Wuzzel wrote:
Would be neat if you could see eachother ranks in the alliance page.
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Not a bad idea, though most players aren't in alliances atm, so I'm putting most of the alliance stuff (that isn't completely borked) further down the list than the stuff that effects globally (Alliance or non-alliance, such as History pages and marketplace filtering).
Here's a question, though. At the moment all the points you generate in each category (population, tech, attack, magic, quests, trade etc) feed into a common pool, and are applied pre-defined weightings to make the "Overall Score" (ie Attack, Defence, Population etc are weighted higher than eg trade or quest scores).
I'm dissatisfied with this, currently. I think the overall score should be some kind of aggregate of all the other scores, but applied a weighting index on the *relative* total player base score for each category.
So, for example, if trade is something that isn't practiced by the majority of the player base, it should weigh less heavily relative to a score category that
is practiced by the majority (eg Population or Technology, which every player - regardless of which game path they take - has rankings in).
This isn't a comment on the relative importance of trade or quests vs attack or defence or whatever - people who do lots of trade or quests will still rank very highly within their own category.
I just think the overall ranking should be an alpha of the relative weighting of *all* the categories, weighted by the individual's score (relative to the total score) in each category. ie what "we" as Illyriad/GMS/devs etc think is important and should contribute to the overall score may *not* be what the playerbase thinks is important. And the overall score should be weighted by what the playerbase does, in some formulaic way.
<-- GM ThunderClap, sirrah, help me out mathematically with what I'm trying to say here. I know you can! Thoughts?