[raynor]

MegaTrain, I was just talking about solo games.

Regarding the rating system: I like one of the things they are doing on GalCiv.Com. When you click on a player, you can see how many games they have submitted to the MetaVerse. So, if you see that they have won lots of games on the highest level of difficulty, I might rate their opinion as more significant than that of someone who hasn't submitted any games at all. Of course, this system works quite well for a single player game that records your score and such. But it wouldn't work nearly so well here.

If you wanted to come up with a better ranking system, you might consider a formula that puts more weight on ranking of people who have in turn been ranked higher by others. Otherwise, the system is pretty much pointless.

Also, on GalCiv, they seem to assign higher ranks like 'Veteran' and 'Diplomat' to players that the site admins have noticed significant contributions from. That's a much less computationally intensive way of providing folks with a weigh of weighing Posts from different people.