Average duration of game
Posted: 05 June 2014, 14:17
Sorry if I post here but it's more a discussion than a signalation of a bug (if I had to signal this as a bug I don't know how to solve it correctly).
From the big update about the turn-based mode, I suppose that the calculation of the average duration of a game included also this matches... but for the turn-based games it counts ALL the time from the beginning to the end, including also a lot of offline hours of days in which no one is playing.
This thing altered the stats of every game in the site (not so important, but a newbie can see, to make an example, that Targi has an average duration of 115 minutes... and it can be frightened by this, also if it's a false information), but more important to me it altered also the badges of the achievements for the # of games won or played. Who got the achievements in the past has a lot smaller amount of prestige points instead the players who gain the same identical achievement now.
So as for what I see there should be done one of these 2 things
1) To fix the calculation of the average duration of the game (but there will forever be players who gained a lot of points from this "bug" in these days, and this can't be solved if not by editing every single achievement badge... I suppose it will be a nightmare) or better
2) To change the system of the achievement prestige points. I never understood why a player should have taken more or less prestige points than other players only because the average duration of the game changed maybe of 1 minute, so probably the better thing is to reset in another way the prestige points of some achievements.
I.e. every day the site should recalculate the value of the prestige points of these achievements, exactly as it happens now for the visualization of the top 10/20 rank on a game (sometimes you are tenth, someone will gain a position and you'll see the new bagde top 20 instead of top10 maybe the next day). In these way to do another practical example if you get 50 wins at puerto rico you'll get the same amount of prestige points of EVERY other player who won at least 50 games, no matter when you get the 50th win.
Thanks for the patience if you red all this
From the big update about the turn-based mode, I suppose that the calculation of the average duration of a game included also this matches... but for the turn-based games it counts ALL the time from the beginning to the end, including also a lot of offline hours of days in which no one is playing.
This thing altered the stats of every game in the site (not so important, but a newbie can see, to make an example, that Targi has an average duration of 115 minutes... and it can be frightened by this, also if it's a false information), but more important to me it altered also the badges of the achievements for the # of games won or played. Who got the achievements in the past has a lot smaller amount of prestige points instead the players who gain the same identical achievement now.
So as for what I see there should be done one of these 2 things
1) To fix the calculation of the average duration of the game (but there will forever be players who gained a lot of points from this "bug" in these days, and this can't be solved if not by editing every single achievement badge... I suppose it will be a nightmare) or better
2) To change the system of the achievement prestige points. I never understood why a player should have taken more or less prestige points than other players only because the average duration of the game changed maybe of 1 minute, so probably the better thing is to reset in another way the prestige points of some achievements.
I.e. every day the site should recalculate the value of the prestige points of these achievements, exactly as it happens now for the visualization of the top 10/20 rank on a game (sometimes you are tenth, someone will gain a position and you'll see the new bagde top 20 instead of top10 maybe the next day). In these way to do another practical example if you get 50 wins at puerto rico you'll get the same amount of prestige points of EVERY other player who won at least 50 games, no matter when you get the 50th win.
Thanks for the patience if you red all this