Op 17-11-19 om 18:19 schreef Thomas Beierlein:
But I fear there will be another combination of multipliers poping up soon which we do not have in our repertoire. So a better solution is needed - same goes for point scoring. I did some investigation how other contest programs solve these problem. One of the ideas there are to classify multipliers into some main categories: - Country/DXCC - Zone CQ or ITU - Prefix - section or similar
Some contests, like cwops and FOC ones, have the callsign as a multiplier, crazy if you ask me!
But tlf can handle this with UNIQUE_CALL_MULTI=ALL, no problem!
With that we could allow more to count more than one category as multi and would need additional rules how to combine the values (add if more than one or score only one) and how to count on different bands (BY-BAND or ONCE). Than your ITU_&_SECTION could be something like: COUNTRY_MULT = DXCC,BY_BAND ZONE_MULT = ITU,BY_BAND ADD I am not sure if that would catch all or at least most of the multi scoring problems for existing contests.
I agree, we need a more flexible way of scoring. Right now it is quite a study to setup a contest with all the different keywords that tlf uses in the rules file. I am willing to do as much testing as you like.
Feedback on that is very much welcome. 73, de Tom DL1JBE
Thanks Tom! 73 Joop PG4I