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Re: A true visionary!
Posted By: RC Master	Date: 3/5/12 8:11 p.m.
In Response To: Re: A true visionary! (ChrisTheeCrappy) : While I agree that overall experience is not TrueSkill. How does not games : mean you are a 25? That's the way TrueSkill is designed. If you start 'new' players in the middle that means, by virtue of the way the the skill distributing works, there is a 50% chance that the player's actual skill is above that, and a 50% chance that their skill is below that. Plus, the majority of players' skills are bunched around the middle anyway, so it is more more likely to get close games quickly unless the new players' skill differs drastically from the average (very high or very low skill). Conversely if you start new players at zero, there is a 99% chance that their skill is above that - people who are actually low skilled will get stomped on a lot, by players who may only be average skill. Now you know why Halo 3's implementation of TrueSkill sucked for matchmaking. : Granted this is personal opinion, but you should start : at 0 and maybe be bumped up to higher if you are say a 40 in a different : playlist that you play alot. That goes beyond what TrueSkill tries to achieve and the lack of such considerations is a criticism of both TrueSkill itself and the way it is used in games like Halo: Reach. : But to start you out at 25 means you : immediately can be put with people who are a 40, which can mean total : domination. Well I've no idea exactly how loose the matching is in Reach. But you can also balance teams using TrueSkill to maximise draw probability. As a crude example: Red has a 40 and a 25, and Blue team has a level 38 and 26 - so together the assumption is both teams are roughly equal. : I do like the idea of starting in the middle and then being moved around but : that only works for the first 3 weeks of a game, after that there are too : many other variables for that to be a great starting point. What do you mean?

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T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	ChrisTheeCrappy	3/5/12 12:07 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	Phoenix_9286	3/5/12 12:20 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	ChrisTheeCrappy	3/5/12 12:23 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	Phoenix_9286	3/5/12 12:28 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	ChrisTheeCrappy	3/5/12 12:45 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	Phoenix_9286	3/5/12 1:03 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	RC Master	3/5/12 4:33 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	ChrisTheeCrappy	3/5/12 6:09 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	RC Master	3/6/12 5:14 a.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	ChrisTheeCrappy	3/6/12 8:59 a.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	Compton	3/5/12 1:59 p.m.
A true visionary!	RC Master	3/5/12 12:55 p.m.
yeah, what a joke *NM*	kidtsunami	3/5/12 3:12 p.m.
Re: A true visionary!	Pkmnrulz240	3/5/12 4:32 p.m.
Re: A true visionary!	RC Master	3/5/12 5:25 p.m.
Re: A true visionary!	ChrisTheeCrappy	3/5/12 5:53 p.m.
Re: A true visionary!	RC Master	3/5/12 8:11 p.m.
Re: A true visionary!	stabbim	3/5/12 8:36 p.m.
Re: A true visionary!	ChrisTheeCrappy	3/6/12 9:11 a.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	Flynn J Taggart	3/5/12 1:37 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	Louis Wu	3/5/12 1:41 p.m.
Re: T-Squared Talks Halo4 Wishlist	Flynn J Taggart	3/5/12 1:56 p.m.
T-Squared is the image MLG wants.	bryan newman	3/5/12 2:15 p.m.