Nappy:
looks like wendsday/thursday/friday 18-20 gmt didn't work. How about Sunday? I am most comfortably available from 17 gmt to 24 gmt, but can be a bit more flexible if it's really needed.

So, Nappy, can I expect to see you often at #worms or should we fix a date asap?.

Hey zoky, no man, you weren't waiting, I was on all day long, you even joined and quit ag 2 times while I was on but never left a message. Good thing I luckly caught you logged in ag and messaged you, else we wouldn't have played yesterday

Zoky: today thursday from 17 gmt to 23 gmt, tomorrow friday same times, saturday and sunday also aviable, but not sure when.

Didn't you see the news? now the day is defined by argentinian timezone
or gmt timezone
or whatever time zone, but not yours.

(Ignoring Nappy, this post is by no means a response to his post)
woohoooo, finished all my group games in 1 day

Cool group! chuvash, jago, szoszo, never had problems finding them. Anyway, just in case, I'll be online almost everyday today, leave me a message on my snooper if you see me and want to play.

No, the granny says "arbdtemaneniamañamana", pigeon say "cthulhu".

Cthulhu's weapon will bring this cup to me!

I think I just found the correct average round time:

18 minutes, 19 seconds.  18,62% of the rounds end during SD, means that 18,62% of the rounds last more than 22 minutes.

Quote from: NAiL on April 26, 2012, 05:52 PM
+ Dario I dont know how you work this stuff out but thats interesting info indeed.

Over 2 years of gathering detailed information of player winning rates, considering opponent, island rounds, cave rounds, cave rounds where you started and island rounds where you started.

Oh, 1 more thing I see people discussing: first turn factor.
So here the numbers:

Average of 10% more chances of winning a round were you start. Non significative difference between islands and caves (I was surprised about this, was sure the effect would be significatively bigger on islands). 95% confidence intervall: 7%-13%
Sample used: top half ONL overall ranking players, that's 14 players with at least 200 rounds played each-

It's up to you to decide whether that is big or small advantage.

Edit: there was also a positive correlation (r=0,68; p=0,01) between the advantage a player gets from first turn in caves and the advantage the same player gets from first turn in islands; indicating "how much advantage you can get from first turn" as an ability that varies from player to player.

Partial solutions:
-Instead of playing 1 round, always play 2 and report as separated games in the order they were played.
-Add extra in-game rules like "you can choose to restart the round before you move in your first turn".

Possible negative side effects of reducing the number of rounds to 2 or 1 per game:
-People might turn too careful with terrain choice: reduces the variability in the terrains played, reduces the variability of situations you'll have to face as a player (in the way I see intermediate, variability is the most outstanding attribute) . Might even turn the games into pure shotgun wars if the players start editing elite-like terrains to play in. Might end up playing only islands or only caves.
-Takes away the chance to check enemy team worms order and special weapon in first round and use it to your advantage in second round. Loses part of it's tactical side.

Luck will always be part of this and any scheme (even in a battle race the result can depend on sub-pixel alignment that is uncontrollable to the player). But keep in mind that a top intermediate player can (and usually does) achieve a >90% winning ratio (in rounds) against average players.

Hope this added something to the discussion.

Yea, I did. I think he hasn't contacted anyone from the worms community for some time.

Just in case Koras checks this forum. Mate, let's try to play soon. What about sunday?