Question about medals

Most of them dont work correctly at present

Not sure if and when they will ever get fixed. Playing level appears to be one of the major broken medals at present, where for some strange reason it doesnt update to your most used level!!

Maybe one of hte Dockians would like to comment on this, however none have yet when this subject has been mentioned previously.



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It is frustrating!

I have won 20 games, always very good, with average difficulty of Crippling (even one Obscene). My score is 22,798 and rank is 612.

My other teammate has won 4 games, neutral or good, with difficulty of Challenging. His score is 28,552 and rank is 473.

 

LOL , I am not sure how the scoring works ...I remember after posting my 14th victory my score was actually 10000 points lower than it was the day before...I went from 279 to 430 something...anyhoo it looks like there may be a few things that need to be done with it, I like my medals though, my favorite part!

Elader, you are seeing a bug that has been around for at least a month. As far as I know, only the Altarian favourite race is given the wrong medal. Then again, I've only had two, and I might have missed complaints about other medals going wrong. If you want to see all the medals, there is a page somewhere in the Metaverse called 'legend', which has a picture of them. Most of them should be self-explanatory: games submitted, games won, alignment, favourite race (which should work if you play enough as anyone but the Altarians), etc. Your rank will go up with more games submitted, though I am not quite sure how fast. Since you are probably going to ask, the Racial Victory medal means you have played and won with all ten races. For access level, that is determined by how many posts you have made here, although if you join an Empire, its founder can make you a Senator. That was done for me, and everyone else in the B.C. Space Orcas, but I haven't noticed anything different.

As for scoring, your score is divided by 2 after your sixth submitted game, and divided by 3 after your sixteenth submitted game. Unfortunately, the Metaverse seems to be one area of the game that the designers are no longer willing to discuss, despite all the negative commentary by various people on this forum.

Finally, about the difficulty medal. This was explained to me by Syrrus K. The game calculates your average difficulty, with one point per level of difficulty. The problem is, it ignores the decimal places. To use myself as an example, I have 11 Challenging games, for 66 difficulty points, 4 Normal games, for 20 difficulty points, and one Tough game, for 7 difficulty points. My average difficulty comes to 5.8 (rounded). The game looks at the 5, and discards the decimals, which is why I get a Normal rating when I usually play on Challenging. Unfortunately, like the player position ranking, this is something Stardock no longer seem willing to mess with.

So how do you get the medals to show up in your posts? I've earned several of these medals, but so far they haven't shown up at the bottom of any of my posts. They do appear in my profile when I log onto the Metaverse, though.

Of course, now that I've said that, the medals will show up at the bottom of this post, and I'll look like an idiot.

to get your medals to show up on the forums go into your metaverse character look on the right hand side there is as shaded default box check that box and your posts should then show your medals

hehe, all of use look like idiots at one time or another, the trick is to not mind it

@Vodd
There are a few more items that its supposed to look at when calculating the score, not simply number of games and difficulty level; Population, approval rating, tech level and probably others also factor in to each game's score. IIRC, the MV calculates a 'sweet spot' for the game based on all of these factors so that the optimum score for a given map setup is at a certain timeframe during your game. Win too soon, score fewer points, drag the game on hoping to rack up a big score, score fewer points!

I have no knowledge of how the MV calculates and adjusts the scores for multiple games, but it could be more than just straightforwards averaging.

Unfortunately, like the player position ranking, this is something Stardock no longer seem willing to mess with.

Agreed! The MV looks like a 'this will shut them up' thing in GCII, which is unfortunate as it was one of the major draws in GCI and seriously helped the staying power of the game. To be honest i am not entirely sure why they bothered with it in the first place if they were not going to get it working correctly. Would have been much easier to not have it at all!

Thanks for the tip, ogremech. Let's see if this gets the medals.

Unfortunately, like the player position ranking, this is something Stardock no longer seem willing to mess with.

I love GCII, and I have a great deal of respect for Stardock and its programmers. There are two aspects of the combined GCII/Stardock user experience, though, that many people (including me) find frustrating: the Metaverse and the forums.

Both of these things remind me of the Intranet project I worked on at my last job. The company Intranet affected everyone in the company, and everyone used it on a daily basis. However, the Intranet generated no revenue, so it was always the very last thing on anybody's job queue. Eventually, it became last on one person's job queue (mine) and dropped off of everyone else's.

I did what I could for this program, when I could. It had initially been written in another person's downtime, and that person had been let go before the thing was passed on to me. As a result, I spent a lot of time re-inventing the wheel as I worked on the code, sometimes having to rewrite whole pages. As a result, everything I fixed caused subtle problems elsewhere, which I couldn't always get back to fixing right away.

In the end, what I got for my trouble was a load of griping and complaining and requests for features that I could have added - if I had a staff and a budget and a project schedule.

The way that Intranet project went, a sort of long-term Kobayashi Maru scenario, Office Space-style, is what comes to mind when I see the sorts of problems and loose ends we encounter daily on the Metaverse and in these forums.

Our problem, as users, may simply be that we are depending heavily on features that aren't part of the company revenue stream. Hopefully, one day we will start to see responses to our problem posts.

Our problem, as users, may simply be that we are depending heavily on features that aren't part of the company revenue stream. Hopefully, one day we will start to see responses to our problem posts.

They may feel that it isn't a revenue stream, but word of mouth advertising works the same for negative results as it does for positive results. I'm beginning to see how the MP folks feel...ignored. At least they did eventually get a response so we can hold out hope.

As one man once said: -

"You make a fantastic game but a lousy website! And whilst your backup for the game is second to none, your backup for the website is second to everything!"

DG

Onling gaming and multiplayer can earn you extra money. All people are competitive, even the ones who dont admit it. Everyone wants to brag about his/her achievements. And what better way to brag, than showing your achievements online to the rest of the world? And what better achievement there is other than beating some other person?

Moreover, online gaming is a very effective way to counter piracy. Its a fact that many people buy a legit copy of a game, simply because they want to play it online. They played the pirated version of the game, but then they wanted to play the game with or against their friends. So they go and buy the game and play the game online(this is the case with most rts, fps and even mmorpg).

The only legit games that many people have, is the games that they play online. Not to mention, that online gaming greatly increases the value and the time endurance of the product. I mean, how many times can you beat the stupid computer? Even if it is a smart computer, you cant really say "SUCK IT NOOB. YOU GOT PWNED" . It just doesnt give you nearly as much sattisfaction as a victory vs a real person.

What every medal do you know like top 25 or former 1, anyone knows?