Do we dare to try to fix QScore?

[Thrallia]

You need a minimum of 23 games. to become an elite QM at the moment.
Having two games improves your score so you would try to get at least 46 games. Players will stil be trying to improve there scores so some will have more than 46 games. Other players are still trying to become a quatromaster so they will take some game positions as well.
So lets assume that per elite quatro master a 100 gamesslots are needed
(at the moment there are 56 quatromasters and the total number of games on the hall of fame tables is 4939(including duel and hyanacapac) which is 88 games per quatromaster.
The total number of slots in the hall of fame is at the moment
9 difficultylevels * 5 mapsizes (excluding duel)* 9 victory conditions*4 speeds* 10 spots per table =16200 games
More than two thirds of the spots are still empty!
So reducing this to 8100 just 5 games per table would still allow 81 elite quartromasters reducing it to the top three would still give about 54 elite quatromasters about the same nuber as we have normal quatromasters at the moment. There would only be room for about 9 elite deity quatromasters with 5 games per table and 6 with just 3 games per table.

Problems with this system would be the gauntlet just making the top 3 or top 5 of a gauntlet count would make it very hard to reach elite quatromaster status. So for the gauntlets it would probably be better to make the top 10/20 count for the elite quatromaster.
The other problematic point would be the rock of Ages feature. It will be very difficult to compete with the ancient starts on most victory conditions.
But i do not like this feature to start with.
It would be best (IMHO) to let the advanced start games count as normal games and not have the rock of ages requirement.
(This would decreases the number of games required and would thus make it easier to get EQM status as well.)

I think the EQM should be more of a comparisson of players versus other players than player versus AI.
And most of all: It should not be easy to get EQM status.

Admin: Should this discussion be continued in the New! Elite Quattromasters Challenge thread?

its 39 for all expansions, and of the 81 or 54 EQM possible would be likely get be able to make sure they stayed top 3 or 5 in all 39 of their games and not get bumped off by someone else. I'd be willing to bet that only a handful would be able to get all 39 of their games to stick, thus changing elite QM to one or two top QM.

 

[CliftonBazaar]

Make another category (Super-elite quattromaster) that only accepts games in the top 10 - no Inca, no duel maps. But any start allowable because it is HARDER for a later start to be in the top 10.