So symbolic gain purple rank from FFA battle.

No. I've asked about that a few times before and the response I got is that the games produce rating that is still valuable for casual elo purposes.

In other words, FFAs help with rating more than they hurt.

TBH this is something I find difficult to argue with, for all the wrong reasons. I don't know if that's still what is mostly happening, but when I stopped playing FFAs, the room would systematically gang on the higest rated player. Unless you're good enough to win a 3+v1, you're going to lose. You're going to lose rating, and they're going to gain some. This also means it's a mode ripe for elo dumping in a "legitimate" way.

That being said if Hedkeaf ranked up in FFAs, that seems to mean they aren't doing that anymore, so admins would point to this and say: See? The best player in the room ranked up, as expected. In this case, they'd also be right.

quote: FFA games are supposed to be noelo but there isn't anything in the server which forces them to be, at the moment. They will retroactively become no-elo at some point in the future. An unfortunate hack solution, but it is what it is.

This should fix that.