I'm just explaining what's going on with SoS, not disagreeing with your preference. I prefer DSS and Carnage to SoS personally myself!

But somewhat related:

PPSC was a shit show bullshit system that did two things that DSS did not:
Gave more points for more centers (if you lost)
Let you get points for losing (i.e. a bullshit make believe scoring system)

If you want the "more points for more centers" aspect, SoS offers this
If you want the "bullshit make believe scoring system", unranked offers this
If you want neither, DSS offers this

(not you in particular Gobble, using "you" in the general sense)

It's not an EQUIVALENT, which some people seem to be idiotically inferring should be the case, to PPSC, but rather removes an embarrassing blight and if people want to retain some aspects of it, they exist. All this "but it's not PPSC!" misses a basic fundamental point and should really warrant introspection on one's reasoning capabilities.

The point isn't to RECREATE PPSC with the new options, otherwise it'd be redundant (and stupid). The point is to remove a shit show bullshit system while also offering other options, some of which happen to incorporate partial elements of PPSC.

I'm all for clarity, so maybe I'm not being clear enough, PPSC was made on the back of a napkin by a subpar casual player one day, who was repeatedly told it doesn't make sense by others but didn't care and then eventually left it behind. It has not, is not, and never will be thought up by or used by anyone else anywhere. If you want "Split points by draw-based for a draw but randomly give 1/2 to winner and to the losers based on centre count" for some reason, go play it unranked and assign yourself your arbitrary, odd, mentally deficient, unofficial scoring system, along with any other imaginary non-sanctioned scoring system you wish to play with. That's what unranked games can do, allow you to do, part of the reason they exist.

I'm very afraid the clamoring stuttered in this thread who are circling around this issue think that somehow they're actually now in the majority because the decent have left the thread mostly alone hoping they'd tucker out (except ATC up until recently, bless his abused heart). This is not the case, and is quite simple to see from earlier threads where it was fought for removal of PPSC, or at the trend of WTA play.