DAAK

[Panther]

We have modified the rankings in the db. Mainly the German rankings were changed. Now German and English officer ranks are consistant.

I want to point out that there is another way to look at the rankings namely to sort it by points not ranks. This is the right way if you want to list the players by skill.
How? If you are facing the head of the ranking list simply click the link "points" on the right (its located directly below the link "CD-ROM / FtF Rangliste")
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[nemo97]

What was the reasoning behind having CD & FTF games ranked seperately?

Thanks,
nemo97

[Panther]

Sorry for answering only now, but I was out for the weekend:

Main reason for implementing the CD database was that we wanted to gve the CD players their own platform since the first db is dominated by PBEM games.
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[nemo97]

I can certainly understand having seperate databases for LL & ADS, but what does it really matter of the ADS database has CD games in it (assuming all using the same rules set)?

IMHO, as long as all ADS DB games are played using 2nd ed + bid then it shouldn't matter if it is a FTF, CD or ADS game. Even then, from personal experiences in my limited play time here, I have seen a variety of rules used in my games. I think if anything threatens the validity of the databases it is having a variety of rules used within that database, not the format to execute the games played.

Cheers,
John

[Panther]

So we disagree regarding the CD/FTF games.

As for the optional rules like 3rd ed or parts of it : They are used very very rarely, so would not make sense to have a seperate db for it
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