Quote Originally Posted by Paul View Post
Unfortunatly, we can never know on what value we should start initially as players mostly play some few rounds with their new name, then reserve it. The only possible (partly) fix I would see in here is to set the rate to 5 on all new names
well if we take for granted that most new nicks are not real new players, but an old player who changed nick, the highest chance to get a realistic one is giving an average rating, so why not let them start from the middle, who goes up who goes down, most will stay.

Because the 'average rate' thing is strongly based on the fact that rate is correct, and if that is the starting point for all calculations...

And maybe if a nick is new its rating should move faster for x days, I don't know if you have that already implemented, I am just guessing

Etpro players change name every other day, and that keeps their rating low