Demigod Pantheon Statistics - Log/Info/Suggestions

I want suggestions!

Published on March 5, 2009 By GunslingerBara In Demigod

Hello everyone,

As Stardock's web developer, I was tasked with creating a statistics website for Demigod using the ungodly amount of data we (will) have available to us. That website is now located at http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com. A bunch of you already saw the "beta" version a few weeks back. While this site is still a beta, I am happy enough with it to remove the beta message that was at the top of the page in the previous version.

Today I pushed an update that added a bunch of new statistics, pages, and a slight redesign. Starting today I will be keeping a log of changes to the site in this post. I will also be checking for any suggestions, ideas, or feedback you guys may have on the site, so feel free to reply with any ideas.

Please keep in mind that the site is still a work in progress. Some numbers are still off, the design will likely be changed some more, and we will be adding more statistics in the future. It will likely be updated a few more times before Demigod's release.

Change Log:
9/21/2009
- Fixed how player stats are saved to the database, so custom games now count for Ladder Rankings/Experience (not all custom games though, just ranked custom games).
- Added Notes tab to player pages. This will allow you to view and manage private notes for other players, which will eventually appear within Demigod itself. Only you can view notes you've written, and you cannot view other's notes or notes written about you.
- The player stats on the left side of the primary player page now includes a small description for each stat.
- Fixed minor bugs with graphs.
- Fixed other minor bugs.

6/5/2009
- Added "Ladder" stats and rankings, which include Skirmish and Pantheon games.
- Updated "Overall" stats to include everything, Overall is not ranked.
- Added Tournament Stats to player stats page.
- Player's games listing now shows "NA" if a game is not counted.
- Updated search page to show more information and be more informative.
- Updated achievements page, it will be turned on when the stats are reset.
- Other minor bug fixes and design changes.

5/18/2009
- Added graphs for each Pantheon tournament.
- Added graphs for maps.
- Added graphs for Demigods.
- Minor bug fixes.
- More changes to back-end for API.

5/11/2009
- Player stat charts! Go to any player's initial page and you'll see some cool new charts and a slightly different layout.
- New tournament lists page (click on View All Tournaments at the bottom of any Pantheon page).
- Added current team progress chart (by percentage) to the right of the Pantheon page.
- Minor performance and back-end tweaks.

4/29/2009
- Lots of back-end changes to prepare for public API.
- Added sorting options to the Top Demigods and Maps pages.
- Updated all pages to make a more consistent error message system.
- Updated player search to avoid certain errors.

4/24/2009
- Maps statistics! You can now view overall statistics for each map, as well as how you did on each map.
- Fixed up some search issues.
- Added "Skirmish Statistics" to the player info page, on the bar to the right (click on Overall Statistics to see a dropdown).
- The games list now shows the game name.
- Tons of changes in the backend to make things faster and more accurate.

4/9/2009
- Added Top Demigods section, showing which Demigods are being used the most, win the most, etc.
- Added Demigods tab to player info page, showing which Demigods each player has played their stats for that Demigod (note: stats are inaccurate for the time being).
- Added Skirmish Rankings tab to Top Players.
- Major changes to how we are collecting stats and data.
- Minor image and backend changes.

4/7/2009
- Added sorting to games list, search sorting coming later.
- Added small arrow icons to headers to show you which column is currently sorted, and in which direction.
- Updated games listing to make it more readable, added a new page for each game for extended info (click on the date to see the page).
- Minor background changes.

3/31/2009
- Sorting now works on rankings pages, has not yet been implemented into other pages.
- Search page columns slightly tweaked.
- Search bar now works properly in Chrome.
- Player info page now shows rank and favor points for overall and custom game stats.
- Other minor changes.

3/23/2009
- New design!
- Added experience and overall rank to search page. All search statistics should now be "overall" statistics, not custom game or tournament stats.
- All pages now have proper headers and titles, should make things easier to navigate and harder to get lost.
- Player info page now shows the player's avatar and lists tournaments the player has participated in by default.
- General player statistics are now relegated to the right side of the player info page. Clicking on "Overall Stats" will dropdown a box that allows you to switch between overall and custom game stats.
- Search box now submits by pressing enter.
- Added message to bottom of ranking page saying "Note: Rankings are updated once daily at midnight EST."
- Small presentation changes for numbers and dates.

3/10/2009
- Added new "Experience" rating on nearly any page that shows a player.
- You can now see what team a player is on for tournament rankings.
- Games list now shows the game type (Conquest, Flag Control, etc.).
- Added player count for each team on the tournament info page (note: this may not be accurate at the moment).
- Added "Top Clans" button that redirects to nowhere (for now).
- Renamed all instances of "Skirmish" to "Custom Games" (let me know if you find any I missed).
- Added tabs to top of rankings pages to switch between Overall rankings and Custom Game rankings.
- All instances of "Forces of Dark" renamed to "Forces of Darkness."
- Minor design, wording, and bug fixes.

3/5/2009
- Redesigned the player page and added tabs for separating stats in a more user-friendly manner.
- Added a player search bar to all Pantheon pages (top right corner).
- Separated skirmish, overall, and tournament stats into individual pages.
- Added an achievements page, but data is inaccurate (see Known Bugs below).
- You can now view a list of games a player has played.
- Clicking on any rank number will take you to the rankings list with that player highlighted.
- Added 2 buttons at the top of the page: Pantheon Tournaments and Top Players.
- "Pantheon Tournaments" button will take you to the latest (active or inactive) Pantheon tournament.
- Top Players now shows overall top players, not skirmish top players.
- Tournament information page now shows each team, the top players for that team, and the team's information.

Once again, the Pantheon statistics website is located at http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com. I look forward to your feedback!

Bara

Comments (Page 16)

226

HorseRadish

on Apr 22, 2009

GunslingerBara

reply 25

HorseRadish: I didn't realize that the achievement items page lists your favor points too. That, actually, is the single player favor points, and does not affect the multiplayer afaik. However, GPG has a solution and should be pushing it out soon. I believe they're currently testing it (unless they pushed an update late last night that I don't know about).

Bara

I have never played a single player game!!! So how do I have Favor?

Didn't think it was worth the time after 8 months of beta testing.

And why does that number match my in game favor?

227

GunslingerBara

on Apr 22, 2009

You said the number matches your in-game number? So in a multiplayer game you're getting negative favor points? According to the database, your overall favor points are 4445.

Bara

228

wzrd

on Apr 22, 2009

Bara

I still don't have stats that I can find. At least not on http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/.

I've played every day since Saturday (not yet today), not just on the weekend.

Thanks,

Matt

229

HorseRadish

on Apr 22, 2009

GunslingerBara

reply 2

I believe multiplayer favor points do affect some aspects of single player. However, the multiplayer favor points are calculated on the server end, not the client end, whereas the single player is calculated in-game at the end.

You said the number matches your in-game number? So in a multiplayer game you're getting negative favor points? According to the database, your overall favor points are 4445.

Bara

Bara when I get home today And I launch Demigod and go to multiplayer Pantheon. I click fight and I get into a game I will have -2090 Favor and the option to use the Swift Anklet Favor item I purchased long ago. can't pick a new one with negative favor. I mean I still win but Thier are other favor items I prefer unless you can guarentee me all domination matches.

230

Ke5trel

on Apr 22, 2009

I'm getting negative favor now too. Once you guys put the proxy patch through it might be best just to scrap Epoch 0 and start over from scratch...Also you might want to close the code loophole that allows you to enter your own favor point total in multiplayer games..

231

GunslingerBara

on Apr 22, 2009

wzrd

reply 3

Bara

I still don't have stats that I can find. At least not on http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/.

I've played every day since Saturday (not yet today), not just on the weekend.

Thanks,

Matt

HorseRadish

reply 4

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 2I believe multiplayer favor points do affect some aspects of single player. However, the multiplayer favor points are calculated on the server end, not the client end, whereas the single player is calculated in-game at the end.

You said the number matches your in-game number? So in a multiplayer game you're getting negative favor points? According to the database, your overall favor points are 4445.

Bara

Bara when I get home today And I launch Demigod and go to multiplayer Pantheon. I click fight and I get into a game I will have -2090 Favor and the option to use the Swift Anklet Favor item I purchased long ago. can't pick a new one with negative favor. I mean I still win but Thier are other favor items I prefer unless you can guarentee me all domination matches.

Ke5trel

reply 5

We have a fix forthcoming for both issues. The negative favor points bug will be fixed in an update coming up. As far as I know, it's still in testing. I may have a solution for the "games not getting saved" bug and we'll be pushing an update for that later today too.

Ke5trel: How can you change your favor points? That's the first I've heard of it, but GPG may already know about it.

Bara

232

HorseRadish

on Apr 22, 2009

GunslingerBara

reply 6

Quoting wzrd,
reply 3
Bara

I still don't have stats that I can find. At least not on http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/.

I've played every day since Saturday (not yet today), not just on the weekend.

Thanks,

Matt

Quoting HorseRadish,
reply 4

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 2I believe multiplayer favor points do affect some aspects of single player. However, the multiplayer favor points are calculated on the server end, not the client end, whereas the single player is calculated in-game at the end.

You said the number matches your in-game number? So in a multiplayer game you're getting negative favor points? According to the database, your overall favor points are 4445.

Bara

Bara when I get home today And I launch Demigod and go to multiplayer Pantheon. I click fight and I get into a game I will have -2090 Favor and the option to use the Swift Anklet Favor item I purchased long ago. can't pick a new one with negative favor. I mean I still win but Thier are other favor items I prefer unless you can guarentee me all domination matches.

Quoting Ke5trel,
reply 5
I'm getting negative favor now too. Once you guys put the proxy patch through it might be best just to scrap Epoch 0 and start over from scratch...Also you might want to close the code loophole that allows you to enter your own favor point total in multiplayer games..

We have a fix forthcoming for both issues. The negative favor points bug will be fixed in an update coming up. As far as I know, it's still in testing. I may have a solution for the "games not getting saved" bug and we'll be pushing an update for that later today too.

Ke5trel: How can you change your favor points? That's the first I've heard of it, but GPG may already know about it.

Bara

go into game.prefs with notepad do a find for points= and change the number after to something under 10000

instant favor

233

GunslingerBara

on Apr 22, 2009

Does that work in multiplayer? Support tested that a few days ago and when they went into a custom game in multiplayer the number was different.

Bara

234

Ke5trel

on Apr 22, 2009

it does, you just have to play a LAN game first. I haven't tried it but any of the Live gang should be able to replicate it for you.

Edit: O and you were looking for an example of a Skirmish game with stupidly asymmetrical sides earlier - http://forums.demigodthegame.com/348495

235

HorseRadish

on Apr 22, 2009

HorseRadish

reply 4

Quoting GunslingerBara,
reply 2
I believe multiplayer favor points do affect some aspects of single player. However, the multiplayer favor points are calculated on the server end, not the client end, whereas the single player is calculated in-game at the end.

You said the number matches your in-game number? So in a multiplayer game you're getting negative favor points? According to the database, your overall favor points are 4445.

Bara

Bara when I get home today And I launch Demigod and go to multiplayer Pantheon. I click fight and I get into a game I will have -2090 Favor and the option to use the Swift Anklet Favor item I purchased long ago. can't pick a new one with negative favor. I mean I still win but Thier are other favor items I prefer unless you can guarentee me all domination matches.

Here was my ingame favor first game i launched when i got home Bara like I said -2090 favor

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5808/ingamefavor.jpg

236

GunslingerBara

on Apr 23, 2009

Thanks for the screenshot. GPG is still working on a patch for that.

How about the issues with games not being saved? Are the stats saving for everyone now?

Bara

237

lambdaman

on Apr 23, 2009

GunslingerBara

reply 11

Thanks for the screenshot. GPG is still working on a patch for that.

How about the issues with games not being saved? Are the stats saving for everyone now?

Bara

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/257287/player/11954/

and here's a "game" that Pantheon claims I lost at exactly the same time:

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/257294/player/11954/

238

wzrd

on Apr 23, 2009

GunslingerBara

reply 11

Thanks for the screenshot. GPG is still working on a patch for that.

How about the issues with games not being saved? Are the stats saving for everyone now?

Bara

Finally have stats showing up! Thanks for the fix, Bara.

239

Copingsaw

on Apr 23, 2009

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/games/player/20965/

It shows me as playing two games at the exact same time on cataract, one a custom game and one a pantheon game. The only game I actually played was the pantheon game.

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/254596/player/20965/

For this specific game it shows me losing badly when I am 100% certain that my team won that game in a rout.

240

GunslingerBara

on Apr 23, 2009

lambdaman

reply 12

I played a 2v3 on Crucible this evening and it doesn't seem to be showing up in my games list. (EDIT) now it is -- I may have been mislead by the fact that the overall statistics seem to lag behind actual games played. I also get the games in weird pairs with one of the entries in the pair having the wrong outcome and no participants. e.g., here's the real game I just played, 3v3 on Leviathan:

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/257287/player/11954/

and here's a "game" that Pantheon claims I lost at exactly the same time:

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/257294/player/11954/

Copingsaw

reply 14

I've been playing both custom and pantheon games every day for almost the last week. None of the games were being recorded until lats night. Having said that, I think the accuracy of the recording still leaves something to be desired.

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/games/player/20965/

It shows me as playing two games at the exact same time on cataract, one a custom game and one a pantheon game. The only game I actually played was the pantheon game.

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/254596/player/20965/

For this specific game it shows me losing badly when I am 100% certain that my team won that game in a rout.

This is a common issue and is being looked into. Did anyone drop from your games, if you know? Even if they dropped during the initial setup before the game started, that would be good to know. In the meantime, I'll see what I can do on the stats end to ignore those games.

Bara

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