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greenjacket124 wrote: ↑21 March 2024, 14:22 There is an easy solution here: don't care about ELO.

There's a big emphasis on it after the game, you know what I mean,
it's basically in your face.

The ELO system doesn't care how close the game is. All it cares about it win, lose, draw, and the ELO ratings of the participants. That's how it works for chess and all other ELO games. Designing such an ELO system would mean you'd have to clearly define how "close" a game is for each dif...

I don't really understand why I lose games by 2 points or 3 points and lose 12 or 13 ELO- sure, there is a math behind it but it's highly frustrating . Why doesn't it matter how close the games was? When I play with real people in the real world and I lose a game by 2 or 3 points it still feels kin...

I don't really understand why I lose games by 2 points or 3 points and lose 12 or 13 ELO- sure, there is a math behind it but it's highly frustrating . Why doesn't it matter how close the games was? When I play with real people in the real world and I lose a game by 2 or 3 points it still feels kind...

So, I played an Animal card level 5 planning to put 2 animals in my zoo (enclosures were build before and were matching). I played down the first animal which triggered the game end, but I still had the second action, the second animal to place, according to the ability on the card. Isn't the game ...

So, I played an Animal card level 5 planning to put 2 animals in my zoo (enclosures were build before and were matching). I played down the first animal which triggered the game end, but I still had the second action, the second animal to place, according to the ability on the card. Isn't the game e...