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why would you do that if it was fine for so long Cause i gathered from peoples post that 30 min matches is an issue. I think this is why the match length issue was brought up in teh first place. but i rather like the suggestiong that you let the players decide what number they want, its the most fa...

30 min is a magical number (the league started with that and always had that), people played 30 min for years now. and this means it can't be changed? every one thinks its to long and we have to use only 15 or 20min I thought that is the reason for a different match length, 30 min seemed to long fo...

If you mean to have just one fixed match length, not an option, i agree 100%. The actual length i don't really care, 20 minutes sound very good imho

if you want to do ONE matchtime, than take 30min. But in my eyes, letting the players decide (between 15 and 30 or 20 and 30 or 15,20 and 30) is a good thing to do. Of course all this has to be choosen in advance and not during the match. The cap limit is there to remove difficulties about that If ...

I don't have any objections to different match times other than 30 min. For all I care is we could even have 10 minute matches. But I do feel the concept of a league watered down by adding an option for several match length. I would rather see we settle on one match time, be it 10, 15 or 20 minutes ...

It is not the aim to just have cosmetically the number of matches look better, with more activity is ment that players actually spend more time on match servers. Two 15min matches of the same teams doesn't mean more activity than one 30min match. So if a good team is clever, it rather matches one we...

A completely different aproach with similar ideas is the following: Challenges Ladder Given a ladder with teams, a team can challenge only one of those teams that are a maximum of lets say 3 positions up the ladder. If the challenging team looses, nothing changes. If the challenging team wins, it ta...

A year ago i tried to set up something like this in the fun league . Every now and than it is a bit active and a bit not. Personally I see the fun league the first of the JALL (Jet Another League League), it was created about a year ago with the aim to generate more happenings on the ducati match se...

Personally, my vision of the league is what it was 2 years ago. I haven't played bzflag 2 years ago, so i wouldn't know What would have have to CHANGE to get back there, besides people's attitudes? And, how do we do that ? Well, one way is to go back 5 years and wait another 3 years. This seems to ...

You may delete this post if you think it is completely unfit. After so many debates and ideas proposed, what we have is a poll about match length. Players have given a lot of input. And i say a lot. The league is dying. All the good players have either: - teamed up in one team - left - stopped match...

:arrow: A "shame flag". I have read this some times ago on the forums but cannot find it again. It was a suggestion for a new flag; the holder of this flag would have funny colors, make a stupid sound when firing and so other things like that. That's wrebbels famouse humiliation flag, not...

You will find a very nice and great summary of all points made by SportChick here very nice SC, i couldnt post compliments in that topic, so i'll do it here:) There you will discover that basically the points you mentioned here are listed there and that many have already given good arguments why pen...

blue moon hehe Again, as orange and many others put it, what IS activity! Some very active people in the league and bz do not get to play but once in a blue moon because of time constraints. I think making that kind of restriction on members is too strong, and is a bad idea. 4: Council membership i...

I don't think we can limit or prevent people from changing teams, whether we are at the end of a season or not. Perhaps if folks know a season end is imminent, they will wait, but I think it should be left to the players to decide. (Mistake may not have meant for this to be mandated, but I just wan...

My Preferences and additional Ideas Season length: - 1 or 2 years I only play this game since about 1.5 years, and a lot can happen in this time, leagues die, new leagues come to live before a season is over - 4 - 6 month This gives all teams a fair amount of time to play matches and to participate...

The ELO ranking in chess describes what is the skill level of a player, meaning how hard it is to beat that player. It doesn't rate the players performance. The matches that determin the ELO rating of a player are usually those in the context of tournaments (championships) and competitions. Competit...

Seasonal League about: Team score modification (Activity factor) About teamrating and activity: Slowly i come to the conclusion that I would really prefer a rating that reflects the performance of a team in a certain time frame over that the rating is affected by the teams current activity rating. ...

About ELO System (from Wikipedia): - The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. - A statistical system, not a reward system - the rating "agenda" can sometimes conflict with the agenda of promoting activi...

menotume wrote: Also, i don't understand this one:

Admin or council members are not allowed to back up oppinions in private discussion but keep quite in public.

Probably a language barrier.

Hehe, i have choosen my points well so everybody has something to chew on

Look, I am pretty sure that all of my ideas are pretty far from reality, I posted them to illustrate what kind of league I want to play in, and with what kind of people I want to play with. If there was enough players in the ducati league that has no problem with actually playing matches, I wouldn't...

Hehe, I can see why you don't like the ideas.
Could say so many more things to you, but why bother.

I have a couple of other suggestions to make:

- you are only allowed to post after having played a match

Some suggestions: 8) Every team has to play every other team once every two (or longer periods) month. If two teams haven't matched in the course of two month, both teams loose 50 points (or a percentage of their current rating) :? Teams should be discouraged of teaming up to avoid having to match e...

I think the ducati league lost a lot of attraction since last years ME debates. The league has more or less been struggling since then. It very much was the birth of the "us and them" mentality which constituted itself in pickness about whom to match and resulted in that matches where not ...

Ok, no names, but I think, that certain team leaders, after multiple TKing in matches, should deserve some kind of punishment. As punishment, I think they should remove any match info update bugs on any league site code they might have written.

Nice would be a feature, that can store the favourite servers in the config file, add another menu entry next to "Find Server" called "Favourite Servers" that makes these stored servers available.