yeah, same here, can we get some kind of a deadline postpone?
it seems half of you still do not understand how the points calculation worked this season(lastpunisher for one)..
Everyones two worst results WERE actually removed(including zeros or whatever happned to be your worst). What screwed rudi up pretty bad was, that people who did not show up at all to one or many events(only one event in Rudis case) got penalised pretty bad for that(pretty bad as in Rudi he lost more than 100 points for that).
Lastpunisher on the other hand... as far as i understood from his post, participated in ALL the events so it does not matter that you didnt finish 2 of them... those 2 were completely excluded from the final points calculation but you still got the "bonus" for showing up for all races.
Everyones two worst results WERE actually removed(including zeros or whatever happned to be your worst). What screwed rudi up pretty bad was, that people who did not show up at all to one or many events(only one event in Rudis case) got penalised pretty bad for that(pretty bad as in Rudi he lost more than 100 points for that).
Lastpunisher on the other hand... as far as i understood from his post, participated in ALL the events so it does not matter that you didnt finish 2 of them... those 2 were completely excluded from the final points calculation but you still got the "bonus" for showing up for all races.
could everyone PLEASE come back to the topic at hand? this isn't a bashing competition.
And let me explain a little more why this 20% rule is so important to some.... the ones racing for the championship normally. Because they are the ones who suffer the most from these unforseen accidents. Anyone racing for the 100th place will not care even half as much about this topic as it wont really change the fun part of racing here for him.
Oh, and to make things simpler so we wouldnt need some ridiculously complicated formula for the 20% rule... instead we should just announce before every season how many worst results will be deducted from the final standings. That way everyone can follow the results and possible final standings easily. And perhaps make a rule... that for every 5th race we will allow 1 worst event to be removed. So in a 4 event season we will have NO worst event removed, in a 5 event season there will be ONE worst result removed, in a 9 event season there will still be only ONE worst result removed.... For 10 to 14 events there will be TWO worst results removed.... etc.
Sorry for my scattered posts... doing this at work inbetween... errr... well... working
Oh, and to make things simpler so we wouldnt need some ridiculously complicated formula for the 20% rule... instead we should just announce before every season how many worst results will be deducted from the final standings. That way everyone can follow the results and possible final standings easily. And perhaps make a rule... that for every 5th race we will allow 1 worst event to be removed. So in a 4 event season we will have NO worst event removed, in a 5 event season there will be ONE worst result removed, in a 9 event season there will still be only ONE worst result removed.... For 10 to 14 events there will be TWO worst results removed.... etc.
Sorry for my scattered posts... doing this at work inbetween... errr... well... working
IMHO (and my opinion is the one that counts!!! ) the 20% allowed missed races is a MUST in an online game like this... Not only because you sometimes just cant show up... but there are plenty of times when something totally unexpected happens(Lag, some idiot ramming you out for fun... etc). I do understand that EVERYONE has a chance of that happening but at only 10 races per season it will not even out. So we use the 20% rule to even it out for the most part so the disadvantages of online gaming will not show so badly...
Secondly, if we get 100 points per event versus 10 points in F1 we would have to have 10 times more races to allow you to have one engine failure for the whole season... that is just NOT good for anyone... more luck, and noone driving at the top level wants ANYTHING to do with luck, because luck is a factor that is NOT up to you.(I can understand some of the lesser drivers wanting as much luck as possible ofcourse ).
And about the "voting".... i actually have stated this multiple times before... peaople in masses are just plain stupid most of the time. It works much better if everyone just gives theyr ideas and then the people who actually think things through will make the decision.
) the 20% allowed missed races is a MUST in an online game like this... Not only because you sometimes just cant show up... but there are plenty of times when something totally unexpected happens(Lag, some idiot ramming you out for fun... etc). I do understand that EVERYONE has a chance of that happening but at only 10 races per season it will not even out. So we use the 20% rule to even it out for the most part so the disadvantages of online gaming will not show so badly...Secondly, if we get 100 points per event versus 10 points in F1 we would have to have 10 times more races to allow you to have one engine failure for the whole season... that is just NOT good for anyone... more luck, and noone driving at the top level wants ANYTHING to do with luck, because luck is a factor that is NOT up to you.(I can understand some of the lesser drivers wanting as much luck as possible ofcourse
).And about the "voting".... i actually have stated this multiple times before... peaople in masses are just plain stupid most of the time. It works much better if everyone just gives theyr ideas and then the people who actually think things through will make the decision.
Ideas for final points calculation
Well, obviously, as many of you have noticed, the formula on the stangings page this season was pretty heavily flawed. Maybe some of you have good ideas for how to do it the next season....
I find that the simpler it is the better, heres what i would go with...
If it were a 10 event season again heres how it would go...
(Total number of points)-(number of points for two worst events)-10x(number of events missed)
That way you could still miss that crucial one race when your brother in law had his wedding and not get any major penalties. The -10 points will be deducted for every missed race so that anyone who actually DOES show up for every race will have a small advantage over someone who didnt.
Oh, and im all for -100 points for anyone saying theyll show up for a race and then not coming
Oh, and one more thing... By these calculations Prophet would still have won Ruditurbo this season, by 4 points And only because prophet showed up for all races and ruditurbo missed one(But he could still have made up for it if he were a better driver!).
My 5 cents
dev
I find that the simpler it is the better, heres what i would go with...
If it were a 10 event season again heres how it would go...
(Total number of points)-(number of points for two worst events)-10x(number of events missed)
That way you could still miss that crucial one race when your brother in law had his wedding and not get any major penalties. The -10 points will be deducted for every missed race so that anyone who actually DOES show up for every race will have a small advantage over someone who didnt.
Oh, and im all for -100 points for anyone saying theyll show up for a race and then not coming
Oh, and one more thing... By these calculations Prophet would still have won Ruditurbo this season, by 4 points
And only because prophet showed up for all races and ruditurbo missed one(But he could still have made up for it if he were a better driver!).My 5 cents
dev
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Well, this must have been one of the best races i have had in olfsl(pool1) very close and intense and quite clean... until of course.. err... go watch the pool1 commentary
Had fun yesterday anyway, thanks to everyone in pool1, and thanks to the OLFSL crew ofcourse.
Had fun yesterday anyway, thanks to everyone in pool1, and thanks to the OLFSL crew ofcourse.
I must say i'm getting the same error message
just lie heh.... what they dont know cant hurt them
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