I think the main problem was the speed with which some people were submitting new scores and the low percentage compared to some existing scores certainly gives the impression they were hunting for points rather than doing the best they can and then moving onto another game.(posted 9603 days ago)QT - yes this means you. Are you really going to try to say you were doing anything else other than point hunting. Are you really going to say the scores you posted are the best you could do. I think not given the "lame" nature of some of these scores.
Yes it's an elitist attitude but that's what MARP was always about in the early days. Trying to get one up on the previous persons score. Looking and learning from their INP's. Not just submitting as many scores as possible just to increase one's standing on the leaderboard.
It was watching over a master's virtual shoulder that I liked the most. That's what took my best score on Galaga from just over 200k to over 6 million. That's what I looked forward to seeing in MARP - another person who could truly play a game.
Yes we want new people to join us at MARP. Yes we want them to feel proud of their scores and if they only uploaded scores on a few games at a time then they probably would not be getting hassled about their lame scores. Some of my early scores are now lame compared to the highest on this game and I don't make a habit of uploading any new scores that are lame - except for the tournament where there was no choice but to upload your best regardless of how bad it seemed to you personally.
Suffice to say the leaderboard is not the be-all and end-all of MARP. Uploading truly great scores on a few games is what it was really about in the early days. A side effect of this was reasonable standing in the leader-board.
Time for me to get off my soap-box. I truly hope MARP doesn't close down as it's too good a site to lose all those virtual shoulders from.
BeeJay.