The problem here is that Mrdummas is one of those people who don't take advice and instead will argue everything you say. For he is always right.
He is literally one of the "special" aeolus dwellers that belongs on the blacklist...
And while his point would hold true from anyone else, it doesn't hold when it's spoken by him of all people.
I have yet to hear any advice from the higher ranks. All they say is "stop playing", or "you're beyond hope", or "you play like an 800". And when I clearly ask what I did wrong they stay silent and refuse to talk. In game or after. Their ego simply does not allow them to explain anything.
This is what i meant when I say the higher ranks older players are the toxic element in the community.
When I have a problem with a lower ranked player doing something wrong, i literally tell them what they're doing wrong, and more importantly what they should have done. I dont blast away and leave them bewildered. The opposite is what is the arrogant higher ranks do. All they want to do is take frustration on the easiest target. Usually they are the ones who gave up way before the rest of the team, but wont admit it.
And I have no idea wtf you are. Who is this, is it Prophet? lol
No you don’t. I’ve literally seen you mock people that ask questions about the game or client for years in aeolus. I have never seen you help anybody in a public setting and eventually foed you to stop seeing garbage in aeolus.
@monstratus said in Why would you have left FAF?:
In my humble opinion, there is a serious lack of a good rating system. Just making sure dead players don't receive rating points would greatly improve the system. I will immediately say in response to the fact that many will say that there will be a lot of snipes
Why do you think there will be a lot of snipes?
when you win your opponents won't get any rating anyway, so why would you spend resources on snipes instead of on winning?
The problem is though that now the optimal move would be to win and in the last moment snipe all your teammates, so you are the only one gaining rating. Since the goal of the rating system is to be the top rated player, so the optimal strategy will be to maximize your rating gain, while minimizing that of every other player.
Guy holds a push back 15 minutes and uses acu explosion to blow up a key unit push, gets 0 points cuz his ally making epic gc killed everybody
wonderful
I think there's a key question that needs to be discussed here:
How do experienced players pass on what they know?
It's like experienced drivers being able to teach new drivers. At some point we automate how we drive; we don't think about all those checks of mirrors and the ability to seamlessly change down a gear, indicate, check lanes and talk at the same time. For some people it takes a lot of work just to be able to describe what they do. Other people learn how to describe this and can train new drivers.
In my experience (in ANZ FAF) there are lots of people who can tell you what to do in the moment, but can't describe why or how they decide to do that. The most obvious example of this is when people say "press shift-G and then ...." - when my shift-G may be mapped to something completely different. This doesn't tell me why to build exactly four generators, or why to build that particular unit mix, or how to manage the factories I have or to not power stall.
And the real point is that players build up habits - not just of which units or structures they build but also of how they analyze the map and plan out what to do. A good player will be subconsciously checking the power and mass meters all the time, and will be able to pause all factories to get through a power stall without really having to think. A really good player will never even power stall because they've seen that they're getting close to it and have just built enough power. An ordinary player like me will know to build this many power generators at this point in the game to avoid a power stall, but will still hit the stall at some point and have to consciously work at that point to get through it. A struggling player will hit a power stall and will spend a minute or more trying to deal with it, distracting them from the rest of the game.
How did the great player know to avoid the stall? They probably only vaguely recognise that condition. They could try to describe the things they do - build generators now, pause factories now, restart production now, etc. We need to try to describe how we came to that conclusion - when the power draw went from a minor issue to something to deal with to a major problem that takes their full attention.
So my general advice for players lower than me is:
I hope some of that's useful.
In general we can help new players stay with the game by being welcoming, by being fun to play with, and by helping when we can.
Matr1 said something helpful in a game I was in a while back. I was facing a player much higher rated than I am, and I was struggling. Someone on my team criticised me for not being able to fight back effectively. Matr1 said "Paul's a 900 - don't expect him to play like a 2000." Sometimes my role in the game is to be the ablative shield that slows down their attack for long enough that the other players on my team. That's not exactly fun, because I'm struggling constantly, and I can't balance my economy and my forces as well as a high rated player can. But I still serve a role. Criticising me because I'm not as good as you doesn't help anyone. Supporting me to help me be more effective - either by just being there in game with forces to help defend, or by telling me what I can be doing to help - makes it more likely that I'll improve.
Hope that all helps,
Paul
faf.mabula.net maintainer.
@ftxcommando said in Why would you have left FAF?:
Guy holds a push back 15 minutes and uses acu explosion to blow up a key unit push, gets 0 points cuz his ally making epic gc killed everybody
wonderful
Oh, who the F are you talking about.
@ftxcommando said in Why would you have left FAF?:
No you don’t. I’ve literally seen you mock people that ask questions about the game or client for years in aeolus. I have never seen you help anybody in a public setting and eventually foed you to stop seeing garbage in aeolus.
If it is within the game I will always help and explain.
I think i foed you for something similar, or either extreme rudeness. I sure havent seen you talking online for years. A good thing it appears, seeing you here.
It's cute that you have upvotes on your posts. Not that it counts for anything.
I think the support from the community is fine and ofc there will be flaming people. The whole topic should be on the system, not the operators, cause we can't change them, nor should we.
What I found quite demotivating is the rating display of a negative rating. Maybe 0 should be the bottom line.
@taxesaretheft that's probably a two edged changed, since that will cause you to be able to win games and your rating will not change, which can just be as demotivating.
Increasing all rating by a flat 1000 would also solve going into the negative. I don't think anyone has legitimately achieve a negative rating of -1000 before.
Although I guess the division system is already on track to hide the real rating a bit better, which is probably a better approach.
yeah, that was one of the aims of the division system. With the latest server update we finally have the infrastructure in place to also show the correct divison in the replay info of matchmaker games, so expect this soonTM
@misterdumass The point FTXcommando is making is that decisions that increase your teams chance of winning a match should NEVER penalise your rating gained.
They should, ultimately, increase your rating.
Rating is supposed to represent a player's ability to win games.
(If elaboration is needed: You implied that any dead commanders should gain no rating - but suiciding an ACU can be the MVP move of an entire match.)
@paulway many of those don't apply to all supreme commander game types - some are even counterproductive. For the sake of those "players lower than me" that you're aiming it at, is it worth a quick edit?
@nex said in Why would you have left FAF?:
@monstratus said in Why would you have left FAF?:
In my humble opinion, there is a serious lack of a good rating system. Just making sure dead players don't receive rating points would greatly improve the system. I will immediately say in response to the fact that many will say that there will be a lot of snipes
Why do you think there will be a lot of snipes?
when you win your opponents won't get any rating anyway, so why would you spend resources on snipes instead of on winning?
The problem is though that now the optimal move would be to win and in the last moment snipe all your teammates, so you are the only one gaining rating. Since the goal of the rating system is to be the top rated player, so the optimal strategy will be to maximize your rating gain, while minimizing that of every other player.
I think the problem with the rating system is not that there will be a lot of snipes (I just assumed that). The problem is that even those players who died receive ratings, even if the team won, so there is a strong imbalance. If we made it so that only the survivors would receive ratings, it would be much better...
@monstratus said in Why would you have left FAF?:
I think the problem with the rating system is not that there will be a lot of snipes (I just assumed that). The problem is that even those players who died receive ratings, even if the team won, so there is a strong imbalance. If we made it so that only the survivors would receive ratings, it would be much better...
There are lots of games that I hard carry but die in a desperate snipe attempt from the enemy team. Why shouldn't I get points if I crush their team but then die due to the last guy going suicidal tele or something stupid? Frankly, I've seen the rating system be pretty solid if you exercise some common sense around it. Meaning if some dude is a 1600 gapper, I generally would trust him to be 1600 on gap but then on Seton's or map gen he'll be a 1200. Same deal if you stick a 1600 setoner on gap.
The issue that comes up is if someone is an 1800 air player but 1k everything else and is rated 1300 or w/e. He'll play like a 1k in most slots but then crush air, never being his actual rating. There are no rating systems that can account for that in a game like FAF though, it's quite impossible.
There are exceptions where people get troll ratings, but those are just that, exceptions, and all rating systems have them.
I have rarely seen such a case when a skilled player dies out of stupidity. But I have often seen cases where high-rated players (whom it seems to me do not justify their rating) die first, while average players win the match for them. I have also often seen that very mediocre players (including me) get points by dying out of stupidity. It still seems to me that if those who did not survive the match did not receive points, it would be fair...
Ideally, the rating system for rts should be completely different, it should take into account the overall benefit the player brought during the entire match, this is influenced by many factors such as the number of kills of the opponent, the amount of mass killed, etc. But as I understand it, it is difficult to develop. I think the rating system in a 1 on 1 match works perfectly, but in group battles 8 on 8 for example, also taking into account that a person on the gap can get 1500 and on the generated map he will play like 200...
