The TJT wrote:Percentages can be changed etc. How about 100-50-25-10-5? I think getting one first place is atleast 2 times harder than getting 2nd place.
I think the net result of that is if a highly skilled gamer thinks they can get the top or 2nd place score then they will do it. otherwise they likely wouldn't bother because it's not worth it ...leaderboard points wise.
On the other hand, those ABC submitters don't mind playing to get only a handful of points per submission will gladly play to get 4th and 5th place for only a handful of points.
I think 100-50-25-10-5 is too harsh UNLESS you are talking about the alternate place scoring analogous to the current 10-3-1 scoring. The 100-50-25-10-5 would be an improvement over the 10-3-1 place weight.
By a set "50" for 2nd you have no idea how close that 2nd place score is to 1st place unless you actually lookup the scores. That doesn't reveal as much information.
it's also unfair IMHO in cases where the top player has 10 times the 2nd place score versus both being really close.
ie. take balloon fight. If you were to submit a score of 1.5 million now, it doesn't change your points at all, but would drastically lower the points everyone else receives for their scores for the game. So in a sense you are gaining points versus the others that played that game by setting a new high for yourself.
With a set 100-50-25-10-5 system, it doesn't matter if your score is only 10 points higher than mine or 1 million points higher. The LB points all receive for scores for that game don't change from that new score submission.
I think the LB points awarded still has to have a nearly proportionate weighting based on the actual game scores.
For MOST, the current system works fine. If you view the ordering of the leaderboard using the 10-3-1 points system, the ordering is largely the same as using the 0-100 LB points system. Yes, there are a couple major changes...like Frankie not even in the top 10 and Novice and a couple others moving up 5-10 spots, but at least in the top 20...overall not really a huge difference between the 2 point systems.
the real flaw in the current leaderboard is simply those that have submitted tons of scores getting 5-10 LB points for most of those scores each which still adds up.
The problem is for some games the gamer maybe put in a real effort and played the game a lot just to get 7th place. They shouldn't be treated the same as someone who submitted 50 scores all for rom sets starting with the latter "g" on the same day.
Maybe the only thing that really needs to be done is limit members to 3 uploads per day or something similar. Yes, in the long term those ABC submitters could still work up to 1000+ submissions...but at least you are making them spread it out over a year or 2 versus now where certain days you view the uploads page and you see the last 50 hits are all by 1 gamer.