Hi all. I'm preparing to start some kind of ladder for Dominions 3 players to measure their skills in. I have some basic ideas of how I would like to do it but since I want to do this for the whole Dominion 3 community it rather should be done the way most people here want it. I do have some suggestions though... feel free to add any comments or suggestions if you have any interest in this.
The Ladder : My suggestion for the rating used in this ladder is the chess rating called ELO. You can find more info here
http://chess.about.com/library/weekly/aa03a25.htm. This is a great ratingsystem and with some small adjustments it would fit a Dom3 ladder perfectly.
After people has registered on the ladder they are free to challenge anyone regardless of their rating.
The game : 1v1 games. Well since Dominions 3 is so complex there aren't 2 nations that are balanced to eachother. So how do we get the most fair matches? Well my idea is that the moderator first randomize which era will be played and then for that era randomize the 2 nations that will be used. 2 games are started and each player play one nation in the first game and the other nation in the second game. If you win both games you won the challenge, if you win one each the challenge was a draw and finally if you lost both games you obviously lost the challenge.
The Settings : I think that the standard settings in most cases should be applied but with some changes. First change should be indies... how strong should they be? When I solo I almost always play on 7 but perhaps there is better reason to use something else. Second change, I'd like to make is to set research faster. This will be 1v1 games and the later research areas will probably seldom be acquired otherwise. Also I would like more settings to tone down bless rushing abit. While it should be a viable strategy it shouldn't automaticly be the best ones. I am open for any suggestions.
The Map : I want to use random maps. With the regular settings. What are your suggestions on this?
The Server : I will provide for a server where the matches are setup up on and anyone that has server capacity is welcome to help me out.
The Webpage : Well it's not really necessary but it would be nice having a page showing the matches and a list of everybodies rating. But as I have never webmastered anything someone else would have to handle this.
Now perhaps you have better ideas than me. You might just want tournaments or something else than a ladder instead, then please suggest so. Perhaps noone has any interest in this at all in which case I just try to forget it.
Dominions 3 1v1 Ladder
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