I remember a while ago there was a lot of 1 ratings being thrown around this site. It was never very specific but I think the mods implied there was one particular member trying to lower the average rating so their squads got into the top picks. Having lucked into having a top squad way back when I first got on this site, I can understand how cool it felt to see my 66 Strafers squad over on the left-hand margin, and I'm a grown man with a job and a life. If I was a kid it'd probably have been much cooler. Still, that lowball rating stuff is sleazier than selling $2 wine in a $10 bottle.

Anyhoo... I've been working a lot of extra days a week and tired all the time for months now. As a cheap, untaxing pastime I've been making a lot of squads and posting them, hoping for feedback so that when I finally get more time to play I'm not as terrible as I have been during the occasional games I've had vs my friends. I've been noticing that an awful lot of these squads get only one rating, and that rating is a 5. It really peaked a few weeks ago, though that might have just been me spending more time making squads.

I won't be all that surprised if my squads are actually just not very good, but I have to wonder if there's more going on than that. I don't want to be negative, I just wanted to see if other people are having the same kind of experience.

Oh no. It's five times better than a one.

well, no saying that you've wrong them or anything but...how else could people take out their revenge on (you) without actually BMing you with a hate note and getting banned?

sry if I (accidentaily)) insulted yhou; I serious have no clue who you're reffering to...im just not that much interlinked and caught up with the community here...anywyas...

also, never sad it was ncecary to do either but unfortuneatly that's the (sad) truth about these squad forum-ratings...people use them to ananomously insult someone, all he while still injuring the person all the same (this time via squad ratings)

What about people that genuinely think that a squad deserves a one? I am not ashamed to admit I have given one's to squads that I felt would not fare well in a game, but not because of some vendetta against a person. But our pride won't accept that as being possible, it must be someone out to get me! I get fed up with the 1 drama. Is your life so empty that you get angry over one person(whom you may not even know) giving your Star Wars miniatures squad a 1? Heck, I would be glad to get a one, becuase at least that means someone looked at my squad, rather then it just becoming one of the hundreds of unrated squads. And for the people who drop the 1 bombs becuase of some kind of grudge, do you have nothing better to do with your lives? What an insignificant way of getting back at someone, it's not even worth your time.

Anyways, sorry for the rant, thought it needed to be said

Good grief hard to take posts seriously when they look like that lol...spellcheck my friend....wow.

Anywho its a good idea to not start poking specific people about squad ratings, poking sleeping giants (no matter who it is) isn't a good idea. You may not have meant to poke but given the historyon this site of ratings wars and constant complaining just try to avoid talking about people getting back at each other, even if it is just a question.



Anywho it is back to my original point that squad ratings are still irrelevant, my top squad in 150 was hit with three 1s the second it made it up there and it is is still up there.

If it is a good squad it will usually get rated well. I wouldn't judge squad ratings on a squad unless there is a minimum of 5. If there are 5 ratings and one of them is a 1 and the others are an average of an 8 then the rating will be a 7.4, so not so bad.

Squad ratings are worth maybe 1% of a good comment.leave a constructive cxomment, means much more than a number.

The short answer is that the rating system on here isn't really accurate. This also makes the top "five" squads on here nothing near the top five squads in the game. I'm not trying to troll this thread, AT ALL, so let me explain myself:

People vote on things with a variety of different rationales. If you don't know a person's rationale, you can't possibly expect the rankings to have meaning, and they don't. Here are some ways that I can imagine people voting:

1) I'm a young player and I like this squad because it has characters that I think look cool or are cool. So I gave it a ten.

2) I'm an inexperienced player and I don't understand how this squad works, so I give it a 3.

3) I'm an experienced player who only plays casual games and I don't see a need to play competitive squads, so this competitive squad gets ranked lower.

4) I'm an experienced player that only plays competitive and only ranks competitively, so I only rank competitive squads higher.

5) I appreciate a good gimmick or an interesting combo, so I rated this a ten, even though it isn't competitive.

6) I'm an experienced player and I respect the abilities of X individual, so I consciously or unconsciously rate their squads higher because they have a good (and deserved) reputation for excellence in squad building.

I could go on. I'm not saying that those rationales are bad or wrong. I'm saying that they EXIST regardless of whether they are true or not for you personally. In all of those above cases, the rankings for a squad may not be accurate in terms of their ability to win games. Two squads that are ranked high and played by the same player may result in one squad tanking and the other doing well, or both squads tanking. Why? Because the players play style doesn't match that squad's best modality of play, and they make more mistakes.

My point is, I recommend that you not pay ANY attention to the rankings. They are not a value judgment of you as a player or individual. They are biased and inaccurate for a whole host of reasons that go way beyond the perceived complaint of the OP. That situation isn't "wrong" or "bad". It is a natural consequence of people being able to rate something when they have different experience, different personal tastes, and different attitudes.

Do you want feedback on how you are constructing squads and playing? You need to talk to other players. You need to play games. You need to get on the squad forum and say: What are the strengths and weaknesses of this squad? And you need to play the squad multiple times.

Good example Don. :)

Or on every comment how "Bane can beat this. 1".

Honestly, I think the squad rating has improved in the area of comments at least. And that's the important aspect.

Again, forced comments changes nothing, really. Trust me, this is one thing I learned from www.decktech.net.