Rating system for online games in Heroes of Might and Magic IV.

Maybe we can do without a rating altogether? Everyone plays for fun anyway! And it creates some kind of inequality: some will be cool, others will be losers. Let's just play!

Well, you've said something... :)

No, we can't do without a rating... After all, you'll agree that a rating adds interest, introduces a certain intrigue into the game, and even variety (now you win, and then I do, but sooner or later it will be known who is stronger), isn't that so? Inequality is a bad word, like someone plays badly? And it sounds offensive, it's better to proceed from the opposite: the word is LEADER - that's what people will strive for, what they will achieve, even if they are beginners... :)
And they will play anyway, but in the case of a rating, there is an additional criterion "for what", because it's better when you know how close I am to the best of the tournament participants...

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It seems normal. Non-participation should be valued worse than a loss. And a draw can be excluded :) How is it - a draw?

Well, maybe I'm not aware... But in Online, isn't there an even number of games in one stage?

What about agreed draws? So that neither of them gets a reputation penalty for non-participation and for not playing the match within the deadline, they agree on a draw and don't play at all :)

But there's nothing you can do about it - it can happen regularly anyway... Only words remain...

PS. And if you are talking about draws in the results of the entire tournament and someone's non-participation in the tournament, then their points will be added up from each individual match. Well, and if someone has the same number of points and the same place, then so be it - nothing terrible will happen.

well, it seems that's how it is ;)