indicate skill, it just indicates your stacking ability.

Maybe mp, but ask yourself this:

WHY do ppl stack?
WHY do ppl whore around instead of doing useful things like naning etc?
WHY wont ppl give a more unexperienced comm a chance?

Because losing hurts your interests. Thats why. And that interest is ranking, ELO, Score, whatever.
Its the whole concept ...

Thats what i was referring too, MS changed the points algorithm several times. AFAIK your rank was based on total points back then.
Anyway, who needs a ranking system? Id even get rid of score. Individual score is not really helping teamwork. So, dump it.

As for rank: Anyone care to explain how ...

Lets face it: ELO has been tinkered with as long as i can remember. Hell, even Microsoft tampered with it in the old days.
Back then you knew if a player was good just by their reputation. Nowadays everybody has 2 or more Hiders ( which make the ELO concept useless anyway. ).
In my opinion people ...

Just an anecdote i want to share with you all:

I bought Allegiance as soon as it hit the stores, however i couldnt play it because of my ISPs firewall/proxy settings.
It was a very very small local ISP called Cubic Circle, to get access you had to actually go to their "office" ( = rambly shack with ...

I remember having this error in other DirectX Applications when i use the "mouse trail" feature of windows XP.
Try to turn that off if you happen to use it.

Another thing:

When i tried to rejoin, i couldnt join blue(!):
Once it was 14 vs 14 again, i could join the blue team again. /unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":unsure:" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />