I'm with pacov. Stats should mean something, and for that to be true the system needs to work flawlessly. The v1.2 patch will surely leave some (yet unknown) stats issues which should be adressed in hotfixes.

Anyways, imho it would be good to not reset the favor points any more because casual gamers who play less often would have quite a disadvantage for some time.

Myself and others have mentioned this before, but until custom games support the separation of organized team games and PUGs, the stats are still fairly meaningless.  I think even Frogboy realized this with his earlier suggestion on a tweak to the Connections window that would help identifying organized teams.  Randomized teams are another option, though that can lead to teams with duplicate demigods, which not everyone likes.

Frogboy mentioned himself that though there would be periodic stat reset, there would be NO more favor point reset (the reason for the first one was because FP was buggy and some people, like me, had won 2000 favor points per match for about 3 matches in a row) and had put us on a high plane than other people since we could get any favor item.

However, I don't think it'll happen again.

I know that Frogboy has said he wants to stat-reset, but also only if it WORKS. It clearly doesn't now... and it probably won't next time.

So, I think we shouldn't, but maybe is everything DOES work we an have a 1.2.1 stat reset.

Just tagging this so it shows up in my replies. 

What's the point in resetting the stats? They'd still be just as meaningless as they are now. Without fixing the system it's just going to have the same issues all over again. It reminds me of GPG 'fixing' supcom's 2v2 ladder, except all they did was reset it and not fix the underlying problems with it. (The problems were however, much different than the demigod ladder.)

I hate the idea of stats reset. Actually I mean favours reset, I don't care about the rest of stats. But I don't play a lot and I would hate to have to re-grind favour points to get favour items back.

I would think it goes without saying after the last stat reset that the community needs to be given time to find any exploits others may use to ruin the system.

So give us some time after patch to find some exploiters once again.

The more I think about this topic, the more I think that a stats reboot will be completely pointless.  All this will do is prevent those with experience from playing others with experience.  I think that instead there needs to be a complete overhaul of the system.

I think the majority of players have found that the ranking system (AKA the Elo system) does not do a good job in describing a player's skill.  There are two primary reasons for this.  The first is that it's a team game.  If the team as a whole does bad, even stellar play on an individual's part will not produce a win.  Second, people of similar rankings do not play each other consistantly.  Do some reading on this system and pay attention to the assumptions made to see why this system has failed us in DG.

To illustrate this point, my current rating is apx 2400.  This makes me slightly short of being a Grand Master.  However there are players with 3000+ rating, and at least one player over 7000.  These numbers are literally unheard of in this ranking system and shows that it's really not working.  Those at the rating 100 end of the spectrum are vast in number, and really don't have that bad of records.

One solution might be to implement some sort of cutoff.  For example, you must play someone +- 500 experience for that match to count.  So if I had an experience of 2000, I would not improve my ranking any by playing someone with an experience of 1000.  This, I think, would make matchmaking (especially in custom) difficult.

In the end, I base a player's skill on three things.  1: Their overall record.  2: Their record playing that specific DG.  3: The quality of player they beat.  The problem is, there's no simple way of displaying #3.  Perhaps an "Average experience of foe" tab.  So if a player reads: Overall 200-10, Erebus 65-5, XP of Foe 200, that player would probably be an ok player who can noobstomp.  If a player reads Overall 50-50, Erebus 20-20, XP of Foe 1500, that player would probably be better than the previous noobstomper.

This would prevent people with a practically undefeated record from feeling good about themselves if it's displayed that they only play far lower ranked players.

-- Tukulis

Ahh the wonderful stats.

As has been said many times, after the new patch is out we really need to let the stats be for a while, that way we can see if things like this are still taking place....

I have seen this before happen to other folks but first time i have witnessed it. I was never in that game.

It's things like that that need attention for a stat reset to actually be of any value.

I know a lot of people don't like the favour point reset, and I know a few people that said they will stop playing Demigod if they reset the favour points again. If people are so passionate about this, then I say get rid of favour points and let anyone get any favour item's they choose. Eventually everyone will get enough to get everything, so what is the point of favour points in the long run? If they do regular reset of the favour points, then it makes a bit of sense as people will have to re-earn them. If not, get rid of it all together.

Personally, I don't think a Stat Reset with 1.2 is warranted. As has already been mentioned, let's wait until the system works irrefuteably before we do it again otherwise we're rocking the boat for no real reason.