The thing is that it's not constantly diminishing... it's a bit unpredictable... from 6 to 11 for demo? I don't know man, I'm really skeptical about factoring in the number of submissions. Merely being able to complete a map hardly means anything anyways imo. Anyone can submit a multi-hour time.
Fair enough but I still consider finishing a map to be something, but not groundbreaking by any means. Still deserving of points, but not 80+ for a several hour run.
I also don't believe in heavily weighting the later stages. It can be just as hard to speedrun an easy map as a hard map. Perhaps some weight to the later ones, but not a huge amount.
Weighting the maps would be a lot easier if we could agree on a number that defines how difficult a map is. BUT that's entirely impossible because it's trying to objectify subjective data.
Not too sure about what you mean about golf score thing. Anyways the thing I want to change with a point system revision is to enable someone who misses a stage but still does really well (like top 3 in the rest) will still have a chance of winning. From the sounds of it, the golf thing isn't fixing that (as you're placing someone who misses a stage into last place???) As it is, once you miss a stage, you pretty much lose all chance of placing highly, which is I don't think is good.
Personally I think people should be penalized if they don't submit and can definitely finish the map. This feeling mostly comes from my
one week rant but that's just me. To make it fair for a person who does well but can't finish stage # for whatever reason is the difficult bit. And there really isn't a way to do that without either ruining the not as good people's scores or massively inflating their scores.
The golf score would basically make it so a person's place is their score. So to fix the golf idea I think averaging a person's total golf score by their number of runs then the closest to 1 at the end wins. BUT this is the same as not using golf scores and still averaging with their total number. Both of these lead to a chance at stealing first (or whatever). So that wouldn't work very well either.
With the bonus point thing I think this is a good idea the only issue is how big the bonus' will be... I think basing the stage bonus off some logarithm or exponent of something. Or asking everyone what the bonus should be based on difficulty, average the answers, round down, and that's the bonus.
Fortunately I have an even better idea.
Fuck points. Give cookies.
Seriously though. I had an idea that seems really stupid... Anyway create a voting system. Make it so people would see the times and places for everyone (google docs), then rank everyone by how well the voter thinks the others did overall. So voters would choose overall 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. I think this is stupid, but could work, I highly doubt it though. Also this would just turn into a popularity contest very quickly.
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