Where are the most powerful players?

Brandmeister wrote: In terms of raw lethality, I think defense score is a good proxy. You can get attack points in tournaments or by hunting, but that doesn't correlate well to martial power. Sieging a live target produces a lot of defensive casualties. You can scam trade, diplomacy, and magic. Tech isn't a useful indicator. Population is just size; there are many very lethal players below 100,000 population, and many chubby couch potatoes over 200,000.

You make a good argument.vCrow - 1

The most powerful player is the person with a finger hovering over the off-switch in the data centre.

You can get defense points in tournaments as well.  All of my defense points have been gained in tournaments.  Ratio of defense points to attack points often has as much to do with race and playing style as anything else.  I'll bet most of the top players in defense points are elves, whereas many of the top attackers are humans.

Rill wrote: You can get defense points in tournaments as well.  All of my defense points have been gained in tournaments.

You're only #475. When I look at the top 100 defenders, I see a collection of people who have sieged a great many towns.

I probably phrased my original point badly. You can get a high attack score by hacking apart NPCs, and by attacking tournament squares under favorable conditions. I acknowledge that you can accumulate some defense points in tournaments. However, as a point score, defense still correlates the BEST to power and lethality, even if it doesn't correlate particularly well due to tournament noise. It helps that all the other scores are rather irrelevant.

The best way to judge lethality is to examine the player's stats, history, cities, alliance and allies. You can tell many dangerous players just by looking, but that's subjective judgment, not a numerical ranking.

*is going back to his movie