Scoring method of computer?

[<Demosthenes>]

So after an excellent game, I was taken aback by the results of the score. In a very close game between Creator and I, he was placed above me on the board, but at the timer, the computer gave the victory to me... Does anyone know why this happens or what the method is for determining this?


Here's another example of one just today...

[Ace Rimmer]

er, simple math?

345.8 - 134.3 = 211.5 top score
352.6 - 141.3 = 211.3 second score

[<Demosthenes>]

Then why was the victory banner indicating me as winner?

[admo1972]

I'm guessing that for the scorboard, the scores are considered tied (although you edged him out by a few tenths of a point), and there is a secondary sort going on, perhaps him having more survivors/fewer deaths than you.

Edit: Never mind. I only looked at the first pic. The second one obviously doesn't follow.

[xander]

How many, if any, nukes landed after the timer ran out, but before the simulation stopped and the winner was declared?

xander

[Ace Rimmer]

The second one actually makes sense...

Demosthenes: 392.2 - 121.4 = 270.8
(MOR): 391.4 - 121.9 = 269.5

[NeoThermic]

Either xander is correct, or in the case of a "tie" by the game (not counting .x points), that the game picks the first name alphabetically. I note in both games your name starts with <, which is sometimes classed as first in alphabetical order.

NeoThermic

[ynbniar]

Something similar happened to me a while back...

http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon ... highlight=

...if your interested.

[Torp]

The second one actually makes sense...

Demosthenes: 392.2 - 121.4 = 270.8
(MOR): 391.4 - 121.9 = 269.5

You forgot the collateral. Still, the numbers give Demosthenes the victory by 0.7 of a point (269 vs 268.3). Strange, because he only has 268 points on the scoreboard.

There was no collateral in the first game, so the scores on the scoreboard should mean that the other guy should have won.

Demosthenes has the highest number of kills in both scenearios. If the computer don't use fractions of a point, that's the probable culprit. That, or alphabetical order, but I really don't think that's the case.

I've heard something about the score calculation taking a little second or so. It is possible that either the scoreboard or the victory announcement is given before the scores has been finally calculated, if a nuke lands a fraction of a second before the end of the game. In that case, that might be the case.

[creator]

I reckon it just gives you the benefit of the doubt because you lose the rest of the time...hehe

[<Demosthenes>]

Believe that when I see it Creator... If I recall you have a rare habit of scraping by on the edge of your teeth...

[mugabe]

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