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There were two places in the code where we gave ratings a boost for CT/TIE... i didn't realize that when there were some changes in the input/output code (which i didn't write/don't maintain) that these modifiers were placed in a different place, and thus when i went to remove them I removed them in the wrong place.... and when people complained i went back and checked the code and saw that as i had remembered i had removed the modifiers.

Upon increased chatter from users I decided that I should go back and take a second look more closely, and discovered the mistake. A combination of bad communication within the team and sloppy coding (not erasing the unused portion of the code) caused this error.

Now with regards to the CT/TIE not affecting ratings, I have checked this a number of times closely, and I'm pretty confident that that isn't true.. CT/TIE does reduce team spirit and that does affect certain ratings... not all ratings. Some things it doesn't matter how burnt out you are, or how revved up for a game you are, other things it does. Perhaps this explains your confusion about it not affecting ratings.

actually I know that enthusiasm effects rating... that`s just logical...
any way thanks and we`ll see how this is working in few weeks... Hope there will be just difference in sub-levels, not again difference by 1-3 levels like it was...

I see... i mean i think that's how its designed.... at some point CTing is not gonna reduce team spirit anymore.. you've bottomed out. I don't see it as a problem that teams can do this with no penalty, because they are being penalized.. they have low team spirit and if they didn't CT every game they'd have a higher team spirit and higher ratings because of it.... they aren't playing at their optimal level, so yes you can do that if you want to but its a bad strategy. at least we should design it so that its a bad strategy. That isn't to say that someone doing it should lose to every other team no matter what... but simply that a particular team would have done better to have done something else.