wcaclimbing wrote:I have around 1400 points.... just played a guy that had only 220. thankfully, i won the game, but i would have been down 100 points if he had instead.
can't you at least decrease the most possible to lose? 100 is way too much.
well thats the beauty of changing the floor, we need the 100 point handicap to insure that the top score doesnt skyrocket out of control. Having too many players at 5000 might actually discourage players... so the handicap keeps this from happening...well in theory, but high ranked players, should lose big points, its the low and medium ranked players that should not. On your fifth game in CC you could lose 100 points to someone just messing around and making a mockery of the game.
For me, a 100 points is nothing, but for someone who can only play 4 games at a time, its huge.
The floor will hurt no one. Any inflation in points is irrelevant, because the amounts would be so low as to not change anything, and everytime a player comes in loses a few games, and leaves, extra points are in the system anyways... not to mention the thousands of multi points floating around, so inflation isnt a concern that I can see. Theres a sea of points out there, a few players at 250 that should be at 0 wont make much of a difference.
I apparently like this idea a lot, huh???
The reason for the scoring system is to make the game fair for newcomers, but by allowing the score to go so far negative, it actually makes it unfair. the top ranks are affected by someone at 0 the same way they are by someone at 300 or 400 relatively speaking, so these players, are only hurting the players the system was set up to protect.
My suggestion would be to make the floor as high as reasonably possible.
I think 250 is the break even point for giving out few points, and saving lower ranks some hard earned points.
