Posted by bigham23 on 2/10/2016 4:06:00 PM (view original):
note that admin did not dispel the idea of maximizing games played. as was mentioned earlier, it was a politician's "non answer answer."
if the answer to Tec's question was, "no. you should be maximizing AB's and IP's, along with total games played." then it would have been simpler.
also, in the Dev Chat the question was A) ABs/IPs, B) games played, or C) combo of both.
admin clearly and simply answered: "games played."
so admin had two chances to tell us that ABs/IPs matter in development, and both times did not tell us that ABs/IPs matter.
Looks like you've only been here since 2011, during a period where the availability of Admin providing any kind of information has been fairly non-existent.
But in the period of time between 2006 (when HBD was first introduced) and around 2011 (when they seemingly dropped off the face of the earth), the answers that they gave back then to questions was typical of what we experienced in the Dev Chat on Friday and in response to my ticket today, including the inconsistencies between the two.
So don't read anything into their original answer of "games played" as being "the true answer". They rarely give a straight forward answer to a straight forward question, I assume for fear of exposing the logic coded into the game engine.