@ginandtonicbot said in How does scoring work?:
Because if I essentially win the game for my team by having the most kills and most resource gen, it doesn't reflect my performance in that game.
And it's not supposed to do that. Your rating is not reflecting your performance from your last game, but "slowly" approaches your true rating over time.
@ginandtonicbot said in How does scoring work?:
Minimally, why not give all players on the winning team the same rating change?
This is basically happening, but for people with more uncertainty the change affects their rating more and completely equalizing the point gain would also be weird, because the ratings in a team can be quite different and giving the 1k rated player +100 for the win would be as weird as giving the 0 rated guy +5.
@ginandtonicbot said in How does scoring work?:
I seem to be constantly in games where my team collapses, probably due to smurfing as mentioned above, my rating tanked, and now it's seemingly impossible to get any decent rating increases.
If your constantly winning your rating gains will also increase, to converge to your true rating faster.
@ginandtonicbot said in How does scoring work?:
How well did the player perform in that game
Another problem with supcom is, that it's possible to single-handedly win the game, if your far above your opponents, so it will quickly introduce toxic behavior of people who believe themselves to be that much better, so they can gain more rating, as (almost) all stats can be increased faster if all resources belong to you.
@ginandtonicbot said in How does scoring work?:
I am pretty sure this is why players go smurfing, set up multiple accounts, and basically cheat by playing themselves to get their ranking up.
I'm also pretty sure, there are not that many smurfs around in FAF (as it's banned compared to most other games) and i believe the mods are banning them quite well. It's also not just "basically" cheating, as this is also rating manipulation, which is also banned.
@ftxcommando said in How does scoring work?:
No, games like League use performance based metrics
They do? Thought it was also just win/loss.
But i guess it makes sense as the game sees little actual teamplay.