[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Scoring

[Paul Zastoupil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The whole idea of ranking is rather rediculous without player
authentication... who's silly idea was ranking anyway? ;)

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:57:00AM +0200, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Jarkko Siekkinen wrote:
> > I think it would be good idea to change the logging of scores from the
> > "player" to the "connection." This way a player (a human one) could play
> > with different nations and leaders, and still get the score. Also, if a
> > player quits early in the game, and somebody else then connects and wins
> > the game, shouldn't he/she have the score?
> 
> No, I don't think so. There is already a problem with players getting
> disconnected for a few seconds, and then someone else jumping in to take
> over before he can reconnect. We don't want to encourage this behaviour.
> 
> > The ranking system would be
> > much more realistic, then, when no-one would get benefit/losses from
> > another player's acts...
> 
> Well, if the starting player plays until year +1999 then disconnects, and
> another player joins and takes over, who has a better claim to the score
> points?
-- 
Paul Zastoupil