Seeding system?

[geoschmo]

The varying styles of games and the length of them are both valid concerns for any prospective ranking system.

The idea that I had toyed around with was a simple ladder system such as is available at Case's Ladder website. The way it works is you move up the ladder by beating players ahead of you in the ladder. The losing party in each case would report the loss.

My idea would be to limit the number of player in an official ladder game to four. This would help with keeping the games from going on forever, although they can still take a long time even then. Any combination of mods, victory conditions, and game settings that can be agreed upon by all the players would be fine I think, as long as there is some clearly defined method of deciding who won and who lost, and in teh case of 3 or four man games who game in 2nd and 3rd.

If I ran the ladder I would also require that anybody in the ladder use their PBW login as their identity on the ladder, although I would not require the game to be played on PBW if the players choose not to.

But the length of games is really the biggest obstacle to something like this working well.

Geoschmo