Congrats murraysheroes

Hey, stupidfighter:

http://i.imgur.com/r4mVTgX.jpg

We would all be better off if you took your own advice JamieT

Congrats Murraysheroes!
Speaking of ghost rating I'll be interested to see how my live rank changes with four consecutive soloes..

But I do like it here, ssoorreenn. Please abandon your futile and petty personal vendetta against me. Thanks.

Congrats, Murrayheroes!
It is a nice feeling when you break the top 100 GR. :)

Congrats Murrayshoes, I have played with you and you are deserved of your status.

@jamiet, I have no vendetta against you, you don't make my radar ever, your not worthy.

"It is a nice feeling when you break the top 100 GR."
It's even nicer when you do it without farming it off of noobs.

Wow ghug, that quite cruel.

That's true, ghug. No doubt about it.
Not sure why ghug dislikes me, but that's ok. I shall exempt myself from further discussion.

Well that star gives you that privilege.

Nah, you're a pretty good player when you play real competition. I just find the noob farming odd.

Sounds to me like Ghug doesn't understand how GR calculations work. I played PlayDip. NMRs all the time and an absolutely crap interface and the most god awful garish color scheme. The one here is bad enough, but somehow those guys managed to make it worse

I do understand how GR calculations work. Zultar's a good enough player to beat noobs an inordinate percentage of the time, and thus he can quickly increase his GR by beating up on them repeatedly.

We need more nice friendly threads like this :-)

@Ogion, Ghug is right. Zultar and I have both taken over significant number of games. Since when you're a mod you rarely have time to play through an entire game. I personally enjoy taking over moderate position games 6-9 centers and playing them through as a gunboat, where I engage in limited or no communication. Don't ask me why, it's just entertaining for me. I normally win when I take over a game with mostly noobs, which skyrocketed my GR. It was not my intention, but it was a side effect of my style of play. However once you get high enough playing against only noobs stops advancing you, somewhere around the 100 mark from what I've noticed. From there you have to beat solid players to make further jumps.

You'll always gain points from winning. And congrats MH.

Congrats MH! I used to be in the top 100 but inflation bumped me out :(

Be there soon, bro!

The number of point you get in an Elo system declines sharply when you beat opponents you are ranked a lot higher then. In effect since the expectation for an expert playing noobs is that the expert wins a high proportion of the time, the term (result - expectation) is correspondingly low for a win, but large for a loss. On average, an accurately ranked expert player will not see upward movement from playing a lot of games against noobs because the upside is small and the downside is large. This means you can boost your ranking in your ranking is inaccurately low, but once you have played enough that your ranking is relatively accurate then playing noobs won't help you ranking much and might even hurt it. That is precisely how the Elo rankin scheme is supposed to work. Murraysheroes hasn't played a lot of games so the GR is still converging on his "true" ranking

I do wonder what one's GR would be if one simply played reasonable moves and did not ever NMR.

Yes. The thing about diplomacy noobs, however, is that they often have next to no understanding of the game, and you're still gaining a somewhat significant amount of GR points when you beat them, regardless of your own ranking, so by mercilessly and repeatedly destroying them, you can raise your GR past your true level.

Zultar's probably a top-100 player anyway. I was just jumping on an opportunity to make fun of him, because that's what I do.

Congrats murraysheroes!

@ ssoorreenn: "I have no vendetta against you, you don't make my radar ever, your [sic] not worthy."

Right. Despite the fact that you join threads specifically to hurl foul abuse at me. It must be fun living in your fantasy world. Given how much abuse you personally direct at me, at every possible opportunity, when I'm not even on your radar, I'd hate to think how much you'd give me when you *noticed* me, you cunt.

@Jamiet,
You and ssorenn are derailing this thread. Please stop. Also given your stance on language use and forum decorum, I find it a bit hypocritical that you are cursing ssorenn out, particular using language that you yourself have condemned in the past.

I make a special case for ssorenn specifically based on the way he pursues me around the forum. If you can find a single case of a thread where I attacked him, out of nowhere, *before* he poured foul abuse on me, I'll apologise. Otherwise all I am doing is to defend myself.

My complaint has never been about language, per se.

Curious - is it now a violation of site rules to "derail a thread"? Because I can't recall ever seeing a thread that stayed on topic forever. Good lord...

Krellin, shut up.

@Jamiet, if you feel that someone is being abusive over multiple threads then please shoot an email to the mod email.

I don't always post on the forum...

But when I do, it's 'cause I'm awesome and cracked the Top GR 100.'

Stay Thirsty My Friends! ;) (Congrats.) :)

JMO - Excuse me, sir, was there a site rule violation in my question? I just find it odd that someone was called out for breaking from the OP, and I'm trying to figure out the rules. Are you a testy little boy...