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 6)

GunslingerBara

on Mar 23, 2009

Yup, the new design is completed. Most of the changes were relegated to the UI or backend changes for future expansion. The change list is as follows:

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.

For bug posts, if the bug isn't listed in the Known Issues list then you dont have to post it again, but if you have any new data or information that may help us in resolving the bugs then feel free to contribute. The current Known Issues list is as follows:

Known Issues:
- Achievements page does not show unlocked achievements.
- Games played numbers do not match across pages.
- All players showing up on one team at random.
- Players have games in their games played list that they never played.
- Losing streak continues counting despite winning a game.
- Certain games are not being recorded, either due to player disconnect or a bug related to AI players.
- Some games missing players entirely.

If you have any information that can help resolve the above issues, or if you've found a new bug that isn't in the above list, reply here. Thanks for the help!

Bara

ZubaZ

on Mar 23, 2009

Nice update!

Micah

on Mar 23, 2009

I would give you +1 karma for the update but it Karma doesn't work in Google Chrome.

Micah

on Mar 23, 2009

In Google Chrome, clicking on the text inside the player search box does not clear the next nor does it move the cursor to the box. However, clicking in the box but *after* the "Player Search" string does the expected behavior.

I know how much web developers love browser compatability issues.

Trigeminal

on Mar 24, 2009

Could we see experience change per match?

Gabberkooij

on Mar 24, 2009

Would be nice to add sorting to the header. So we con sort on playing time etc

GunslingerBara

on Mar 24, 2009

Micah

reply 3

I would give you +1 karma for the update but it Karma doesn't work in Google Chrome.

Karma does not seem to work at all on the demigod forums. It's an issue I have yet to find time to look at. But thanks anyways

Micah

reply 4

I didn't test the search box in Chrome. I'm using javascript so it would make sense that that would break. I'll look into it, thanks for pointing it out.

Trigeminal

reply 5

Could we see experience change per match?

Interesting suggestion. I'll find out if this is possible.

Gabberkooij

reply 6

Would be nice to add sorting to the header. So we con sort on playing time etc

Sorting is one of the top items on my list of things to do. It'll be coming soon

Bara

Micah

on Mar 24, 2009

There should be a way to see your "Custom Game Rank" on the player profile page. When I search for myself and find my profile page there is no way (that I can find) to figure out what Custom Game rank I have. As far as I can tell, the only way to find this information is to scroll through hundreds of entries in the Custom Game Ranking list.

GunslingerBara

on Mar 24, 2009

Micah

reply 8

That was something I removed for the time being due to spacing issues. I'll add it back soon.

Bara

HorseRadish

on Mar 25, 2009

Sweet updates looking very nice

Ke5trel

on Mar 25, 2009

Hi Bara,

Site looks great

Two things -

I'm seeing a DC on my record that wasn't there yesterday. I didn't disconnect from any games, but I did have one game where all 7 other players left game simultaneously 90 seconds before we won (game # 4 on the list). We all got stats for that game though. I'm thinking either they had a desynch with me that didn't pop up on my side or I showed a disconnect even though I was still ingame and finished the game to victory screen, and they ejected me.. I know that isn't your area, but I thought I'd pass on the "ghost disconnect."

Also, at some point the game time was recorded on the games played list. Are we going to see that again, or was that permanently removed? It's not essential, but I liked it.

Thanks

GunslingerBara

on Mar 25, 2009

It's likely that you were kicked by the others due to a bad connection. Not sure how the game handles that. You say you completed the game (I'm assuming vs. AI) so I'm not sure if that counts as a disconnect or not.

The time played may return in the future. I'm coming up with some ideas on reorganizing the games played list and make it more like the default player info page. If I do that, I'll have more room than a simple table can provide me, so I should be able to bring back time played.

Bara

Ke5trel

on Mar 25, 2009

hmmm, I have the best connection I can get...in New Mexico :/

It looks to me like the system counted it as a disconnect but still gave me full credit for playing and winning. I can't figure out if that's a good thing or not ^^

Anyway, thanks for the quick response, and glad to see time might be added back in.

Blitz64

on Mar 26, 2009

I only played one game on 3/26 but it shows up twice on the games list http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/games/player/11440/

Game #1 and #2 are the same game. It was 2v2 all humans. Then near the end of the game, my computer froze for 3 seconds and I was disconnected from everyone. I continue to play the game with everyone becoming AI and won the game. I think that game showed up as game #1 since everyone got disconnected.

My partner 'astropuff' also won the game so it shows up again on my game list as game #2 with everyone's name intact.

Ke5trel

on Mar 26, 2009

Did that add a disconnect to your stats, Blitz? The game I referenced @ reply # 86 did the same thing. I got a win after the freeze against AI and one for the game my allies finished. Does the doubling extend into rank considerations or is it just a games list thing?

Incidentally we did not kick/eject Blitz in the March 26 game. The game hung for a couple of seconds, we so a split second status screen, and the annoucer told us AI had taken over for Blitz. I'm going to make a bug post about this.

I left the March 26 game soon after Blitz split off but it looks like I still got an achievement? If I had left and my partner Prozombe won, would I get the win as well? Would it track achievements earned by the AI who took over for me and apply them toward Experience/Rank?

It seems to me that when you leave a game it should count as a loss for you with "participant" credit only, regardless of what happens in the game after you leave.

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