Rankings are fubar

from Demigod Forums

Some screwy little fact I just noticed.  Some people ranked ahead of me in the Overall statistics have never even played a MP game against a human opponent.  They have racked up win's and no losses by playing in something called Rumble room without even playing against another player.    Games like that should not count for a players OverAll statistics.  I mean hell if all the Singleplayer games I had played counted towards my Rank I'd be #1 for sure.  Its just plain stupid for something like that to affect your rankings.  On the otherhand if you join a skirmish or Pantheon game and the other team quits and you have to play because Favor is jacked up and my current thinking is that your favor points are far more likely to dissappear without reason when you disconnect then I'd say playing against AI should count in that case as you were at least trying to play other players.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Speaking on this situation. I have played only online in skirmish and Panthenon. And sometimes the system has just put me into a game with ONLY AI's so its easy wins. Not only taht, sometimes when a game starts with people all the other people drop out from my game. So my wins are honest, since im using the online system, but its been either dropping everyone else thus defaulting me a win or actually just insertin AI's in if it can't find people anyways.

 

In my opinion the devs should just eliminate a player completely if they disconnect or lag out or leave the game instead of allowing a stupid AI to control that said hero and then feed the enemy completely. And if everyone drops from someones game...im not sure what to do there. And im wondering, do they play their own version too? Thus getting a free win as well?

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

I think the AI can actually be pretty decent on higher difficulties. Actually I havent played it on Nightmare but I think in MP games the AI is set to Normal  and it should be set to Nightmare.   Doing that might help things.

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting OrexxerO, reply 1
In my opinion the devs should just eliminate a player completely if they disconnect or lag out or leave the game instead of allowing a stupid AI to control that said hero and then feed the enemy completely.
End of OrexxerO's quote

Or, better yet, just give no bonus gold for killing an AI DG in a multiplayer game. They would still suck to have as allies, but they wouldn't be worse than an idle human.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Awesome idea Lemmin   that would help a lot.   Better than Not having a teammate and they wouldnt hurt you by giving a lot of gold to the enemy.  At the very least they should not be worth full gold for a kill..  Maybe 15% or so of Normal.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Something, anything, would be better then the current system. Just hope they fix it sooner rather then later although I realize that the guys runnin all the stuff have alot of food on their plate at the moment.