Robinette wrote:AAFitz wrote:Uncle Death wrote:I'm a relatively new player and a first time poster, so naturally I think I'm as smart or smarter than all of you, so forgive me. I have looked for games with higher ranked opponents for 2 reasons. I want more points and I want to learn to be a better player. I think it's perfectly natural for people to try and protect their rank. I think the segregation should be based on numbers of games played. Once I've played enough games to show I'm serious and not a jerkoff who will be unreliable or screw up games, I want to play better players. If what I've read in this thread is correct and the best players are all playing private and team games, then the ranks are meaningless anyway and should be done away with. If I am never going to get a chance to play at least one game with one of the top players, then that's a little disappointing.
it is nice to see a nice player with some common sense. And, who realizes all they have to do to play some higher ranks, is to get a higher rank. Also, many higher ranks will play if you just ask....you can set up privates with many...most dont understand this...but asking them to set up open games so that negative players, multis, etc can join is just too much to ask...I imagine there are many lower ranked players that only play private games too to avoid the same thing.
Anyone who goes out of their way to complain about what games someone else plays is just crazy and jealous...ive played 1600 or so games...ive played doubles or trips against many if not most of the top players, have played with or against them, but even I have not played many in singles...my score even at its peak of 2600 was not really high enough to justify a game with players that had 3500 or so...and it never would have occurred to me to even ask, because even though most would probably say yes...it wasnt really fair to them...
Wow... good sense on top of common sense... what a refreshing read!!!
I'll just add that I never even thought of asking the top ranked players to play me when I was lower on the scoreboard... but what I did do was start games and invite the top players that were the same rank as me... if you can learn and consistently beat your peers, you'll soon be at a higher rank... rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat... and viola... top page of the scoreboard you will be.
Yeh, that is what I prefer to do too. Playing the really good players will probably not benefit me all that much because I would probably get torn apart. Similarly, playing with lesser players will either give me a false rank or make me lose a lot of games due to stupid moves of others. Also, if I can consistently beat those who are of the same rank as me, it shows that I deserve to be where I am
