does it mean you ae online?

sorry didnt mean to post hear

Thing is that its not exactly like poker. If you have 3k points worth in games, it means something, that you're good enough to deserve a ranking.

If I play a poker tournament that cost me 5$ and you do the same with a tournament that cost 100$, does it means we're uqually good since our pockets are empty?

You can have money to play poker because you're rich, here you have points because you showed some skills, I think the rankings should be more accurate for that specific issue.

I think it would raise the number of high stakes games as well since players wont have to hold off their points to have a decent ratings (some people do have pride about that... me included!!!).

That was my 2 cents, I think it would just make the game to actually see what the player you're facing has accomplished before.

You can see what the player you're facing has accomplished before by viewing his profile.

I'm not sure, but I think that for a short while Kestas did have on the 'Gross Value' points - visible only through the little table at the bottom of a game. I would like to have them, but debugging is more important

@Feckless Clod
Of course you can check all the games for a given players, but having more accurate rankings is just a lot lot shorter way to have an idea of who you are facing.

I still advocate showing games won + games played (eg 3/10) next to players names rather than Diplo points. I think that's a more meaningful indicator to other players, and wouldn't affect the running of the Diplo points system - players would still know how many points they had to bet, and could still look at the Dip-points ranking table.

We got those percentages beside the profile already.

What I most want to gain is the ability to see someones recent stats. I expect I am not alone in having joined this site barely knowing the game, and learnt to play through numerous errors here. People then improve, and their later games have better performances, and the statistics are unbalanced...

but the % stats are also potentially quite misleading.... you might have won all your games against newbies with lots of countires going CD, but never survive when playing higher stakes.

So the points system is fairer in that also reflects the standard of game you've done well in or not.

It might be useful to - at some point - have the points updated each Autumn during the course of a game as your SC count goes up/down to reflect the share of the pot you'd get if the game ended there and then. But not a priority I don't think.