Introducing Country Weighting

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Re: Introducing Country Weighting

#21 Post by jmo1121109 » Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:36 pm

This conversation is absolutely absurd. Some points to consider:

1. This makes a decision based on everyone in the game. So even if you "game" the system, it still might not have any impact if the other people on the site are already unbalanced more then you. Which is very possible since we didn't have a valid weighting system in place before this.

2. Gaming the system like you said is harder and harder the more games you have played on the site since it considers your entire game history, and each new game you do will now be weighted to keep your overall game distro even, so you can't actually get enough games of one country to have a meaningful impact on the overall algorithm for this to be a concern.

3. Nobody is going to wait for you or any other idiot to join 50 games to attempt this before they do a high point game.

4. Before this change players who joined the site before 2013 or so could actually game the system far more easily then after this fix.

5. Everything Tom Bombadil said.

6. I'm sorry if I gave the impression in this thread that we were asking for opinions on this change. It was needed, we very much appreciate ALL development work that is done for the site, and this is not being rolled back.
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Re: Introducing Country Weighting

#22 Post by dargorygel » Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:47 pm

Thanks to the developers apparently random letters instead of names... (ATC, rcmcf) ok, that was funnier in my head than when I typed it.
Seriously, THANKS for the hard, detailed, tedious (?) work to make this site better.

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Re: Introducing Country Weighting

#23 Post by grumbledook » Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:49 am

Yay! Thank you to all the developers for their hard work!

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Re: Introducing Country Weighting

#24 Post by bo_sox48 » Tue Feb 20, 2018 2:30 am

I'll take your France games, Durga. Want my Russias in return?

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Re: Introducing Country Weighting

#25 Post by President Eden » Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:36 am

Durga wrote:
Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:17 pm
Yeah, I'm sick of having 20 games as France when I fucking hate France.
leave me the France games in ur will bb

edit: fml late to the joke by 6 hours to bo

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Re: Introducing Country Weighting

#26 Post by CAPT Brad » Wed Feb 21, 2018 5:49 am

I love France I will take France

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Re: Introducing Country Weighting

#27 Post by CAPT Brad » Wed Feb 21, 2018 5:53 am

I just don't want Europe anymore. I have had it with Europe.

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