Arcade scoreboard changes

[John Turner]

Dear me - grown men .......

[ap1]

Time spent in the Choggi shop was time seldom wasted

[Gwyn Nicholas]

Surely the challenge is to beat the persons genuine high score and not feel chuffed to bits because you beat x % of it.
I agree with the heavyweight champion defending his crown, but someone has to take it off him first. He should not lose his title without even stepping into the ring.
If the person who has the high score got it by fluke that is fine by me. Flukes are there for us all. If someone can not achieve a high score they need to try harder and not rely on the score being reduced. I can't beat the high score on Dragonfist. I don't want to have the score reduced to give me a chance. I will just keep trying until I improve.

Actually you couldn't be more wrong! If the champ refuses to to defend his belt in the ring , it is taken away from him!

[Chrish]

Actually you couldn't be more wrong! If the champ refuses to to defend his belt in the ring , it is taken away from him!

Only if there is a contender. He is the chap to step into the ring with the holder of the high score . His result is on the screen for you to see and attempt to beat.
The champ is not refusing to defend his title, he already has done. That is the score that the challenger must beat.




I would suggest letting the Oxford English dictionary have the last say.

All time = hitherto unsurpassed.

The version you are defending:
All time = x% knocked off by admin to give everyone a chance of getting the so called high score.

[Gwyn Nicholas]

Only if there is a contender. He is the chap to step into the ring with the holder of the high score . His result is on the screen for you to see and attempt to beat.
The champ is not refusing to defend his title, he already has done. That is the score that the challenger must beat.




I would suggest letting the Oxford English dictionary have the last say.

All time = hitherto unsurpassed.

The version you are defending:
All time = x% knocked off by admin to give everyone a chance of getting the so called high score.

Here is another word DEMOCRACY + The Majority rules.

[Bob Bacon]

The way I see it there are 4 options:

1. Never reset high scores. That means people get scores that can't be beaten and others just give up trying.

2. We prune high scores every so often. This means people who worked hard to get them just lose them without any record.

3. Prune just the top x scorers. Means other people have a chance of getting on top, but not fair on those who worked for the highest spots to just have them removed without record.

4. Compromise: Keep the scores but reduce them, thus keeping them there and the rankings (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc) stay intact.

The fourth option means:

a) they can be beaten by others, and
b) people have to keep going back to "top up" their own reduced high scores.

Both of which, I believe, will increase arcade activity.

[John Turner]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the olympics took on the same approach to world records.

You could do the 100m in 9.7 seconds and get beaten by someone doing it in 9.8.

[Chrish]

Here is another word DEMOCRACY + The Majority rules.

Thank you .

democracy / n.
1.goverment by all the people, direct or representative; a State having this.
2.a form of society ignoring hereditary class distinctions and tolerating minority views

[Keith Jones 989]

I note that 23 people have voted (as at 12.14UT 7 Feb 2008), with the highest number having registered their vote to have the high score reduced by 10% each month.

In a democratic forum that's the way ahead.

Arcade Games are, at the end of the day, only a means of entertaining oneself!

[dutchman]

there are better was of entertaining onceself ...oops gotta go eyesights failing