Hmmm talked about it last year allready and i hope  the thing i came up with is nice for everyone

Lets have a TP based ranking system
A ranking list we have whole year.

When a fam wins a round they get tp's for it and individual you can get tp's too
and when someone does dishonorble things they get minus tp's.

or name it a honor points based ranking list orso

maybe at the end of a year the first 3 people get awards like in money or in a year long vip orso

(didnt look into the details but something based on that)

we whould have some more competitions too.

We used to have something similar, once upon a time, i recall.

How would that work in practice, Orbit?  Ie, like a daily benchmark or something?  So snapshot once a day?

@FD, seems interesting.  But.... it's qualitative I imagine?  I mean,  how do you decide who gets what points?

Oh ok, so everyone in the fam gets e.g 6 points, for a Fam victory?

That part seems clear.

Then what about 'best attacker' and 'most dishonourable player'.  Those things are usually just populartity type votes.  Hard to measure.

I do kinda like the points for fam members though.  I imagine we could have some kind of account type stats, eg:

Total Points - Points for winning/second/third, Points for Finishing a Round
Total Rounds Completed -
Average Points for each Round - (a measure of how much you win or something?)
Total times Killed Off -

etc

New messure!

If you attack fams lower than you, you lose score etc
^^

Maybe something that measures individual activity, then tallied up how active your fam is in regards to other fams?

some small resource attackers are on a lot helping out the fam where timezones dont even affect them due to staying up majority of the day, that should be measured. although like score it shouldnt be affected when someone deletes, unless they were very active and had issues, which would bring them down anyway.

[EDIT] and even some bankers need credit for their activity, one of the misconceptions is that bankers dont need to be as active but on the contrary if you're more active and aiding in it obviously helps a heap more.

In the end you can see which fams deserve their rank due to activity and would hopefully promote people coming on.

would be hard to determine activity when the [online] tag sticks for 2 hours or so, but yeah im sure you devs and mods can use a tool to check somehow.

anyway just an idea.

it would be neat to have a score system based on planets net gain from other families but this would be a dirrect indication of war to everyone.

perhaps a score based dirrectly on production, i though about one based on traded resources but that would be cheated and meaningless

Did you just suggest two ideas ...and then negate them -_-

-_-  I only implement stuff

Sure, agreed.  My view was to take players' opinion on a formula and implement that or a variation.  The formula for Score is known (it's in FAQ) already.  But yes, 1 month, no comment, now it resides in the Devs' hands.

Muhahaha

IT was an out the blue moment for Stefan, he thought it was a good thing do & just implemented it without considered, consultation. I only know this cos i was on the mod team when he did!

That's debateable.  Playing Devil's Advocate here, but the player must have deleted for a reason.  His points accrued could/should potentially go with him.  Do I agree with this? No, not necessarily - because I always believe in overall fam play, as opposed to individuals.

In any case, agreed, lets figure out a new formula.  Something a bit more representative and worthy of defining as a 'winner'.

@Wendy:  Thanks - that's what I thought.  I wasn't here when it was implemented, only came back as a player after it was brought in.

I am trying to remember what/how the scoring worked, you gain points for building, loggin in, attacking/exploring.
You lose score if players leave but that's about the only reason u lose points. Maybe you could implement losing points for attacking smaller fams or summat instead? Just an idea no clue how others would feel about it but at least it's so way to reward "fair/unfair/honourable/dishonourable" behaviours perhaps

Score is alright, just nothing you can stand behind for 100% atm to be the decisive factor/element.

Families who start with inactives and have to wait a couple days for active people to find their way, in that time they will have such a gap on score, due to other fams steadily growing with a full/near full fam and them having to boot players. So even if they were to catch up in nw and size, they can never win with score, even though most people will agree they have won the round if for example the number 1 fam since BOR has them tied on nw and size but beat on score.

Can you make score more like a system where, there's a set number of score points to be divided per "the"/several different stages in the round and let those accumulated points be the score to decide the winner at EOR.
If you let the set number of total score points to be divided grow as the round progresses and the more "the C in IC comes to play".

imo this would make score a lot more interesting and fairer as vs the old/current general score.