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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:43 am
by Torke
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?
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:33 am
by juckto
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.*