An observation on the ladder... and a test.

from Demigod Forums

I found it strange that the only players I seem to see have either a ranking of #20,000+ or less than about #3000.  I wondered where all the people with a ranking of say... #10,000ish were..  Vaguely, I had the idea that this must be all those people that bought the game, but never played online.  After a few minutes of research, this is what I found:

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/rankings/ladder/page/180

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/rankings/ladder/page/925

Ranks #3851 to #18500 are all people who are, presumably, playing the AI in comp stomp matches.  Now I have nothing against these folks, or comp stomping (I probably played 200+ comp stomps in the Starcraft age!), but do these people really need to be included in the ladder ranking?  I feel this really throws off the whole ladder concept, and shouldn't be hard to fix.  No wins? No losses?  Doesn't show up.
Oh yeah... Then there's the test.  I uploaded an avatar, so let's see if it's working!
-- Tukulis

demigod
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

And since the avatar doesn't appear in post #1, here's the real test!

-- Tukulis

edit: It works!  <-- The Hero of Canton!

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

the pantheon database records everyone who has created a game account.

since the stat reset, there is now a massive section of players who left the game before the reset, hence with 0-0 stats, occupying the middle region of the database.

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