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[yed]

How to get at the top of Pro leaderboard?

Just beat two SerfBots 9 times:
http://gokosalvager.com/logsearch?p1name=tuto90&p1score=any&p2name=&startdate=08%2F05%2F2012&enddate=11%2F03%2F2015&supply=&nonsupply=&rating=professional&pcount=any&colony=any&bot=any&shelters=any&guest=any&minturns=&maxturns=&quit=any&resign=any&limit=1000&submitted=true&offset=0

[Tables]

The sad thing is, there's a pretty good chance this wasn't even someone trying to exploit their way to the top of the leaderboard. It was probably just some guy who wanted to play Serf Bot a bit and ended up on top of the leaderboard as a result.

[sc0UT]

You should post this in their forums so that hopefully MF realize how broken their pro-rating system is.

[JW]

The sad thing is, there's a pretty good chance this wasn't even someone trying to exploit their way to the top of the leaderboard. It was probably just some guy who wanted to play Serf Bot a bit and ended up on top of the leaderboard as a result.

He probably didn't want to play Serf Bot. As of the transition to 2.0 last month, Making Fun's automatch wouldn't pair you with bots better than Serf Bot until you have beaten Serf Bot a number of times. Apparently you need to go to the "Challenge Players" and specifically challenge a better bot, like Lord Bottington, to get a non-trivial bot opponent. There's no list of bots and their ratings to help you out, though.

[Beyond Awesome]

wtf

[Kirian]

How to get at the top of Pro leaderboard?

Just beat two SerfBots 9 times:
http://gokosalvager.com/logsearch?p1name=tuto90&p1score=any&p2name=&startdate=08%2F05%2F2012&enddate=11%2F03%2F2015&supply=&nonsupply=&rating=professional&pcount=any&colony=any&bot=any&shelters=any&guest=any&minturns=&maxturns=&quit=any&resign=any&limit=1000&submitted=true&offset=0

It's vaguely tempting to intentionally replicate this with a smurf account.  Maybe two data points will help them?  Maybe not.

[Beyond Awesome]

Do it.

You should call the other account I Heart Goko

[SCSN]

Maybe two data points will help them?  Maybe not.

If empirical evidence of something sucking actually motivated them to fix it, we'd be having something truly marvelous by now.

[Kirian]

Do it.

You should call the other account I Heart Goko

How about "Leaderboard's Broken"?

[werothegreat]

Do it.

You should call the other account I Heart Goko

How about "Leaderboard's Broken"?

"MorituriTeSalutant"

[Beyond Awesome]

So, if I spam play serf bot that will make me a better player than Stef. I wonder what happens to my rating after winning 100 serf bot games in a row. Perhaps, my rating will be over 9000.

[SCSN]

So, if I spam play serf bot that will make me a better player than Stef.

Stef has been a long-term advocate of bot games not counting for the leaderboard. I finally understand why: he doesn't want others to replicate his success.

[Kirian]

Twist ending: Serf Bot is an acronym for Rob Stef.  Stef has been pretending to be Serf Bot for years!  No idea who Rob is here tbough.

[pubby]

The new version changed Serf Bot II's name to Serf Bot Ii.

[Burning Skull]

The new version changed Serf Bot II's name to Serf Bot Ii.

finally some REAL improvements!