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scoring:system:centercount:incremental_control [2025/08/02 15:43] – created lei_saarlainenscoring:system:centercount:incremental_control [2025/08/02 15:46] (current) lei_saarlainen
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 **Incremental control** is a centre count scoring system. Its specificity lies in its incremental nature. **Incremental control** is a centre count scoring system. Its specificity lies in its incremental nature.
  
-Creation+===== Creation ===== 
   * Creator **Eliott Howell**   * Creator **Eliott Howell**
   * Year of Creation: **2025**   * Year of Creation: **2025**
  
-Power+===== Power ===== 
   * 1 point for each supply center held at the end of each and every game-year played ("control points").   * 1 point for each supply center held at the end of each and every game-year played ("control points").
   * 1 point for each supply center held at game-end, counted for each unplayed game-year through 1918 ("success points").   * 1 point for each supply center held at game-end, counted for each unplayed game-year through 1918 ("success points").
  
-Solo +===== Solo ===== 
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   * For players in games won by a single player (solo or concession):   * For players in games won by a single player (solo or concession):
   * For the winner: ½ point for each center not owned by the winner, counted for each year through 1918 ("victory points").   * For the winner: ½ point for each center not owned by the winner, counted for each year through 1918 ("victory points").
   * For each other player: ½ point for each center held at game-end, counted for each unplayed game-year through 1918 ("survival points").   * For each other player: ½ point for each center held at game-end, counted for each unplayed game-year through 1918 ("survival points").
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 +===== Miscellaneous =====
  
 With only a possible small reduction for supply centers left unowned in early years of a game, each tournament game will distribute 34×18=612 points to its players. With only a possible small reduction for supply centers left unowned in early years of a game, each tournament game will distribute 34×18=612 points to its players.
 NOTE: Games are certainly not expected to extend until game-year 1918. They will invariably end as normal, long before that game-year. The use of the year 1918 in the scoring system is simply to repeatedly add the players' final center-count to their score for all years after the game's natural end until the game-year 1918, so as to make all games worth the same number of points, and to properly award players for their result. NOTE: Games are certainly not expected to extend until game-year 1918. They will invariably end as normal, long before that game-year. The use of the year 1918 in the scoring system is simply to repeatedly add the players' final center-count to their score for all years after the game's natural end until the game-year 1918, so as to make all games worth the same number of points, and to properly award players for their result.
scoring/system/centercount/incremental_control.1754149425.txt.gz · Last modified: 2025/08/02 15:43 by lei_saarlainen