[Freeciv] Re: summary of ranking problems/questions

[Horn Gábor <Horn.Gabor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI!


> Problem: Best way to reach the top is to only fight weaker players.
> 
> This is not the kind of behaviour we want to encourage. I do not know ELO,
> but is it not possible to penalise playing too many consequtive games
> against only weaker players?
> 


Well i was thinking about calculating an index for each game for the 
players, which would show the average points of all the players
in the game excluding himself. It would reflect if somebody plays 
weaker or stronger players. The ELO itslef doesn't have any penalty
for such behaviour, just the fact that you get less points (but
with mucg bigger chance) with killing weaker players only. We can 
change it of course, but i have no good idea atm how to do it
better. 

bye, hirisov