Here's a thought about leaderboard scoring. How about only giving confirmed recordings points, those that are unconfirmed should get no points or have reduced (by 75% or so) points. Or perhaps at least add an option to the leaderboard to discount unconfirmed recordings. Maybe this will help curb some of the "lame recordings" and "points leeching".

I await everyone's thoughts...

-- Barry Rodewald (bsr@hn.pl.net), December 17, 1999

Answers

That's a good idea, but there are just too many good recordings that would go unconfirmed since there are not many confirmers. Effectivley it'll just reduce the scoring to who ever can get 1rst or second place.

I think since there are a limited number of confirmers and recordings should be innocent untill proven guitly, the way to do it would be to strike the score of recordings if they use a banned technique. This could be applied only to the new tgmame leaderboard for the people who want to keep the regular leaderboard the way it is.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), December 18, 1999.

Yeah... that's what I think we need to do:

1. Keep the regular leaderboard as it is - with a more leinient rule structure.(there's still no autofire allowed and the like...) The leaderboard markdown shouldn't take place here.

2. The TG MAME leaderboard will have a MUCH greater strictness involved. Like no autofires period, keep your speed at a decent level, etc. This MAY be where the unconfirmed markdown could take place, except the markdown should be... 25 %?(so if you get 100 pts and it's unconfirmed, you would get 75 pts until it was confirmed)

3. The tournament is the same thing as 2, except you have to use TG settings, whatever they will be. No markdown here, because we confirm all of the games here.(or pretty darn close to it)

Of course that's only how I look at things...

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), December 18, 1999.

I think that a good solution to avoid broken inp to take points is adding a flag to the confirm option. Now we can confirm it (if it is good) but we cannot do nothing if it is broken.How about adding a confirm bad option? If a game is confirmed bad it won' t take points until the owner of the record will demonstrate that it works (or someone will demonstrate it). This idea is to avoid (like it is happened) that if someone posts a message on the board about broken inps nothing happens. If you see the current leaderboard you' ll see that BBH is 2nd for about 300 points and German Krol is 1st with 3 broken inp (invinco - invds - invho2) that assign to him 300 points. With a confirm bad option it wouldn' t been happened. I think this is better than lowering (25% or 75% i don' t remember) because it will be probably first not the best player but only the player that have more confirmed scores (I can also create a virtual player and confirm them and if the inps are correct noone can stop this)

-- A.D. SAKURAGI (adeidda@newmail.net), December 20, 1999.

If we (zwaxy :) ever get a chance to impliment a good confirm/bad confirm in the scoring, there should also be the storage of who confirmed it good/bad, to possibly prevent the virtual player confirming scheme.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), December 20, 1999.

Yes, I agree with you.

-- A.D. SAKURAGI (adeidda@newmail.net), December 20, 1999.