I haven't been on much lately, too many other things going on at work, etc...
But I don't think I WANT to know how many hours I spend playing this game, or any game. Know what I mean?
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TE was talking on ts about the noob ranks the other day. As I understand it, every noob starts with an ELO of 1500 (rank 15). But there is a -15 modifier on their ELO rank that is displayed. After 1 week, the modifier goes up to -14. After 15 weeks the ELO displayed will be the same as the actual ELO (whatever that is after 15 weeks of playing games and getting it adjusted).
I dunno which value it uses for calculating if a game is balanced or not. I'd assume the modified one.
The overall effect is that a noobs upward progression through the ranks is limited by their age.
So either the Novice 2 has played 100 games in two weeks, or has dropped 1 rank in 3 weeks, or dropped 2 ranks in 4 weeks ... etc.
*waits for TE to post telling me how I'm completely wrong and am confusing everyone by telling a load of crap and to STFU.*
I dunno which value it uses for calculating if a game is balanced or not. I'd assume the modified one.
The overall effect is that a noobs upward progression through the ranks is limited by their age.
So either the Novice 2 has played 100 games in two weeks, or has dropped 1 rank in 3 weeks, or dropped 2 ranks in 4 weeks ... etc.
*waits for TE to post telling me how I'm completely wrong and am confusing everyone by telling a load of crap and to STFU.*
Usually though, "skill" is used to covertly mean "match the game exactly to my level of competence." Anyone who is at all worse than me should fail utterly (and humorously!) and anyone better is clearly too caught up in the game and their opinions shouldn't count.