It's actually very simple:

Back in the old days, mr. Fingon used the Fibonacci sequence to give points to soldier+, and his "formula" we still use basicly everywhere because it works so well (you can still find it on live famstats, on war report at the deaths, etc).

However, in this case this couldn't be used. Because we wanted to make every rank count, and not just soldiers and higher (because ES dupes can also be used for shady reasons), and the Fibonacci sequence in that case would give one point to an ES while give 1597 points to a GF, and we found a factor of 1597 to be too high for the difference between lowest and highest rank.

So, we had to think of a new formula. We talked about ideas like dividing all numbers by 10 or grouping lowranks in group of two (so ES and DB would get same points, Pic and Shop as well, etc.), but in that first case the factor of 1597 would still exist and in the second case not all promotions would count anymore, not something we were glad with.

Because I've made up formulas for mathemetical problems and computer programs before (they are really handy in game engine development), I knew using a basic factor between 1.2 and 1.6 works very well in these ocassions (for instance, with basic factor of 1.5 you get 2, 3, 4.5, 6.8, 10 (rounded to one decimal)). Because raising to the power of is used (for instance, 1.5 ^ 3 would give the factor for rank 3), I knew that, because of it's basic nature of the number, √(2) would work very well as a good factor (is around 1.41, so was a perfectly good number within the range I was thinking of), and luckily it does (if you look at the number sequence, you can see the traditional powers of 2 between the decimal numbers like 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.). Using rank - 1 and multiplier 0.5 are just simple ways to shift the formula in such a way that it gives a nice sequence without too high numbers (staying under the three digits per rank).

So now we have a sequence which in its progression looks very much alike Fibonacci's sequence (for instance, GF is over twice as high as Brug, just like it was in the old sequence), which works from ES and up instead of Soldier and up, and which only has a factor of 181 between ES and GF, instead of 1597. The only downside is that we have decimals now, but we can live with that.

We've adjusted the algorithm used to calculate the points at the hall of shame. It uses the following formula now:

0.5 * (√(2) ^ (rank - 1))

We will also add some code to give more points for top 3 or capo's than normal members.

You're a racist for thinking he meant something racist.

!1

Liberta = Tremps, so that isn't that weird. Presi claiming it is a bit weird idd.

TANTRUM!

"It's the reason I pass out when I hear church bells."

Bulgaria had a nice version for a small family in 3.2, shot in a few wars.

Ehm, wtf are you talking about?

Also don't forget the actual time of being up.

There used to be a time when our visitors actually put in effort when they tried to flame other families...

Yeah fuck you Redspeert, I want a happy version, not a happy year :@

Poor Soad.

I'm not even in Quirites, I'm currently in Vincitori. And no, I never cheated and never will; duping is just too much organisation I'm too lazy for and scripting is necessary with lackeys.

Lmao.

Hahahaha. You're funny.

Inb4 hatred on FB.

Guys please stop it, not another discussion about Turkey or we will close this one down as well.

Get back on topic.

9 families up with just one lc, and still no suicides?

What has become of this game...

Atheist people also celebrate Christmas, it's nowadays less of a religious holiday than a cultural one which is celebrated all over Europe and North America with all different religions (besides atheists celebrating it I also know both moslims and jewish who do). Of course they don't go to the church or anything, and even the Christmas tree is getting out of fashion, but most people still get together and have one or more family dinners together.

Now back on topic please.

This.

Case closed, topic locked, godwin removed.


We don't judge on origin, just on the content of the comments. So yes, Turks are more than welcome here, as long if you post sensible posts. Furthermore, our general policy is that our admins are usually free to post whatever they want in the comments (unless the content of their post makes clear that it is from the site's point of view, as is this post), and that can also result in us removing posts of our collogues if we think they have posted something inappropriate. Our crew members are volunteers and they mostly are also still playing, so it is inevitable that they are sometimes biased and have their own opinion on the game (or other matters) they wish to comment.

Lastly, our crew is very busy and me personally didn't look at this topic anymore. If you wish to report comments of which you think they are inappropriate you can contact us on irc to get our attention to them and if we agree we will take action, as I did now. You can't expect us to read every post and read it within minutes after it has been placed.

Apparently the number has already been upped from 1 to 3.

The 1 object per family limit has now also been implemented on .nl, so probably just a matter of time before we see it on .com as well.