Valhalla - Kingdoms of Alamaze

[Lord Diamond]

I was king once, although I didn't know it. It's good for the resume anyway. You'll get it again. My own ambition is a little more modest; I'll settle for Grand Admiral of the Gnomes!

[Frost Lord]

I have an idea...  

I say that us "little" people rise up like they did in the French Revolution and Storm the Bastille....let's take down all of the Aristocrats and end this Monarchy for good..... 

[Cloud]

This is the Kingdom Leaders doc.

[Cloud]

Looks right to me!  All credit to LD for making Valhalla awesome and keeping it current.

[Lord Diamond]

I am mostly just the pretty face of Valhalla. The real work is done by the Production Troll, Frost Lord. He's just not pretty enough for polite company. He has a great personality though..

[Ry Vor]

I've been studying the new kingdom rankings.  Lord Diamond, when we have say, last ten games, do status points shown reflect only games the kingdom is in?  For example, if the Giant (and other kingdoms) haven't been included in various games, are they still averaged in as if they were?  I think I'd be a bit surprised if they are that low if they are getting points for 10 of 10 games.

The other thing I am not happy about for Alamaze writ large is that the Underworld now is now #1 from the beginning, to last year, to recent results.  Since they weren't there a while back, it means they are dominating now to move up earlier standings.  And we had a recent thread arguing how the Underworld has to get 20% of its own special advantage that can move from 100k extra kingdom to extra 400k income?  Is that really the case to be made?  We need to worry for the Underworld?

Other side of the coin, the BL are distressingly in last place in all time zones.  We will see if Phoenix brigades help, but I really am not getting this placing unless we just keep directing new players to the Black Dragons.

[VballMichael]

In my sample size of 2 (played Ranger twice), I had black dragon hides all over my walls. Kind of like previous troll domination over elf. Playing the BL now in a game, think it is viable, but have been denigrating RA early and often to dissuade invasion. We shall see how that works.

[Frost Lord]

I've been studying the new kingdom rankings.  Lord Diamond, when we have say, last ten games, do status points shown reflect only games the kingdom is in?  For example, if the Giant (and other kingdoms) haven't been included in various games, are they still averaged in as if they were?  I think I'd be a bit surprised if they are that low if they are getting points for 10 of 10 games.

The other thing I am not happy about for Alamaze writ large is that the Underworld now is now #1 from the beginning, to last year, to recent results.  Since they weren't there a while back, it means they are dominating now to move up earlier standings.  And we had a recent thread arguing how the Underworld has to get 20% of its own special advantage that can move from 100k extra kingdom to extra 400k income?  Is that really the case to be made?  We need to worry for the Underworld?

Other side of the coin, the BL are distressingly in last place in all time zones.  We will see if Phoenix brigades help, but I really am not getting this placing unless we just keep directing new players to the Black Dragons.

Ry Vor

That is the Average status points earned per active game per Kingdom.

To calculate the Kingdom report on the "Avg. Last 10 Games", the system lists out the last 10 games completed (by end date) that were either an Individual or Team game.
Currently:  Games 143, 144, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 154, 156 and 157

Of those 10 games, the system ignores inactive kingdoms (and/or where the status points for a game was equal to 0).  It then takes all games where the particular kingdom was Active and averages the status points for that kingdom for those games.  Note:  If a kingdom was Inactive for all of the last 10 games, it would not show up in that column.

Here are some examples:

# Kingdom Game  St Pts   Active
1  DW        154     13068  ACTIVE
2  DW        151     6227    ACTIVE
3  DW        156     5457    ACTIVE
4  DW        143     4734    ACTIVE
5  DW        157     3522    ACTIVE
6  DW        146     1445    ACTIVE
7  DW        149     1175    ACTIVE
8  DW        147       279    ACTIVE
9  DW        144          0    INACTIVE
10 DW       150          0    INACTIVE

Sum of 8 Active DW games 35907 
Divide by 8 to get an Average of 4488 
    

# Kingdom Game  St Pts  Active
1  SO         146     9645   ACTIVE
2  SO         144     4751   ACTIVE
3  SO         143     4100   ACTIVE
4  SO         157     2900   ACTIVE
5  SO         156     2648   ACTIVE
6  SO         150     1725   ACTIVE
7  SO         149          0   INACTIVE
8  SO         147          0   INACTIVE
9  SO         154          0   INACTIVE
10 SO         151         0   INACTIVE
    
Sum of 6 Active SO games 25769 
Divide by 6 to get an Average of 4295 
    

# Kingdom Game  St Pts   Active
1  GI         156     16179   ACTIVE
2  GI         146       4127   ACTIVE
3  GI         151       3675   ACTIVE
4  GI         154       3174   ACTIVE
5  GI         143       2274   ACTIVE
6  GI         150       1769   ACTIVE
7  GI         144       1463   ACTIVE
8  GI         149       1425   ACTIVE
9  GI         147       1135   ACTIVE
10 GI         157        860   ACTIVE
    
Sum of 10 Active GI games 36081 
Divide by 10 to get an Average of 3608 



"Avg. Last 12 Months" does the same thing on all games completed in the last 12 months, and "Avg. All Games" does it for all completed games since Game 100 back in 2013.

I hope that this helps and please let me know if you want to discuss any of the other reports.

Thanks,
Frost Lord

[Ry Vor]

Brilliant, thanks very much for the clarity and all your contributions to Valhalla, Frost Lord!

[Jumpingfist]

I've been studying the new kingdom rankings.  Lord Diamond, when we have say, last ten games, do status points shown reflect only games the kingdom is in?  For example, if the Giant (and other kingdoms) haven't been included in various games, are they still averaged in as if they were?  I think I'd be a bit surprised if they are that low if they are getting points for 10 of 10 games.

The other thing I am not happy about for Alamaze writ large is that the Underworld now is now #1 from the beginning, to last year, to recent results.  Since they weren't there a while back, it means they are dominating now to move up earlier standings.  And we had a recent thread arguing how the Underworld has to get 20% of its own special advantage that can move from 100k extra kingdom to extra 400k income?  Is that really the case to be made?  We need to worry for the Underworld?

Other side of the coin, the BL are distressingly in last place in all time zones.  We will see if Phoenix brigades help, but I really am not getting this placing unless we just keep directing new players to the Black Dragons.

The assumption is that the status point are an accurate gauge of overall strength or power at the end of the game.   The UN is perfectly geared to gain status point.  He is good at making agents faster than others.  Thrives at capturing prisoners has the best guards to keep them.  Can steal artifacts where others would not even try.  What the UN does not do well is take regions which are undervalued.  The BL is the opposite.  The BL wizards cap out at 200 points.  They are a military kingdom with a high leader death rate so hard to keep the high point ones.  Have a hard time getting artifacts.  
But I find both a fun kingdom but think removing the UN gold fund will make them less fun.