porkenbeans wrote:YES it does. Besides, it is NOT a question of "fair". It is only a question of fact. I think that you and others, are confusing the "most popular" with the "best" map. There are thousands of people that play here. Any single player, is NOT going to corrupt the numbers.mibi wrote:porkenbeans wrote:I have often thought that the start a game, or game finder page, should have the monthly top 20 most popular games listed. This list would take only 1 thing into account, and that is ,(simply), # of new games started each month. NOT games in progress.
All of this talk about formulas, and how to somehow even out the disparagy, that may or my not exist, between small and large maps, is nonsensical. If Doodle, or some other map is more popular because of it's size, ...so be it. Why a map is more popular, can be debated till the cows come home. But no amount of debate can change the facts of which maps ARE the most popular.
if only it were that easy. what about players who start 250 games of 1v1 CC mogul to far on over the course of a month? Or you have one player who only plays Crossword, but does it 100 times a month, counteracting 100 separate players who each play Midgard. Does that seem fair.
If you want a list of the "best" maps, then I suggest that you use a poll , where each player is only allowed to cast a single vote. Then I believe that you will get the list that you are looking for.
I will take a guess right now as to what is the top map in popularity. I see an awful lot of Feudal's started. That and Age of Realms.
Your not understanding.
Say it take twice as long to finish a game on Map A than it does on map B. Presuming they are equal in popularity, then Map B will still have more games played on it as the people that like it will finish games twice as quick so they can start new ones a lot quicker.