Feeling like removing !predict yet?
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I would rather go for independent FFA ladder (was it using casual now?). I think it would make for more interesting games, as if a player constantly manages "to convince" others to attack the highest rank he will become himself high rank so he would need to adjust strategy...

quote: @Godde: Wouldn't growing adjusted to !predict mean that players use it to target the highest rated player at the start of the game all the time? Like I can say that I think DeinFreund and izirayd are better FFA players than me but they can just throw !predict back at me. :P

I doubt that any1 would have to resort to !predict in your case.
The only solution I can think of would be anonymous mode where colours are synced so that people can identify each other's via them.

Now:
Lob1 to others: "Don't attack me you fools, use !predict: Godde has a 99.9% chance to win while mine is... uh... "NaN"!!

Anonymous mode:
Mr. Pink: "Let's make peace, Mr Orange, I know that Mr Brown is in fact Godde, look how gracefully he orb-walks his com while dodging those Ronins!"

> Feeling like removing !predict yet?

My odds of victory were only very slightly higher than RedEagle's

Just so we're clear, I see no foul play in this game. Or at least I have no evidence of any. It's just that to Godde's point, and by the nature of RTS games, 2 players of reasonable skill can usually overwhelm just about any single player of any skill.

If !predict points the finger at someone, it doesn't really matter how good they are assuming reasonable spread in player skill. You'll just get eliminated as soon as the game starts no matter who you are.

If my neighbors gang on me either by accident or just because they don't like my face... then, I mean whatever. FFAs be FFAs. But if players !predict every game and always gang on highest %, I can't think of a way to ever survive that. At that point it's not FFA, it's all v 1 until he's gone and then a FFA.

In most other games I have played, usually somebody gets ganged on at some point. Again, FFAs be FFAs. But, usually, it's because there is a claim that a player has far more territory/eco/army than any other one player and is currently a threat, in this game specifically.

quote: Dyth, you teamed up on Galamesh with bhaktivedanta, then me and bhaktivedanta teamed on you. It's normal FFA.

Galamesh had, what, 10 times our victory chance? While me and you had about a 30% difference?
That's pretty different.

When you join in teaming and then complain about teaming... anyway. I really don't want to continue using this forum, too much drama.

quote: In my experience in FFA it is incredibly rare for two out of three equally powerful players with reasonably similar ELOs to gang up on a third.

Totally. I would wager that's because those 3 players each want the win, as opposed to a group that wants a specific outcome that is one of them wins, no matter who.