[RANKING][BUG] How are players ranked, why am I not #1, also artifact bug?

Why aren't I number 1?

from Demigod Forums

Hey Guys,

So some of you may find this conceited or cocky, but I was just wondering, the average length of my games is under 20 minutes as I finish off most competition pretty rapidly.  I normally have hundreds of thousands of points more than my next closest competition in most of my games as well (e.g. CptCanuck 257984, next closest 54598 etc) with a record of 72-0 yet I am still not the top player according to the Pantheon ranking.  Is this because I finish my games too quickly to get a high average experience level?  My average experience ends up being quite low because I win my games so quickly.  If players are ranked solely on their average experience gained, players who are much better than others will see their ranking hurt rather than improved by winning games faster and faster. 

Is there some way average game length could be taken into account as well during ranking, with current win/loss ratio affecting as well?

Also, i found a bug with the heart of life (increased health and mana regen rate upon activation), while active, if the character is healed by some outside source (healer minions) the effect of the artifact ends.... shouldn't this only occur when the character is damaged not healed?

Thanks,

CptCanuck

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

CptCanuck,

Looks to me like you are only getting favor for 50% of your games, and I think the baseline achievements you get favor for are used to calc exp. 

Also could be custom game exp factors in for Pantheon, and you have no custom game exp, but I'm not sure about that

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

Look at your favor point and the favor point of Flurus who is currently top.

The ranking is not based only on victory / defeat. Its also based on how well you play in-game. flag captured/ $ spent on citadel etc.

 

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Maybe you should try and play against a human I will bet anything you are far from #1

You maybe be Godlike vs AI but then again you might not

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

you may not have wanted to sound egotistical, but you def did

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

aww too bad i cant seem to join games without getting immense lag me and florus owned in beta 1 and if hes top then >.<

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting woca, reply 4
you may not have wanted to sound egotistical, but you def did

 

Egotistical? It's extraordinarily sad when people get riled up because someone has more confidence in who he is than they do.  

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

No I do not always play against AI, if human players are named anything other than Rousk, capital first letter, and usually a themed name, I'm pretty sure they have been human.  For example, I'm pretty sure I'm the only two losses Dakinykilla has, i think i remember playing against him a couple times.  

Also, if you consider money spent at citadel and flags captured etc if the games are shorter obviously you will accomplish less of all of those. 

Yeah, Flurus does have a lot of favour points, but look at game time spent, im at around 2000, he's up around 6000, but clearly you're ranked by average experience, you can see guys with less favour points ranked higher than others because they had higher ave xp.  How about some Dev feedback on this one?  The tournament ranking system in the pantheon is a definite integral part of this experience, what are your thoughts?

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

But there are bug in the stats page.

How can someone have a WIn with 0 favor point?

and I think in this situation it give almost 1000 exp...

Reply #9 from Demigod Forums Top

A number of things.

1) The games you are playing are likely against the AI.  The names for AI players are taken from real player names so you see the usual nonsense names in AI matches that you would see in normal internet play.  The way you can tell if you are playing a human or an AI is to look at the "Ping" on the scoreboard.  A Ping of 0 means AI, a ping of something else means human.

2) The website and game has a large number of bugs, which is why you are showing up with games won at 0 favor.  Generally speaking, if you win a game you end up with at least 95 favor, and if you are dominating then you will likely end up with closer to 200 favor.

3) The AI (which you are likely playing against mostly) is ranked at 1000 rating I think.  This means that if you never end up in a match against another human it takes a lot of wins to climb the ladder.  If you do end up in a match with a human though and you win and that human is ranked closely or higher than you then you will likely climb the ladder pretty quickly.

As for why you play against mostly AI, it's because there aren't a lot of players in the beta right now so for testing purposes they put AI in as placeholder for statistics and such.  My understanding is that at release you will always play against at least one player (though the teams may be filled out with AI).

On a personal note, I similarly did not climb the Pantheon ladder much at all until I finally got matched up with another player.  I actually lost the game but after that my Pantheon rating started skyrocketing up and I made it up to #8 (since dropped to #10).

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Kaiserkrause, reply 6

Quoting woca, reply 4you may not have wanted to sound egotistical, but you def did

 

Egotistical? It's extraordinarily sad when people get riled up because someone has more confidence in who he is than they do.  

 

to answer his question without stroking his e-selfesteem he could of asked how experience is calculated and/or how ranks are determined. this thread was not needed, many others on topic. but ok, search doesnt work, bringing in his own rank wasn't needed at all. how come i'm not number 1? i win super fast and own everyone and my losses are disconnects cause network. so why aren't the top ranked

 

this thread could be effective if it were this

 

title: how is experience/rank calculated?

body: see topic

Reply #11 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting strikersgun, reply 5
aww too bad i cant seem to join games without getting immense lag me and florus owned in beta 1 and if hes top then >.<

you owned?

Flurus an I dont remember that :p