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At this point, I believe that Valhalla has been completely updated with all completed games to date. If I am missing any valid games, please let me know!
I also welcome any questions you may have regarding the data, how it is compiled, or what any of it means.
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We would also welcome suggestions to alter titles, achievements, and report names.
Perhaps we can put suggestions up to a High Council vote!
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It's all amazing and I really like the honorifics. Am I missing something that shows what they all mean? Most I can intuit (the ones that are based on categories from the Kingdom Leaders file, for example), others I figured out (Knight means a podium placement with that kingdom when no other honorific for that game was earned?) , but some still elude me.
Council Member for a given Kingdom means? (Something to do with status points?)
Top 5 peer recommendations gets the honorific? How many does it take to get a gold/silver/bronze?
My only other thought was that production is not normalized. That is, that if you are a Southern empire and the game ends in summer, then your end-of-game production is listed as the summer values. This seems odd to me. It makes sense when comparing kingdoms within the same game, but once we are comparing cross-game, the virtue of tracking it that way eludes me. Maybe it would be too much of a pain to alter the data ?
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(08-27-2014, 05:18 PM)Cloud Wrote: It's all amazing and I really like the honorifics. Am I missing something that shows what they all mean? Most I can intuit (the ones that are based on categories from the Kingdom Leaders file, for example), others I figured out (Knight means a podium placement with that kingdom when no other honorific for that game was earned?) , but some still elude me.
Council Member for a given Kingdom means? (Something to do with status points?)
Top 5 peer recommendations gets the honorific? How many does it take to get a gold/silver/bronze?
My only other thought was that production is not normalized. That is, that if you are a Southern empire and the game ends in summer, then your end-of-game production is listed as the summer values. This seems odd to me. It makes sense when comparing kingdoms within the same game, but once we are comparing cross-game, the virtue of tracking it that way eludes me. Maybe it would be too much of a pain to alter the data ?
For Peer recommendations, Jumpingfist will have to answer.
You may be right about the productions. I guess the answer is to end the game on just the right turn. The details come in a report from Support that I don't have any influence on. My report doesn't discuss seasons and I really hadn't realized that it wasn't normalized.
A Knight is either 2nd or 3rd place behind the Champion which is decided by podium finishes. A Councilor is 2nd or 3rd place behind the High Councilor based on status points.
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(This post was last modified: 08-28-2014, 12:14 AM by Jumpingfist.)
(08-27-2014, 05:27 PM)Lord Diamond Wrote: (08-27-2014, 05:18 PM)Cloud Wrote: It's all amazing and I really like the honorifics. Am I missing something that shows what they all mean? Most I can intuit (the ones that are based on categories from the Kingdom Leaders file, for example), others I figured out (Knight means a podium placement with that kingdom when no other honorific for that game was earned?) , but some still elude me.
Council Member for a given Kingdom means? (Something to do with status points?)
Top 5 peer recommendations gets the honorific? How many does it take to get a gold/silver/bronze?
My only other thought was that production is not normalized. That is, that if you are a Southern empire and the game ends in summer, then your end-of-game production is listed as the summer values. This seems odd to me. It makes sense when comparing kingdoms within the same game, but once we are comparing cross-game, the virtue of tracking it that way eludes me. Maybe it would be too much of a pain to alter the data ?
For Peer recommendations, Jumpingfist will have to answer.
You may be right about the productions. I guess the answer is to end the game on just the right turn. The details come in a report from Support that I don't have any influence on. My report doesn't discuss seasons and I really hadn't realized that it wasn't normalized.
A Knight is either 2nd or 3rd place behind the Champion which is decided by podium finishes. A Councilor is 2nd or 3rd place behind the High Councilor based on status points.
For Peer recommendation I was given a few guide lines and then filled in what else was needed.
Guide lines
-only those that finish the game can get or nominate others - here I do allow those that quite after effectively being eliminated both nominate and receive if they apply. I feel they did play the game to its end. Those that drop viable position can not contribute and as these are rewards I also do not allow them to be recognized either
-one player can only get a maximum of two points in any one category per game.
Non guideline stuff
-Other than listed above I count every vote. I do not discard votes that give an explanation that does not match what the category says. This happens for chancellor.
-the total recommendations required for a medal will change. As there are only 5 spots so I will look at the spread sheet and figure a number break down that seems to product the correct medal levels. Currently all three categories are at bronze 2 votes, silver 3-4 votes and gold 5+. I will keep them at this level until I find a category has 5 golds then that category will have an adjustment made to keep them meaning full.
Hope this all make since. Originally I thought I was only gathering nominations. Seem to be more now.
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Thanks, Jumpingfist. Good explanation! I appreciate you running this.
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Three new games have been added and one correction has been made. All the main files have been updated. Enjoy.
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Game 144 has been added and fixed. Game 22 will be next.
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If your game ends, feel free to create a game thread. That will alert us so that we can create a new file. If you name it, like 'New Player Primeval', we can name it in Valhalla as well.
Lord Diamond
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