So, although the RC calculator does create annoyances in regular play (and i still think the ban should be reduced to a shorter time period), it is well thought out and serves a valid purpose in the end.

Pat...ironically your post 2 post ago was contradictory....

no, because excluding them serves the same purpose as including them, and if the RC goes by score then these games would only throw it off

I think that all this banning of high rated players has made it a lot harder for anyone to advance. It seems like now we get a lot more 500 tables full of > 10k players, and subsequently a lot more 100 tables full of >2500 players, and even the 0 tables are full or players who don't completely suck. As a result, it's a lot harder to advance and get away from bad players than I remember it being before.

Firefox has a point about players having to play lower tables because they can't get a game started.

Ryan I know you may not really want to share the complete algo for fear of some of the more industrious players looking for ways around it. With that said though if you could at least give a general overview of your thinking in the process, so far you have given some but much is still pretty vague.

The community loves the game and many of the changes that have occured in kdice over time has been because of user generated comments and request and at least some of in the community love the idea of the RC and want it to work but at the same time there have been unintended consequences and people that don't PGA together have been hit for a series of good games which you yourself have said are part of the game.

Time may cure all the ills the RC is causing now, but maybe there are solutions that can get us healthy sooner, I dunno.

Ryan,

Why not call it SDice? or probably better yet CDice? Everyone is equal! Long live mediocrity!