Will be rather interesting to know what is happening.
If the problem is about space or size of the files, why not to leave every score that is over 6 months old as their value and don't degrade them more, only degrade those scores up to 6 months.
Thanks for that. If you were to submit another score I would be interested to know what happens.. Scores normally don't change until your next submission,
Geoffrey: the score itself never disappears from your record. It's value to your score, is what we're after. And that we don't know for sure untill you submit another.
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by Diplomat Arturus Magi - 2/4/2004 5:55:08 AM
ISTR that there is a minimum value (as a percentage of the old value) a score can reduce to by 'aging.'
I believe each month's scores are added and weighted averaged seperately, then the net score for the month takes a 5% loss per month of age, to a minimum of 10% of the original value, for computing the total Metaverse score (which is a simple sum of the adjusted monthly averages).
The minimum value would come in for the 18th block of the Meta score and the 9th block of the player score. This, however, does not address the gist of this thread - what explains our scoring discrepancies (why are our scores too low, not too high)?
Well, I just submitted an Obscene Gigantic game where I retired -- having realized I was going to lose to the "Alien tech victory" -- and it netted me 9k points.
Before:
rank 219
score 60712
After:
rank 186
score 69444
The game itself was scored 3275.
So if you are tired with getting 1k, just try losing!
It seems to say that all your scores in a 30 day block are added and divided by the square root of the number of games. If you want to get your total score, you add the monthly subtotals together to get your total score. Oh, and you only get 95% of the subtotal for the previous month, 90% for the month before that and so on.
I think that makes a lot of sense. I played a recent game after not playing for 9+ months. When I just added all my scores together and divided by the square root of the number of games, I got a much lower number. But since this was my only game this month, the MetaVerse just added the score to my total.
I'm glad they are continually improving the game. But I am a little curious how my "simple" and "easy" games from earlier versions of the game that were once worth thousands of points are now worth 300 or 600. But I played a new game under the latest version on Cakewalk and got over 4000 points...
Apparently T-man has said that the metaverse scoring system is not working properly since the metaverse update and their looking into it. This is "unofficial" by the way
