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submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Funny story time:

I had someone cheat against me the other day (without me realizing it, because I don't have the game sense to tell), then offer a draw in a clearly winning position. I guess they were trying to avoid detection, but I decided that I didn't want their handout, declined the draw offer, and resigned.

The system immediately flagged them as cheating and refunded my elo, so I guess all's well that ends well.

[–] lemick24@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Excellent Chad loss, my man

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is elo?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's the rating system for competitive gaming that was originally developed for chess, but has since been applied to all sorts of gaming, sports, etc. sometimes you might even hear people refer to a game's matchmaking rating as "elo", even it's not called that.

Also, fun fact: it's not an acronym, it's a guy's name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, thanks for the info! What does refunded my elo mean? Do you have to pay for a matchmaking?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, it's completely free to play. What I meant was that when a game is over, the winning player gains rating points and the losing player loses rating points, proportional to the rating difference between them.

Since I had lost that game, I lost rating (elo) points. But, since the system recognized that it was against a cheater, which isn't fair, it gave me the points back when they banned him so that my rating would be unaffected.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Ah, got it. Thanks for the explanation.