Awesome!

So does this limit our joining to 10 games or do the points increase above 100?

I am just throwing this out there, but it would be convenient if the game creating parameters (advanced setting) allowed the creator to exclude people from joining if they had under X reliability. Might be a pain to create, but just floating the idea. Would also be interesting if there was a reliability chart or hall of fame, as with the points one.

From now on the database checks every phase you played, and every phase you missed. The RR is calculated this way:
100 minus phases missed / phases played * 200, not to be lower than 0
If a user misses 5% of their phases, rating would be 90, 15% would be 70

If you left a game the missed phases will add up till someone takes over your country.

If a user has a RR below 100 he has some restrictions. He can only join/create 1 game for each 10 RR.
New players can only create/join 3 games and the more phases they play the more games they can join.

This might cause some trouble first till the database has some valuable data collected, but I hope it will improve the game-experience for everybody once everything is working.

Where can I check my reliability rating?

Never mind, I see it.

@LoveDove, if you have a RR of 100 you can join/create as many games as you like. There is just a small limit to prevent newbies to create/join many games. (And this will hit mow everyone till the data is more accurate)

I like the "creating parameter" idea of LoveDove.
When I create a game, I'd set it on "exclude no-one" for big maps, on "exclude players<85" for medium size maps and on "exclude players<95" for small maps.

PS: Live games and 2-player games do not affect RR at all.

Great idea, thanks Oli

Oli, maybe the formula should consider only the phases missed/played in, say, last 6 months?
If I miss a phase for some connex issue, my RR will be below 100 forever...
So maybe we should give a player who once has had some connex/familiar/job/RL issue to recover his RR, if for a long time he doesn't misses phases anymore...

The complete formula is always up for discussion.
It's just a start, and we will see how it progress...

At the moment it just adds a counter to the database for every missed and played phase, so it can't check how long ago it added that counter. But as a typical game has 40 or more phases (1 turn has up to 3 phases) I wouldn't see a problem in missing 1 turn in 200-300 phases. (and a limit of 9 games isn't that bad too)...

I can't create a game:( My RR is 100, but I'm in too many games it says. I have no CDs. :(

All players are considered new right now which implies likely to CD and only allowed 3 games. I have the issue currently that a game from which I am eliminated is my third.

good thing i created all my games before this started...

Once the bugs are gone (Oli and others will work on it) I think this will be great idea. Seeing as I never have missed a turn this is great for me and will improve the CD problem immensely. Move it to regular webDip!

I don't see how it fixes the CD problem. Someone can just create another account and start over. Some of the CDs seem to be from multis anyway, no?

10 games is still a lot, newbies should start off with maybe 3-4 games...

Well, at least new players cannot join more than 3 games, which means the effect of their CDs would decrease.

When I look at my RR it says 0 of 1 phases. But when I look at other players it says 0 of 0 phases. What does this mean?

"0 of 0" just say they didn't play a phase.
It just start to count the phases from now on. So it will take a few days/weeks till the data is valid ...

I've removed the newbie-check.
I'll add this back after the weekend. Everybody should have some more phases played than...

Great add on. Thanks Oli.

Thanks Oli, that will be useful

Right now I am at 0 of 0 missed but some of my games have definitely progressed. Is it only moves entered since the change?

Great add-on, btw, thanks!

Yea. Noticed this too.
Need to check why it's not updating (there are some games that update, and some update not)...

I've been at 0-2 since Friday and have had many phases because I am in 12 hour games. Why such a lag?

I did a code change, and by accident it only counted the left-players, but didn't adjust the rating of the others.
It's fixed now. I disabled the "newbie-check" for now, so creating/joining new games shouldn't be a problem...
I'll turn the newbie-check on later this week.

Works now...
The played phases add up.

Don`t like this.
I went CD in many games ONE time because I was away but my sitter forgot to play for me and now I can`t join a game I`d like to join :((

Oh, OK my mistake, forget my message -.-

If everyone doesn't pause when you need to go away for a few days your rating will crash.

The rating looks a bit harsh for everybody at the moment, because the total-phases-count is low for everybody.
The plan is that a new player need to be more careful with his games, that a long-time player.

Erm, how does this system stop the deliberate no-finalize-for-10-days people?

I like it, at a glance you can see how many phases people have missed over time. I don't think it is intended to prevent the ''deliberate no-finalize-for-10-days people'', maybe some other system for these people perhaps?

It does not stop the "Holding back the Finalize for 10 days" because this is full within the rules. If you join 10-day-phase games, there is nothing wrong with taking 10 days for a turn. But it stops the people abandoning their games if it does not play out as they like.