peanut_gallery wrote: Just curious. How are ties that bridge a reward brackets handled? If two players are tied with the same score and one shows 10th and the other shows 11th, do they both get the 10th place reward? If not, what is the deciding factor? The one who got to that score first?
mohio wrote: peanut_gallery wrote: Just curious. How are ties that bridge a reward brackets handled? If two players are tied with the same score and one shows 10th and the other shows 11th, do they both get the 10th place reward? If not, what is the deciding factor? The one who got to that score first? I thought I saw somewhere on the forums before that it's the person who had the score most recently, but I could very well be wrong, and didn't bother searching the forums for the answer first. I'm sure someone will let us know eventually. Either way I'm 99.9% sure they don't give top 10 (or whatever the higher tier is) to both players in these cases.
Spoit wrote: mohio wrote: peanut_gallery wrote: Just curious. How are ties that bridge a reward brackets handled? If two players are tied with the same score and one shows 10th and the other shows 11th, do they both get the 10th place reward? If not, what is the deciding factor? The one who got to that score first? I thought I saw somewhere on the forums before that it's the person who had the score most recently, but I could very well be wrong, and didn't bother searching the forums for the answer first. I'm sure someone will let us know eventually. Either way I'm 99.9% sure they don't give top 10 (or whatever the higher tier is) to both players in these cases. It used to be that way, but they fixed it so whoever got there first was higher. Not sure how that works with points from win/losses and race conditions
Phantron wrote: Spoit wrote: mohio wrote: peanut_gallery wrote: Just curious. How are ties that bridge a reward brackets handled? If two players are tied with the same score and one shows 10th and the other shows 11th, do they both get the 10th place reward? If not, what is the deciding factor? The one who got to that score first? I thought I saw somewhere on the forums before that it's the person who had the score most recently, but I could very well be wrong, and didn't bother searching the forums for the answer first. I'm sure someone will let us know eventually. Either way I'm 99.9% sure they don't give top 10 (or whatever the higher tier is) to both players in these cases. It used to be that way, but they fixed it so whoever got there first was higher. Not sure how that works with points from win/losses and race conditions Why would it matter? Someone has to have a score first. If I have 500 points and you have 498 and later you got a defensive win for 2, I still had 500 before you so that should give me the tiebreaker. I don't know how precise they store their time, but I'd think the chance of two people getting the same score on the same second must be astronomically low, and if that happens and they flip a coin to decide to wins, we can live with such a rare occurence.
mohio wrote: The way the servers have been acting lately "same time" could be minutes apart . Although even then SOMETHING gets processed first, it just might not be what actually happened first. edit: also thanks for clearing that up for me. I guess I didn't realize or notice it was changed.
Spoit wrote: What if I have 525, and was hit for 25 at the same time you won that 2 points from 498? Anyway, I'm not a network engineer, so I have no idea how it actually works, but I can't imagine they don't have any parallelism, but I'll concede that point