If anything, the system in place can give more incentive to beat better players because it's usually at low risk/high reward due to the Season Rating/Overall Rating relationship.

You can try suggesting an alternative, not just the 'idea' of an alternative that you claim exists in other games, and be detailed.  Then we may better understand what you'd rather prefer in a league system so we can react to it, not just saying that you dislike losing points.

You can find previous discussions on this in Announcements forum threads
https://www.tus-wa.com/forums/announcements/write-leagues-system-from-scratch-6453/
https://www.tus-wa.com/forums/announcements/new-plan-for-leagues-started-7003/

And I'm sure there were more threads, in other subforums around that time, but you can start another here if you really want to get detailed about a new idea to spark a new conversation.

I'm pretty sure Ramone means he won't accept any more of his future replays while the challenge is still active, since he's already had a little 'sneak peak', ruining the spirit of the no look challenge.

Thanks for hosting barman :] fun

It's definitely a 'new' concept to introduce to Elite, but none of my games even had any reason to knock, even in my last one vs Barman, he did a knock, but it probably wasn't even necessary.

4 worms in Elite is likely a big factor why, whereas in Intermediate when there's so many worms (eight), you have more reason to try knocking.  Overall, my impression is I'm still not convinced Rope Knocking really needs to be added to Elite just for the sake of changing something.  Sure this was a small sample size with Bo1 games in an 8 player tournament, but I'd still wager that Rope Knocking when allowed would probably happen way less than you might think, and not even be a factor in most all games.

Quote from: franz on March 20, 2013, 01:40 AM
no new times

So keep offering times, it helps your chances. Cheers.

Reminder: Round2 deadline - SUNDAY, March 31st  (Clans FINAL deadline - SATURDAY, April 20th)
almost 4 week(s) in now -> less than 2 week(s) left for Round2  (less than 5 week(s) left for Clans FINAL)


Bry4N #2/Impossible #5, both risk kick, no new times

cFc #1/dt #2, cfc risk kick, you need to reply and confirm to dt's offers and/or offer your own

Nice

Will Deadcode and CyberShadow get any % or sum of money if we purchase through Steam?  (can you guys divulge this yourselves if you're reading this?)

Everyone here already has the game, but I bet some will even repurchase it if they know it will help compensate these fine programmers for all their hard work.

Not knocking it (heh), but I wonder if a knock will even happen in every game.  It's like you gotta constantly remind yourself you can knock, after so much habit not doing it ;]

Quote from: OrangE on March 18, 2013, 06:25 PM
i strongly think that if elite it's supposed to stay a non-knocking scheme there should be a scheme fix in some way, or it should be played in a channel where knocking isnt working.

5 worms in ttrr could be good OR a bad thing. i didn't try it yet competitively so i still don't know.

Deadcode/CyberShadow as far as I know are still promising a rewrite of scheme settings to allow a clickable option for Rope Knocking, and that could still be a long ways a way, but at least that idea is out there.  As far as hosting Elites in AnythingGoes, there really haven't been almost any complaints on this because people know the risk of hosting there, and it's just convenient, so most people are lenient when a little nudge happens that doesn't affect gameplay.  Anything more controversial is more easily handled in complaints with Mod insight, and I think all previous cases of this have been handled appropriately.  Still, for anyone who is still bothered by even a possibility of Rope Knocking happening, they always have the option to force hosting in PartyTime, but almost no one ever asks for it.

Yeah, I'll still say 3, or even 2 worms in TTRR if people want to try change, that's just my opinion.

adding these to my original post:

ELITE: keep Rope Knocking off.  No one really complains about the no Rope Knocking rule that's been in place anyway so I don't think it needs a change just for the sake of change.  I realize Barman was the first to suggest this here, who has been playing Intermediate more lately, so that's probably where he got the idea from, but I think keeping Rope Knocking off is a perfectly fine rule that should stay.  Try Rope Knocking in Intermediate games or maybe Elite-variants.

TTRR: don't go more than 3 worms.  Keeping the worm count at 3 is best.  If anything, less worms down to 2 would be more exciting and thrilling, but I think 3 has been a nice balance for a long time, and more worms just waters down the quality of play.

https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/TRL-standings/?s=12
https://www.tus-wa.com/leagues/TRL-playoffs/?s=12

Dmitry wins his very first championship!  Both Dmitry and HHC get revenge by reaching the Team17 final this time (they both lost right away the first time TRL hosted Team17 back in season 5).

damn Deadcode, sick work

Quote from: Kaleu on March 16, 2013, 10:18 PM
I don't have steam franz... 
I'm so angry, I lost all my maps teams and stuff....

Definitely recommend keeping a backup of stuff that's important to you, even WA stuffs.  Still, bl man

Quote from: Kaleu on March 16, 2013, 09:39 PM
Omg, this update comes full of bugs, don't install it, deleted my "User" folder automatically, wtf.

Didn't this happen to Steam users?  People who updated via steam had their User folders automatically deleted.  I updated outside of Steam and nothing was deleted.

hopefully that Steam error isn't still happening either though. if so, sorry you lost your data ;x

Roper is already played with 2 worms in clanners and it balances it out nicely.  I really don't get the hate there