The inventory page says those stars can be sacrificed for the chance at something better. Is that just a better (rarer) star? Are the stars just for bragging rights, or is there something they're used for? I saw a bunch of stars mentioned on the tournament pages. Do you need to have those starts to ...

Ah, never mind. I found them. They're inventory items that can be "sacrificed" to the "CC gods." LOL And I guess they're awarded at random...?

Back on CC after a several year hiatus. I missed this game. :)

Something new (to me) I notice whenever I log in is I'm awarded a "star." This morning's was the "drab star." What are these? I did some searching and found that they're used in the tournaments, but I can't find a definition chart or ...

The port could accurately be downtown but used by armed forces to send boats up and down the river to bombard riverside points uptown :D
Yeah, I could probably sneak a nautical-themed icon into Bonnie Doon (where the dock is). It would basically have the same function as the airport, except it can ...

danalan wrote:I've carried the concept over to the graphics, with the circles being in Wanted posters.

I like how you changed it to a "Wanted" style and changed to a more Wild-West map backdrop, but all the labels are gone...

In a warfare situation, the riverboat might be used to bombard points along the river...
Good point. I'm wondering how I'd fit that in, though. The port is downtown, and that area of the map is already pretty crowded. I could always put the port in the northeast or southwest, but that would make ...

... being from Missouri and knowing something of its troubled post-Civil War history, I can't help but feel slighted that only Cole Younger made it onto the map- at the very least, where's the James Gang? :(
Danalan started to research the famous outlaws of Missouri, but his brain exploded at the ...

The biggest thing that I don't like is the wide openess of the map. Let's see some choke points where I can take an hold. The bonuses look impossible to get.
Hrm... What about if you could cross area boundaries (e.g., Downtown to Southgate, West Edmonton to St Albert, etc.) only via the LRT ...

... replace the outlaws with cities and the lawmen with capitals.
That would remove one of the major reasons I like this idea. There's already a map for the Western USA using cities and capitals. The lawmen/outlaw take gives it a unique twist.

There's no longer anything "Wild West" about it now ...

I like this. I probably wouldn't be much help in the map-making process, but you have my vote of support for this one.

I didn't get any replies to my earlier post, but I made a preliminary map anyway. Maybe this will get people's attention (hell, even a "this idea sucks" would be better than silence).

Here's the large version of the map (798x800):
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x43/temporos/Edmonton-CC-Map-Lg ...

Wow, you really are taking this Online gaming site to heart.
I do nothing half-assed. That includes on-line gaming sites and forums. I expect nothing less than pure logic from myself and everyone else. If one doesn't take Conquer Club "to heart," then perhaps he should find something that is more ...

You know what? Fine. Screw it. I'm rescinding all the ratings I've given, and I'm not rating anyone any more. This whole system is a farce. I give up; you status-quo-ers win. Frankly, your mass illogic has beaten me into not caring any more.

Whatever. You people do whatever you want. I will continue to rate people as described in the Instructions . I refuse to subscribe to the "everybody wins" or "5 stars as default" mindset. If you don't impress me in a match, then you're average, and you deserve three stars.

I'm done with this flame ...

ccatman wrote:people who actually deserve 5.0 ratings right now will not get it ever

Take a statistics course no one "deserves" a perfect score.

jrh_cardinal wrote:it has a poll because the OP started a poll

The above statement is false.

my facts overrule yours
... :-s Aaaaaaaaand you're no longer allowed to argue, since you clearly have no capacity for logic. Facts cannot "overrule" other facts. A passing glance at any philosophy 101 textbook will show this.

Basically, anyone opposed to this idea is just scared that they'll lose ...

think about things like youtube if you see a video you like you give it 5 stars if you dont like it you give it 1 stars people dont just go giving 3 star ratings on these kinda sites
I gave out 3 star ratings all the time on YouTube. I can't anymore, since they changed to a thumbs-up/thumbs-down ...

Can't exactly use that in every argument, because if it doesn't work, and everyone starts complaining, then someone will have to go through and negate any 0 rating that was given to the players as they change it back to old system.
Uh... One short perl script would fix that, if anyone wanted to ...

A lack of ratings won't tell much either ;) So he has a 0.1 rating. Maybe he played 100 games, and only got rated by 20 players, and the rest didn't. That wouldn't accurately portray how skilled the opponent is.
I believe the point of half this thread is that the proposed system cannot be any ...

*shrugs* Whatever. I'm going to rate players according to the defined scale. If they don't impress me (good or bad), then they are average, and they deserve a 3.

Temporos... it pisses me off when you say I never say why it will be any worse...
I don't believe I ever said that. Yes, I wasn't the only one mentioned in that paragraph, but if you're going to make accusations, you must be specific and distinct.

I am curious about why you are becoming so ...

I do not understand the "everbody's a winner" attitude that motivates people to rate everyone as "outstanding" (5 stars).

The system is broken (i.e., it doesn't work as designed). There are three possible solutions to this:
Do nothing. CC goes on using a ratings system that has become absolutely ...

jrh: Why are you so fiercely opposed to this idea? Is it because you're worried about losing your 4.7 "above average - outstanding" rating and being seen as merely "average" (which is what 4.7 represents now)?

You are correct in that only 5%-ish of the CC players will deviate further than 0.1 or 0 ...

On the current system nobody has ratings below 4 and THAT we know is not true.
The current ratings system reflects the current mindset in the developed world right now: "Everybody's a winner!"

In the real world, not everyone is above average.
Don't tell the public school system that... :roll: