matchmaking

Tonight's totally random thought: Would some games want to use some rating 
system other than ELO?

This spins off the "Volity-based MMORPG" idea. You have a score-like 
attribute in a MMORPG, your experience, but it doesn't behave like an ELO 
score. And why does Volity care about XP, you ask? Because players will 
want to use a matchmaking system -- they want to adventure with people of 
a similar experience level.

Why should the MMO developer have to write his own? It would be cool if 
his game could tie into (what will be) our sophisticated and easy-to-use 
rank-tracking and matchmaking system.

That is all.

--Z

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