[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#4736) Wishlist: Allies should share points for winning (re: pubserver ranking)

["zakarria@xxxxxxxxx" <zakarria@xxxxxxxxx>]

Right now, even if people are allies, and they win, the one who has the
most points at the end wins out-right.  It seems like it would make more
sense for the winner and their allies to share the points gained, and for
it to be proportional to their score in the game.

For instance, Player X and Player Y are allies, at the endyear, Player X
has the most points, and wins the game.  Right now, Player Y is just left
out in the cold, and Player X gets -all- the points for a win they may not
have gotten without the help.

Say Player X had 500 points at the end of the game, and Player Y had 250
points.  My suggestion is that the total points (in regards to the
pubserver ranking system) that "the winner" would get from the rest of the
players, would be split between the outright winner and his/her allies. 
In this example, Player X would get 2/3s of the points, and Player Y would
get 1/3.

I suppose it would get rather complex since if I remember correctly the
scoring is dependant on the reletive previous scores of the winner and
loosers, but I would think it would be doable somehow.

This seems like it would improve things, because as it stands allying can
lopside a game a lot -- if it also lopsides the benifit of winning, that
would impact the way people use alliances, in what I think would be a
logical, fare way.  If you have help, you don't win as big!


And another, related idea, to add to that:

End scores of allies would be combined to decide the winners.  So instead
of the outright single highest score winning, and dragging it's allies
with it, allies would be counted together in the scoring, so if A, B, C,
D, and E were playing, and A and B allied, and C and D allied, then at the
end either A+B would win, or C+D, or E.  Then the winnings could be divied
up as I was saying in the first place.

--Zack (Raven)