T-Man

A good thing, confirming what many of us suspected all along.

I was ranked 1 in Skirmish and 10 overall, and I don't think I'm that good. 

Exactly how things are now doesnt matter so much as a week or two form now once it starts to settle down, although it is kinda wrong if inactive players outrank active players.  EXP should be set to 100 until at least one game in any current "season" (for want of a better word for it) is played.

We unfortunately cannot easily "ignore" the people with a base 1000 experience.  The problem is that those people still have their Win/Loss/Games Played records, so there's no easy way for us to tell if those numbers are before or after the experience reset. And we cannot simply ignore players with 1000 experience altogether because some people may go higher/lower than 1000, then win/lose a game to bring them back to 1000 and all of a sudden find that they aren't being counted.

I can't say we have a solution for this yet, but if we'll keep you all informed.

Bara

I second this request... this and please point me toward a consolidated, end-all-be-all discription of how experience is awarded, how it is shared among teammates, is exp debited for concessions, what if i fight and lose with 2 ai on my side against 3 pro's...

...discovery learning is fine and has it's place but it has been a frustrating 6 weeks trying to figure out hoe the ladder and exp is constructed/distributed/debited...

There may already be a source, similar to what I have described here... my community rx skills still need some time and effort... if so does anyone know the link?

thx... and gg

ok, i understand you can't ignore them based having 1000xp (even on probabilities that noone would have exactly 1000) it's a nasty hack.

but you certainly can tell how many games a person has played since any given date.

also i thought the idea of epochs was to solve issue like this. i.e. a major balance change happens and we start a new epoch.

we should be able to access each epoch also maybe selecting several epochs (say 1,5,12, 14)get an wider view of who is top. i suggest being able to chose epochs as we might well agree that some don't count for some reason or other (stats repoting/balance/etc)

In regards to Pacov.

The Panth and the way it is structured is why i tell people not to pay any attention to a win/loss %. I play alot of panth as well as custom, but my stats look better than what they really are due to the amount of panth stomps in my list.

Worse thing is, the panth AI stomp is exploitable. Folks can certainly better their chances to play against AI by simply watching opengames.asp and see how many players are in the Panth queue for light or dark and hit fight accordingly.

Panth AI games should be excluded, no doubt, but we need a solution irregardless.

I mentioned this in another thread but will outline it again here.

Allow the panth to switch you from light to dark or vis versa. Lets you log in and click fight as dark, and there are 5 dark and 1 light player in the queue.

Let the panth wait it's set time for other players to join and if they don't instead of starting up a 3 v 1 with 2 AI, as would happen, give a choice to two dark players to switch to light and choose another character, thus allowing a 3 v 3 human game to be played.

The panth as it is now, if you watch, is a popularity contest. Many folk wait a little while at the start of a new tourny to see which side is winning then fight under that side. With the panth switching folks as needed it would balance out all games, eliminate AI and the side that won would do so with skill, not because they happen to be the flavor of the epoch.

they dont wanna reset win / loss i imagine because they are implementing an option where u can see someones win % in the lobby, and reset means unreliable figures.

+1 to gaining 0 exp vs ai pantheon opponents, pretty lame way of climbing the ladder.

Just check my game list from yesterday... i took your advice and completely revised my gaming style, no more dropped human v human games at the start up screen and i have kicked butt to the tune of more than 200 exp points in the Top Player catagory in a 24-hour period... you have taught me to trust my skills in Panth... even if i still get my butt kicked in Custom, Nielo has offered to add me to his premade on occassion so that should change shortly too... anyhow, thx... (but currently i choose to fight in Panth where premades have less of a chance to unbalance the game...)

it is indeed fixed... thx, no one has had more stress over all this than me, now i can concentrate on pure gaming... the best kind!

...on a completely differrent note, my long-expected but not-much-embraced PCS move is taking place beginning today and for the next two weeks... it will be very limited hotel connectivity for me... "very-unhappy-face"...

... so while I will still roam the forums (running a netbook alongside your desktop is sooo cool), my serious 5+ game gaming per day opportunities will be non-existant... military leave only lasts for so long but a month off has been fun... even more fun now that you, pavoc and stacked have helped me integrate into this community... i may not have started off how i would have liked, but if yesterday is any indication (on my games list and the fact that i am still the top ranked player if not in Pantheon, at least in the world)... then it will be a fun ride over the next few months... thx