The more you guys talk, the more I think that you might actually be lovers...

"You bitch [...] you do that when you please."

Kinky.

Smartest decision of the night:
Muting bullshoi.

finally! ok now that he's gone i can tell you all that zultar confided in me that he and sarg are elton john groupies.

but sarg denies it. to be honest i caught zultar with elton john posters, i think he brought sarg into it to make it seem like he's not the only one.

pretty soon nobody will see my posts except the moderators. what a shame. the world is not ready for bolshoi.

@bullshoi,
I'm sorry you don't understand, but given our past interactions, I suspect you don't actually care and are just looking to waste my time. This conversation is considered resolved.

just be happy you're in the top-30. i hoped for worse, but i can only tweak the rankings so much. otherwise i would be in there, because it clearly seems like i deserve it.

@bullshoi,
I'm sorry you don't understand, but given our past interactions, I suspect you don't actually care and are just looking to waste my time. This conversation is considered resolved.

i mean come on eden! i just looked at your games. one solo, a bunch of losses, then a bunch of 4+ way draws. i can't treat a 6-way draw the same as i treat a 3-way draw. maybe if i were just going for win/draw percent you'd do ok.

in the future, try to draw with fewer than 4 players.

@bullshoi,
I'm sorry you don't understand, but given our past interactions, I suspect you don't actually care and are just looking to waste my time. This conversation is considered resolved.

My suspicion, and I am open to correction, is that the problem with the GR system is that if you are a poor/moderate player who habitually plays with more skilled people, you will get a favourable GR score, as a function more of your draws than wins. In contrast if you are a moderately good player who generally plays with weaker opponents you will have a favourable Points score.
The really good players have both a high GR and Points score, while the converse is true for those of us who are more challenged.
In other words they are both reasonable systems, but they measure different things. If they are out of rough balance (as they are with me!), it is a good indicator of the choices one makes about the standard of games one chooses to join.
In the end though the game, in my view, is all about winning and the win percentage is a finer measure as any, for all of its faults.

I asked my wife about this subject, she said what was more important was the size of my manhood. No points, big willy is working for me !!

nigeebaby is a fake account that all the upper-echelon share. whenever upper-echelonians play, they get someone to login as nigeebaby and throw the game to the others. this keeps them rated above the commoners.

@bullshoi,
I'm sorry you don't understand, but given our past interactions, I suspect you don't actually care and are just looking to waste my time. This conversation is considered resolved.

Lol, I explained this a billion times, but I'll gladly repeat it: Carnivore scores are good for comparing beginners*. Not for experienced players.
*People with less than 20 sth games.

Neither of them matter, having fun does.

How can I compare GR if I am not ranked in it? It has not been updated since January!!

@all
Yikes, I check back and see that my post about the Carnivore Score started quite the argument. I was of course joking if that wasn't clear from my post. That said I agree with Redhouse that his system is useful for comparing new players, especially those of us that are too new to even have a GR.

So how about we all just agree that win percentage is the only thing that matters and that participation in any 6-7 player draws in the first couple years is disregarded from calculating that percentage.

Disclaimer: that was a joke too.

All of the systems are flawed including GR for the reasons mentioned above. That said, I think there is a strong case that GR is the most robust measure of skill.

Lordy people. This thread was created %100 entirely to fuck with Centurion1 because he's an asshat. It was never intended to be taken seriously.

@PE lol well played, sir.

I haven't read the thread, but I don't think any rating system can beat the points system for anybody who likes to take over Great Powers after they've already been reduced to micro-states.

I really want to get more points. And since I have no ghost rating, I think it's more important.

You're ranked 767th, KiNg.

King, the key to getting points is to not bet huge chunks of your pool.

I suggest betting no more than 1/7 of your maximum point pool in each game.

None of it matters. It's not real...

im pretty sure i dont have a ghost rating so i just go for points

New ghostratings went up today, everyone active on the site has one now.

I notice bolshoi is terrible. I wonder how he ranked himself :P

then what is my ghost rating?