Attack of the Ankle-Biters - Replacment player needed.

tesco samoa · #1 April 21st, 2004, 03:04 AM

Hevorfinished.

P.S. not enough of the arnie finish lines...

Parasite · #2 April 21st, 2004, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Hevorfinished.

My empire has gone to dust, but hopefully some of my people will survive. I was beaten into submission by the Evil Power hungry Ekhazon Empire.

Of course I conveniently forgot that I was the one who started the war.

Hope you all have as much fun as I did as my fur settles down to the floor.

Ex-Furball

[edit: added smilies]

[ April 21, 2004, 15:39: Message edited by: Parasite ]

Slynky · #3 April 26th, 2004, 02:13 PM

Since it is hard to tell from looking at the PBW game itself, there are 2 empires that have been eliminated. Are any of them players who were being rated (and hence, requiring a Ratings computation)?

geoschmo · #4 April 26th, 2004, 02:56 PM

Don't recall who all was rated, but player 1 was Krsqk/Alneyan/Parasite and player 4 was Narrew. You can find out who had a dead empire by looking at the history screen for the game.

Slynky · #5 April 26th, 2004, 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Don't recall who all was rated, but player 1 was Krsqk/Alneyan/Parasite and player 4 was Narrew. You can find out who had a dead empire by looking at the history screen for the game.

Well, to be more specific, as long as it wasn't any of the following (from the Ratings site), then the game is up-to-date on Ratings:

Gandalph
Geoschmo
Joachim
Loser
RexTorres
Slynky
Tesco samoa

geoschmo · #6 April 26th, 2004, 03:09 PM

Loser dropped out in January. Sefter took over for him. Unless you are giving Loser credit for whatever Sefter does I guess he should get dinged.

Slynky · #7 April 26th, 2004, 03:36 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Loser dropped out in January. Sefter took over for him. Unless you are giving Loser credit for whatever Sefter does I guess he should get dinged.

Applying a rating to a person who plays a significant portion of the game (and is replaced) is not something that is "true" to the Ratings system. Whether that person turns out winning OR losing.

I have searched the thread during the time the change was made and see nothing of it. The significant Posts dealed with asking to be rated (Loser) and then a check by Loser later on asking how his old empire was doing.

So, without any good explanation for why he dropped (and if he has been playing other games since then...which I have no indication of...since he has been rather silent), he should be dinged.

I'll need to investigate further, I guess. Any help is appreciated, of course, since the intention of the Ratings system is to measure ability and not have it skewed by a player's inability to continue due to RL. On the other hand, we don't want to allow people to exit games under the pretense of RL problems because of a losing position. In this case, the Hand seemed to be in pretty good shape. So...it's hard to tell without further exploration.