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Posting here because I feel like these forums get the occasional lurker who might be looking for a taste of light cycle nostalgia. Something to know is that it is 2023 and Armagetron is still played every day. We have pickup 6v6 Fortress and Sumo quite often, and Yellow Sub has its traffic as well. ...

I am interested in the idea of accurately scoring players with tangible evidence. Nanu has an SBT server that harvests statistics about players' behavior in a sumo round. He shared some analysis of the data and it was pretty compelling. I think he may or not be in the process of creating a version o...

Hello gamers. As of the last few weeks I have been running my new fort match-making algorithm for pickup, as well as created a discord bot for it to run automatically. The reception has been quite good and the gameplay yielded from it has, in my opinion, been better than ever from a match-making sta...

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Vogue wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:04 pmReal talk, what's the pickup fort discord? I'm feeling the christmassy tron vibes.

we've missed you! here's the link: https://discord.com/invite/M49egbF7

A few weeks ago we saw you doing this in pickup and a few of us were discussing it on VC. We attributed a lot of the success of it to the fact that apple and wolf were sweeping (which supports your main point about having good sweepers) and a lackluster attack effort from the opposing team. It seeme...

TST opening moves are funny to me, because a lot the quality of your start comes at the mercy of the other teams. When a team does an unconventional start (something other than the 3 you drew up), most of the time it doesn't necessarily serve to create more space for their pos 1, but to just throw s...

The original concept I made for the matchmaking algorithm used made buckets based on a bell curve, ideally this would be better and suits our given skill distribution. However, if I remember correctly, raph went with the system we have now because the buckets are less skewed by an influx of new auth...

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Does anyone have time to build a ranking tool as I described? I'm a decent programmer but I don't have a lot of time these days. I could host it, or maybe Kira would be interested in hosting it at Lightron.org? I just wrote a script that does exactly what you said, asks user for input on a random p...

I think it may be prudent to look at performance during specific events at first. I say this because it's often difficult to determine whether someone is playing seriously or not - when someone is playing just for fun, or whilst under the influence, their performance is invariably changed from the ...

I've had pretty similar ideas for a while now. I even wrote an algorithm that splits a 12-person queue into two (mostly) balanced fort teams. Deso, raph, and I have been in talks lately about implementing this into the pickup bot on the discord. I think it'd be a popular addition in that it would sa...

Yeah, kind of sad to look at your own members forced to watch the match from spec, simply because you want to play with a player who isnt even on your roster. This. I work every Sunday until 4PM EST, so I usually can't make it home until the very end of every ladle, but at least this gives me enoug...

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Thanks for doing this sine!

-sexiest tronner