- Current cap is 100 points, lower it so that no loss costs an individual more than 50 points
Specifics:
- Change maximum loss to 50
This will improve the following aspects of the site:
- Currently cap of 100 is rarely utilized
- Losses of 60-75 points is frequent and largely due to dice and randomness
- Point loss cap of 50 will encourage higher ranks to play more games and variety of games because of decrease fear of drastic point loss
- Currently a game of someone with 2100 points playing someone with 700 has ability to gain 6 points and lose 60. A 54 point spread, the cap would only make a 44 point spread and make the option of playing someone of lower rank not that much of a nuissance.
- Higher ranked individuals are more effected by swings in points, a 60 point swing can lower or raise a rank for these individuals while a 60 point gain for a cook will hardly impact them. The system allows cooks to still have ability to gain many points in these games, just soften the burden to higher ranks slightly
- Overall benefits will allow for more games, less animosity in games between cooks and high ranks, more fair point distribution following games - 100 points for a loss is very dramatic and no win or loss should be worth that much because dice, drops, cards, etc. all play large roles in these games and are random.