Edain Ranked Beta is Released! Hi everyone! As some of you already know, I have been working on a ranking web application for Edain, which allows us to submit replays and get a ELO-based score. Today, I am happy to release the first (beta) version of Edain Ranked!
You can find it here:
http://edainranked.com/Beta means:
-Expect some bugs!
-Some browsers might not be compatible yet. The website has been built and tested in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft Edge probably doesn't work.
-The website might be a bit slow sometimes, specially the first time you use it.
-The statistics are still in development. However, if somebody wants some concrete statistic information, contact me with your questions.
-I am looking forward to your feedback and suggestions. This is a project for you Edain Players and your contributions, ideas and criticism are welcome
Instructions:
-Register in the website with a valid email address. The email is used purely to validate users and recover password if needed.
-The webpage is totally public, except the Replay Upload part:
only registered users can be ranked and upload replays. Your submited games and replay data are therefore accessible to anyone over the internet.
-Once you register, you will be placed in the ranking with 1000 ELO points. To increase/decrease the ranks, submit replays!
-Replays are submitted in the "Upload Replay" section. You will need to be logged in, and you have to fill all the fields correctly. Most of them are autofilled or selectable so it is really quick.
Pay special attention to the player's names, select them from the suggested menu: if it is spelled wrong, the replay won't be saved. The game description is optional but recommended.
-The current ranking is displayed in the "Ranking" page.
-A complete list of the replays, including their download links, is available in "Replay Database".
Edain Ranked Beta Rules1. Game rules: Games will be played in selected maps from the map pool, and according to the following rules: 1k start, no ring heros or custom heros, no Arnor faction, no handicaps. Both random and picking faction are allowed. Everything else is also allowed ingame, except easter eggs (which are practically inexistent in our map pool, with some wildman exception
).
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Both players have to agree before the game that they will play ranked. To show that, put a "Clan tag" (for example: {ER}MaxPower) in the username. Once they agree, they have to play and accept the result, there is no way to change mind after the game.
3. All players involved need to be registered when submitting the replay, players without registration cannot participate in the rankings nor the ranked games.
4. Each player starts with 1000 ELO points, which will increase and decrease according to their victories or loses. The amount of points won/lost depends on the rating of both players. To update rankings, replays have to be submitted in the website. Each replay has some data to be filled by the uploader: all information has to be correctly submitted, if not: small punishment. The replay can be uploaded by any player, but it is recommended that the uploader is the winner of the game. In any case, the uploader is responsible for submitting accurate data to the system.
5. Each player can only have 1 account. Please use your known username.
6. Submitting fake replays or cheating in some way (replays where not both players wanted to play ranked, etc) will be punished.
7. To avoid microcosmos in the ranking (for example, 2-3 friends that only play between themselves and therefore are not ranked according to the general community, resulting in inaccurate scores), there will be a maximum of 5 simultaneous replays between the same 2 players allowed. After that, they cannot keep being ranked by playing each other and have to look for other partners. If even then we observe creation of microsmos, we will make this rules more strict.
8. For the moment, inactive players will retain their points. This will likely change in the near future, and also according to your feedback
9. All rules are subject to changes.
10. Replays will never be deleted unless there was a bug or the information posted was incorrect. Replay data will be used to generate much needed statistics that need as many replays as possible.
11. IF a game ends in out of sync, or because wildman invasion starts on FoI2, or by other unpredictable circumstances, the game won't be uploaded, unless both players agree on a clear winner.