Pillbox Captures

Feb 24, 2003 07:48 Pillbox Captures
It seems that teams are not held in account when winbolo.net reports pillbox captures. For instance, flad and SJ are on a team versus Sticks and stimpy. For some reason "SJ just stole pillbox from flad." will appear in the game log even though they are both allied but not playing as a winbolo.net team. Is there anyway to prevent this kind of reporting from happening? It might confuse people who are trying to watch the game from the log.
Feb 24, 2003 09:52
For teams stats to be updated the following conditions need to be met: (From The help page: http://www.winbolo.net/help.php#4.3

Why didn't my team get ranked?
As Winbolo.net is an automated ranking system and does not rely on any human game reporting certain conditions must be met for the game to be considered a valid team game. The criteria for a game to be ranked is:

* One team must have captured and own all bases.
* No non-participants can have captured any bases or pillboxes.
* All team members on both sides must be allied at the end of the game.
* At least one base or pillbox must be captured by two members of both teams.

As the other participants weren't WBN players then conditions 1,2,3,4 are not met. I didn't consider the fact people may want to update their team base/pill/tank scores without being in a team game like players would. This is a possibility.

John.
Feb 24, 2003 22:25 Possibility for teams
I wonder if it might be better to simply create a new team anytime two or more registered people ally in a game. Then if they ever ally again the new info gets added to their pairing. For example, here's a sample of what I was thinking about:

Team: Wins:
Elvis/Sticks 3
Elvis/Sticks/flad 2
Elvis/Min 2
stimpy/Sticks 0

Although I don't need to tell you that there could be a whole heck of a lot of combinations, especially as registration grows.