metaverse recalc immunity

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The following people haven't submitted a game for more than a month and their score should be recalculated:
Ranking 8: Magnumaniac. Last game on 7/10/04. Score at this date: 1409K. If recalculated today: 1309K
Ranking 10: Jaxom CA. Last game on 4/13/04. Score at this date : 1172K. If recalculated today: 691K
Ranking 14: Major Dallas. Last game on 6/17/04. Score at this date: 930K. If recalculated today 921K
Ranking 21: Amulek, Bird of light. Last game on 5/3/04. score at this date 858K. If recalculated today: 526K
Ranking 30: Slothrop master of V2. Last game on 4/18/04. score at this date: 723K. If recalculated today 521K
Ranking 32: Dream warrior. Lastgame on 7/2/04. score at this date 632K. If recalculated today 567K
Ranking 35: Slayer MC. Last game on 4/27/04. Score at this date 616K. If recalculated today 491K
Ranking 40: Vision of tomorrow. Last game on 7/28/04. Score at this date 521K. If recalulated today 645K.
Ranking 43: Bam-Bam. Last game on 4/3/04. Score at this date 417K. if recalculated today 235K
Ranking 44: sirian. Last game on 1/15/04. Score at this date 412K. If recalulated today 209K
ranking 46: The 3rd Child. Last game on 5/9/04. Score at this data: 393K. If recalculated today 354K

Thats is all for the current top 50.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
This is my biggest problem with the metaverse as it stands.. it that If you don't submit a game then your score doesn't get recalced..

To get around this I suggest that stardock puts in place a daily forced recalc on those who havn't submitted a game that day.. EVERYDAY .. so that EVERYONES scores get treated the same wether they are submitting games or NOT

this will help promote submition of games at least 1 in any 30 day period ... it will also let people see whats going on with their scores.. eg: I hate it when i submit a 60k game and my score actually drops by 110,000 .. that is very dishartening.. even though I know that I actually lost about 160,000 and that my newly submitted game actually scored me about 50,000 or what ever.. and people will be able to see this better if the scores get recalced every day.. so that they can check their score prior to submitting their latest and greatest score and again afterwards..

It would also mean that people can see that the inactive players are getting Penalized the same as they are for vacent scoreing blocks and natural aging...

As I've stated before THIS and ONLY this NEEDS to be implimented to Change the METAVERSE scoring to make things FAIR and CLEAR

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Peace: how did you calculate their new scores.. do you have a spread sheet set up or what.. I'd be very interested in seeing how your doing it.. ie: getting the data and calculatng it

you can email me [email protected] to talk about this more.. I'd appreciate it..

Thanks
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Peace: how did you calculate their new scores.. do you have a spread sheet set up
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I have an Excel Spreadsheet but it is in French: all formulas are in French.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
thats ok.. I'd be interested to have a look at it.. if you'd like to share it ;)
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
thats ok.. I'd be interested to have a look at it.. if you'd like to share it
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Ok, spreadsheet sent.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Peace is that right, my score would go UP 120K? Or a typo?
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A typo. It should have been 465K
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Stardock, please do a recalc on the people listed at the top of this thread. They seem to have an immunity to the aging process.

If aging is to happen at least lets make it fair for all involved.
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Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
It appears to me that Stardock is using date of first game submitted to trigger recalc. The ones that I checked on as listed above all had first games of 10/03 or later, while those who drop seem to be the ones with July or Aug '03 games.
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
So it seems that recalc will occurs only during one month for a complete year for each user. Seems strange.

Maybe they have only found this way to avoid to much computation on all inactive users each time a recalc is done.
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
So it seems that recalc will occurs only during one month for a complete year for each user. Seems strange.
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Or maybe once the threshold date is reached, they are recalced in each recalc session, but not before.
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
Hopefully stardock will read this thread and react to the request.