SCORING

[Walrus]

So I offered to surrender, we negotiated a victory level for him and we are now playing another map that is much better.
And it is only for that reason that I believe that I and maybe any other guys would consider surrendering. No point in being stuck in a game that none of the players are enjoying, not even the winning player.:)

Fair enough...but that's not really what I consider 'surrender' in reference to my earlier post.

Surrender, IMO, is when you are getting a kicking and you throw in the towel. This means your opponent can claim whatever victory he wishes.

You seem to have negotiated an end to a game situation that was not working / enjoyable for both players.
That is not an uncommon practice.
There is no need to actually score a game like that if you do not wish to...or a draw can be scored...or what ever you guys think is a fair result for the game.
I agree....it is far better to both be playing a battle that is fun

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I think the original idea of all games awarding the same amount of points between the players is a good one he used 60 points which does not seem liked try 100

99 points Overwhelming Victory to the Winner
85 points Decisive Victory to the Winner
70 points Medium Victory to the Winner
60 points Minor Victory to the Winner
50 points Draw to both players
40 points Minor Loss of a scenario
30 points Medium Loss of a scenario
15 points Decisive Loss of a scenario
1 points Overhelming Loss of a scenario

Overwhelming & decisive score big because the other force in all probability has ceased to exist as a combat unit.
Minor should perhaps be 55-45 as not far off a draw & both forces probably able to fight another day.
Gap between top 3 Medium Decisive Overwhelming purposly as is because achieving is progresivly harder.

Hi
I think that set of ratios works better IMO.
However, as weasel said earlier, the SP ladder scores do not exist in a vacuum here at tThe Blitz.
All the club ladder had their score systems changed / re-calibrated so that they were in sync with each other. As all the game systems are quite different, especially re. the actual time involved to finish a battle, this was a long and painful exercise for those involved in the calculations.

I seriously doubt that a big change to the SP scoring system will be kindly looked upon by those in charge, especially right now as we go through the minor chaos of a complete website coding change.

However...I think the idea has merit and if we can get a good potential new score system together here and present it to the powers that be...who knows, it may well fly.

So...continue the debate....but don't hold your breath for a quick change.

Cheers
Walrus