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its a nice idea but dario is right, all the flaws and loopholes in the point system and the rules for playoffs and everything need to be developed and agreed on before a cash prize is used.

Once those things are worked out and everyone can agree on a fair system then adding prizes would bring back alot of old wormers maybe and also make games more serious, it could really help wormnet.

But on the other hand is may also cause people to cheat again like what happened in previous leagues with silkworm, xspeed or even hack the website to destory your work or let themselves win. Id maybe consider another prize, Like a printed mug or t-shirt. This may not cause possible cheats and bad sports to emerge as dramatically as a cash prize!

yeah im disappointed about the lack of clanner po's. CKC, cFc and CF all did enough games.

20 is abit low but could be accurate for the current inactiveness of the clan league. 30 seems fair. Thats a clanner a day for a clan.. doesnt seem to hard if the season are one month long.

Also its kinda like all the games we did are pointless as the ratings got reset too... ive yet to post in this thread as it could be lengthy lol...

We used to give an hour to report a game.

If the loser goes and plays right after the game and winner had reported it was considered to be a bad sporting attitude.. but the game could stick if it was within the hour time limit of the winner not reporting.

If the winner took over an hour to report and then the loser played he could void that game as it effected his rating differently. However this was only valid if it would effected the scheme so it wouldnt work if someone reported late and the loser had played anything since in that scheme to effect the rating and the late report wasnt a problem.

po schemes that can be picked should be

elite
bng
roper
ttrr
t17
shopper

imo

it has to be played on bo3 otherwise its too lucky. Its a very good competitive scheme darkz, dario, jigsaw, and few others are great at this scheme. Maybe tus needs to come up with a system to award more 2 wins for bo3 matchs, or each round of intermediate counts as a win/lose but you HAVE to do bo3 and not 1 round.

oh yea, ty 

i just made a post in playoff thread about free and classic standings and the problems. Now i just checked and they are just the single games of 'free alternative schemes being displayed' being displayed, thats cool.

my experiences tells me its really hard to get people to play playoffs (depends on how u can motivate them) so 2 months is best because u get less playoffs to manage and it makes reaching the playoffs more important.

id also suggest no playoffs for free beacuse its jsut too many, id also considering only displaying free standings with the schemes that arnt classic, so then you can see the top players of 'none league schemes' and maybe rank the top 3 players in a hall of fame.

But with classic, don't make too many playoffs because its hard to get people to finish their games, alot of leagues have had this problem over the years, and unless you make some really cool features like hall of fame and trophies it'll be hard to get the games done, espically if there are 2 sets of playoffs once a month and the same players reach both for free and classic.

Quote from: chakkman on December 05, 2008, 07:50 PM

Quote from: NAiL on December 05, 2008, 01:27 PM
+ About intermediate, I really think that it should be obligatorty to play best of 3 games (bo3), and report 1 win (or maybe 2).

You cannot play a game of inter with only 1 round, it won't be fair. This is because alot of the inter strategy and gameplay is determined by the deployment of the worms at the start of the round. Seeing as only 1 round will be played, the player who starts first will have an obvious advantage. When played bo3, each player has a chance to start first and so it reduces the luck varuant hugely.

And to all those people who say inter is a noob scheme and its all luck or whatever, go play some of the NNN pros and see if you can beat them!

Inter is as skillful as any other scheme on wa.
You can't really say one scheme requires more skill than another anyway.
Yes shopper is easy to learn, but if two pros played a game would you not still have an exciting match on your hands...

yep, intermediate scheme should remain untouched as the others...and report should be 1 win when you win bo2.

agree with both players here. In NNNL you even have to play on same stlye of map twice then a different one because of luck of placements and to even open chances of bad maps and bad placements.

For example you have to play open, open, and then if a 3rd round cavern.
Or cavern, cavern and if a 3rd round open.

who the f@#! disallowed 5sec sitters in elite?? lmao..

agree with ramone

TPL = the peoples league.

it only ran for a couple of months, was rating and points combined, points was reset, rating never was, top 4 from rating made po's plus top 4 from points.

The rating calucation was similar to fb, it wasnt exterme and worked well.

sigh..

i cant really even get started.. ive not really taken enough time looking around the site to offer a valid opinion.. deciding on a rating system is hard. XTC didnt get it right, it stopped noob bashing but it was so exterme it put pros off playing and they just sat at the top of the table..

FB had the best rating system which allowed for accounts to be reset and the points being won and lose was balanced prefectly.

However it got boring as the standings stayed the same and playoffs were indentical each season, therefore the best league system was the mixed rating and points of tpl..

Quote from: Shirdel on November 22, 2008, 01:52 PM

Quote from: chakkman on November 22, 2008, 11:19 AM
hm not bad for a guy that has approximately 1/3 of my life experience saying that im far away from knowing everything.. so how should you?

In worms... I know a lot of things. Btw Rioter, please send me the Beta of the thing you're making. I want to make sure you haven't missed/addedanything.

In worms you know alot of things.. lol

you don't know much at all... who is this guy?