Rating R: -2147482112

[calleharnemark]

Wait... did you just put me in charge of infecting everyone? Or what? And I will stop being as tough on you. A little.

I dint it was just my way to point you could have gone easier on me.

[Autumnwolf17]

Well you could have been clearer... Okay, I will try to be nice.

[Pingu]

A bit late in reacting to this nice new 'feature', I haven't been playing for days and just discover it...

Now THIS is a rating system I like ! All have the same one, no change to expect on that side, so just enjoy playing (and winning ) your games, and stop developing 'R-boosting' strategies that spoil gameplay But apparently I am one of the very few thinking the R stuff did not help making the game better, so ...

More seriously, I'm not even sure a 'conspiracy' theory is needed here. Looking at the Glicko formulas, I can expect them to be VERY untolerant to negative numbers. Yet the Rating is increased or decreased by a small amount after each game. So... just assume that one single (not hacking) player once finished a match by getting more R reduction that he had in total at that moment (and assume Lopdo did not add code to handle that 'exception' ), and you get a first negative R that will spread by making square roots issuing errors (like 'Not a Number'), that get (badly) converted into I32 integers and there it is...

Still, playing VW remains fun anyway

[Autumnwolf17]

The lowest level on the forum the day before was a 542. And he had been testing how low you could go... There's a chance...

[Aygor]

He might be the plaguebearer. Give us the name, so that we can solve this problem dark ages style.

[calleharnemark]

The lowest level on the forum the day before was a 542. And he had been testing how low you could go... There's a chance...

Actually i aw Dinomite123 down inot 480

[TheRivieraKid]

Now THIS is a rating system I like ! All have the same one, no change to expect on that side, so just enjoy playing (and winning ) your games, and stop developing 'R-boosting' strategies that spoil gameplay But apparently I am one of the very few thinking the R stuff did not help making the game better, so ...

I wouldn't have agreed with this until now, but yeah, it's been good fun not having people 'playing for second' and basically not playing to win each game.

[Autumnwolf17]

I don't remember the name, he just said he was going to see what negative was like and force a quick loss in every game. He said he was going down really fast, wouldn't surprise me if he made it. It had guest in it, but was definitely a player. He was rank one, just a temporary profile.

[Lopdo]

I made a quickfix that will reset your rating if it is less than 0. So the spreading should stop. I will have to look into it in more detail when I find bit more time. I was away for 2 weeks and when I get back I have enough work prepared to last for a month, now that is a vacation :/

[Aygor]

Solved.
Still, it's a pity we didn't get to burn the plaguebearer