The idea of merging the clones with the original games is that a maximum of 100 points is then available to each player for each game. There are no longer 1100 points available for playing all the pacman clones. If I treat the clones and original games as separate then there would be 200 points per player available - 100 for the clones and 100 for the original game.(posted 9674 days ago)I'm not finally decided to stick with the current scoring mechanism - consider it still experimental, but I don't see how treating the clones as separate makes the scoring any fairer. The current system of lumping the clones in with the original game makes each game count as much as any other game, don't you think?
There will always be a few games which are adversely affected by whatever scoring system I use, but I don't think it's very practical to treat different games differently. I can't (spare the time to) make case-by-case exceptions for situations where the clone is easier than the original game. I guess in that case I would say 'play the clone then'. Is that not OK with you?