Metaverse Scoring, question for T-Man

BUMP... this needs an answer.

I too would like this clarified. If scores that are older than six months evaporate, what's the point? :notsure:

Will be rather interesting to know what is happening.

If the problem is about space or size of the files, why not to leave every score that is over 6 months old as their value and don't degrade them more, only degrade those scores up to 6 months.

Hold on, scored older than six months are disappearing?!?!

KEmperor

I'm not sure at this stage thats why I've asked for clarification.

The only way I can match my score (to within a couple of hundred) to that of the metaverse is by dropping my scores from 7th July and earlier

Ah, I see. That's quite interesting, I'm curious as to what you find out then.

I only posted one score ever, it's more than 6 months old, hasn't disappeared yet.

~SDC~

Geoffrey

Thanks for that. If you were to submit another score I would be interested to know what happens.. Scores normally don't change until your next submission,

Geoffrey: the score itself never disappears from your record. It's value to your score, is what we're after. And that we don't know for sure untill you submit another.

ISTR that there is a minimum value (as a percentage of the old value) a score can reduce to by 'aging.'

I believe each month's scores are added and weighted averaged seperately, then the net score for the month takes a 5% loss per month of age, to a minimum of 10% of the original value, for computing the total Metaverse score (which is a simple sum of the adjusted monthly averages).

~SDC~

When does the minimum value come in?

At the moment it seems to stop including scores after the 7th 30 day block

The minimum value would come in for the 18th block of the Meta score and the 9th block of the player score. This, however, does not address the gist of this thread - what explains our scoring discrepancies (why are our scores too low, not too high)?

I submitted a 60K game last night and my score went up by 1K.. I also had 2 scores slip into the "dead zone".

Surely it's not that difficult for Stardock to publish the scoring calcs.

Indeed.

Indeed

{edit}Da#m Arclite beat me too it LOL LOL


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Indeed he did.

hehehe...

LOL LOL LOL LOL

But back on theme

T-Man can we have an answer to our scoring question please?

Indeed LOL LOL LOL

hOW oDD (:(

Well, I just submitted an Obscene Gigantic game where I retired -- having realized I was going to lose to the "Alien tech victory" -- and it netted me 9k points.

Before:
rank 219
score 60712

After:
rank 186
score 69444

The game itself was scored 3275.

So if you are tired with getting 1k, just try losing! LOL

~SDC~

Take a look at this link.

http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GF&id=120131

It seems to say that all your scores in a 30 day block are added and divided by the square root of the number of games. If you want to get your total score, you add the monthly subtotals together to get your total score. Oh, and you only get 95% of the subtotal for the previous month, 90% for the month before that and so on.

I think that makes a lot of sense. I played a recent game after not playing for 9+ months. When I just added all my scores together and divided by the square root of the number of games, I got a much lower number. But since this was my only game this month, the MetaVerse just added the score to my total.

I'm glad they are continually improving the game. But I am a little curious how my "simple" and "easy" games from earlier versions of the game that were once worth thousands of points are now worth 300 or 600. But I played a new game under the latest version on Cakewalk and got over 4000 points...

Guy
Thanks for the link, but the question is at what point does it stop being 5% and perhaps reduce by 10% or further.

I'm aware of the degradation per month but there seems to be a distinct downward calc after about 6 months.

All i'm after is the official calc.

Jaws,

Apparently T-man has said that the metaverse scoring system is not working properly since the metaverse update and their looking into it. This is "unofficial" by the way

Exar

Jaws - It seems a lot off folks can't understand what you're asking. Maybe you should clean all that scuba gear out of your teeth.



Smoke and mirrors! Deceit! They're trying to throw us off the scent!