frogstar_A wrote: ↑22 September 2022, 10:54
Can't Stop, like most dice games, for sure has a large element of luck. But you massively overstate it. There are plenty of people with ELO over 300 or even 400 at this game. They are not just insanely lucky, they are good players.
Yes, 1000% is obviously an exaggeration, and I'm not saying that the ELO is solely based on pure luck — The focus here isn't that Can't Stop isn't a good candidate for being a rated game, but that you don't see anyone with a Master rate of 700+ even now no matter how good a player is or how many games they've played, and same goes for King of Tokyo and plenty of other games with that element.
arisanana wrote: ↑22 September 2022, 02:50
Sure, actual skill and reading the flow of the game (and for some, luck in itself) can be considered factors that should affect defined skill to improve rating. But sometimes, no matter how good you can guess with your luck, it doesn't turn out that way.
If you'll put the context back in, you'll see I do agree skill in the form of strategizing how you progress in such games with a heavier luck element are factors in rated games, and that no matter how good you can strategize, like aim for all 6,7,8 and chop chop get the game done, or go for a stable 2 2 2,12 12 12, and something else, what the dice rolls is still luck at the end of the day (unless you can cheat the system but then you wouldn't be here)