if you want a pick lottery (warlords), i'd rather play it at 75% luck.

3v3 europe no cards, why not. It'd also be something new.

New rating: Well I like the idea of making those games not count that still have unfinished games prior to their created date.
Also, making only about 20 games count for the rating makes sense, because if you have 50 games affecting the rating, then it does not make much difference for the ratings if you win or lose your 51th game.
However I would make the 20 last games count for the rating, otherwise it'll take 3 months for new finished games to have any impact.

Mannerheim, the point of making the 15 first game cutoff is to prevent people from delaying losses. Suppose I start the ladder and I already have 12 wins, but in the remaining 2 games I am losing badly. I can increase my game count from 2 to 5, play new 3 games fast and delay 2 losses. In this scenario I end up with temporary 15-0 record. Now, with my idea I can obviously also get this 15-0 record, but I will not be rated yet, untill I finish my initial first 15 games. So supposing I don't have any newer games I will get my rating with a 15-2 record. In short, it does not allow any losses to be postponed from the initial 15 games.

Yes I understand this. That's why I said I like the idea of making the games not count that still have unfininshed games prior to their creation date.

Now if I play 50 games in a row, all of them are finished and the first one will expire in 2 1/2 months. This means that for almost 3 months, my latest 30/35 games will not be considered in the ratings although they are my most recent games and probably represent my skill level much better than the first 15/20. This is why I would prefer the last 20 to the first 20 to be the rating consideration.

Congrats Relite team (written by a relite groupie) is notable. but this isn't?

By these standards if i congratulate my alt for winning a tournament on a map i made, it would be notable...

LoL...Warlight Mafia

Congrats Relite team (written by a relite groupie) is notable. but this isn't?

Groupie - Slang an ardent fan of a celebrity, esp a pop star: originally, often a girl who followed the members of a pop group on tour in order to have sexual relations with them

More conventional:
2. An enthusiastic supporter or follower

First off...I don't follow Relite members around. It's all from the comfort of my own pc.
Secondly...Relite members are not popstars or rock stars.
Thirdly....I haven't had sexual relations with any of them.
Fourth...I'm neither a supporter nor follower of them in that sense. That would imply a certain difference and/or status difference between me and the mentioned group. Seeing as I myself am also respected as a person/player in the group I wouldn't term myself as being a supporter or follower (especially with regards to the April fool's joke in which I sort of chose my own path)

So Qi.....please refrain from calling me a groupie in the future. Thanks.

groupie.

Asshole

0% luck has always and shall forever remain a bad idea for a well balanced one versus one laddder. It was a bad idea the first time someone suggested it, and that hasn't changed after all this time.

Take away the extraordinarily small luck element that exists, and all you have is a system of situations and circumstances that are now almost entirely predictable. This problem exists greatly when you have two players that know exactly what they're doing. A game can be lost or won on the luck of picks much more easily. I personally don't like that.

I must agree with Samurai. I take this as game played for fun. If it is by someone considered as deadly serious competition, than i can understand removing luck, but still will not support such idea :)

For me no luck = no fun.

Just to avoid some kinds of reaction. Of course there is no direct proportion between luck and fun.

samurai, mirror - 0% with weighted random rounding...

yeah for sure 0% luck is better. (weighted random)

75% luck > 0% luck

Wouldn't it be fun if players could choose their own luck value? ;)

Asshole

ass·hole
[as-hohl] Show IPA

noun Vulgar.
1.
anus.

Um, actually, Gui isn't "the opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal, through which the solid refuse of digestion is excreted." In a metaphorical sense, he does excrete the refuse of digestion, but he is in no way part of the alimentary canal.

Hopefully you weren't hoping of becoming a lady proctologist, Dr. Dictionary.

hoping of becoming

Well Gui is surely as much an asshole as I'm a groupie......

Furthermore looking in the dictionary you will also find:
2. A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person.

Sort of fits Gui completely IMO

someone might have mentioned this already, not quite sure, but for the FFA ladder maybe if it made players anonymous then it would result in a better played ffa

yeah, if territories can have fog, players' names could too for FFAs to be fairer. no private chat too for those games, only public.