Merlin 🤖

Thanks for the tip! I found this thing on how halo supposedly ranks and I'm looking into how I can apply this to my situation. http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=14414600 Hmm... I also found an interesting Wikipedia page on a method of ranking chess players relative to each other... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

I don't know man. I guess I didn't see what was in his signature line before it got deleted so I guess I don't completely know what was said, all I know is when I came in it looked like you guys were beating him up for no reason.

Whatever you guys were using the f word on him and stuff. All I'm saying is you don't have to psycho on him. I forgot why I stopped coming to these forums. Oh yeah. All the shitty Moderators and Administrators who go beat up children because of comments that don't even matter really. You guys make me sick. I mean look at yourselves really. Take a minute and look at what you're saying. It's ok for me to beat up on children who can't even drive yet because of something they said. What's wrong with you? You guys are incredible. He just asked a question about how to code a cms and now the entire thread has turned into: You have no right to call yourself a hacker! And I'm just like lay off him a bit and you guys are like you let your children run around with guns. Of all the incomprehensible bull shit I've ever heard. You idiots are so egocentric that you have to pick on children and make yourself look amazing. You probably have no life outside these forums really. I don't see how you could make any friends with the attitudes you have. People probably run when they see you. This is the most negative forum I've seen in a long time. Now I know truly why more people don't come here. I'm switching to http://forums.devnetwork.net/ and i suggest the little dude who was getting picked on to leave to and go somewhere where people offer constructive comments instead of destructive negative comments.

Nice. Picking on a 14 year old because he called himself a hacker. Why don't we actually try to help him with his question instead of beating him up because he likes computers and wants to be a "hacker". Ok. Sorry buddy sometimes people are rough on these forums and you have to learn to ignore it. They wouldn't talk like that to you if you were face to face. People sometimes forget common courtesy in the inherently anonymous world of the internet. ======================================================================= So you want to make a CMS? Well the best thing you can do is plan it out really well before you write any code. Plan out how you want the interface to be and what features you want. I would say since you sound like you're just starting out, make it simple. Simple is easier and cleaner and you'll make progress faster. You might want to think about how you can add in templates, or if you're going to allow more than one user how you could do permissions maybe. Another thing is how can you code the navigation and how that will work if you're going to do templates. Also, is it going to be a blog type cms like wordpress or something else? I hope you already know how to code with php and do basic things like connecting to a database. If not you'll want to learn that. A good place to start for any web-related tutorials is w3schools.com, just look for the php section. Some of it's outdated, but it's really good for a beginner. If you want to get a basic apache mysql php server program on your computer for testing without having to buy hosting, you'll want to get something like xammp. Google it. I hope this helps a little. Don't let people push you around and if they seem like jerks, they probably either had a bad day or they are jerks. I think it's really cool that a 14 year old is already learning to program. Keep it up and you'll have a very nice career some day and you'll be way ahead of your peers in college.

So I have a risk website. I'm not going to link to it just yet because I want to make it awesome before I fully launch it. People can register and play games against each other and what not. That was pretty easy. Ok. Now I'm sort of stumped. I want to have a really advanced ranking system to rank how good players are in relation to each other. I can see in my mind how this would work sort of... I just can't figure out how to translate this into code. So the simplest form of this system would be: Player A beats Player B so the rankings are: A B Now say Player A beats Player B and Player C beats Player A so the rankings are: C A B It is inferred that C is better than B because A beat B and C beat A. Now I think I could make a system when it's that simple pretty easily, where it gets harder is what happens when I have things like: A beats B twice. C beats A once. B beats C once. What would I do in a situation like that? I want to factor in something like how should I say "intertia" maybe. So if a really highly ranked player loses once against a low ranked player it doesn't automatically mean the low ranked player is better than the higher ranked player. Or say two people have been playing games against each other and one beats the other 80% of the time. I want that to be reflected even though the one who won 20% of the time may have won the latest game or something. Do you see what I mean? Anyway, I know this is really random and I probably haven't explained it very clearly, but any ideas are welcome, I'll be checking this thread on and off today and the next day or two. P.S. something else I was thinking about is maybe since like 5 people can play a game at the same time although 4 of them will lose in the end, they won't lose at the same time, there will be an order to their loss, so i don't think you should punish the first and last ones to lose the same. Anyway, thanks a lot! I think figuring things out like this is fun which is why I got into programming, but I'm just not sure how to express this idea in code just yet.