Proposal for guidelines for reporting incomplete games

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This approach would indeed avoid skewing the DB results for the "main" scenario, but unless I am missing your point the players reporting the game for reduced points would still see those points added to the ladder? (I am not sure what "historical ladder points" refers too? Sorry if I am being a bit dim) 

Just throwing ideas out there, I could award bonus points for scenarios less than 25% completed? In that way we would not require additional DB entries (yes I just LOVE adding those!) the results would not skew the DB and players would still receive some points for their efforts? 

Darran,

I cannot pass up this once in a lifetime opportunity. Yes, you are being dim! (I can now cross off that debt I owed you.)

What I am suggesting is that for each title we add a single dummy campaign entry to the database. Anyone who completes more than 10% of the turns but less than 25% of the turns for any campaign associated with that title would record their results against the dummy scenario. As this scenario would have a lower SM value, the player still get points on the ladder to reward them for the time they invested, but not as many points as normal. And anyone completing at least 25% would report the game as normal using the normal database entry and get normal points. And you would have nice clean stats associated with the scenario and rubbish attached to the dummy.

The historical ladder points I was referring to are the career points players have accumulated. If we changed the SM values for existing scenarios it would presumably have a retrospective effect on these points. If not, then that is something else that should be looked at as the SM values are not ideal.

Applying bonus points is just too much work. We want a simple solution that takes care of itself once it is up an running.

Make sense?

John