Thread: What Event Ranking says of game population

Originally Posted by Cobblemaniac

I'm interested to know if we can calculate the number of unions and players that rely on para-train to run their union rankings.

If we do have this information, calculating the cut off point for the demon clears and individual PP for non para-train users could really help in not resulting in a futile body abuse session every single union event.

There's two good ways to go about this:
1. Everyone strong just joins a few strong Unions. There is plenty of dead weight in Ixion for example, and seeing how Drama Club dropped to... 22 people before this event, I assume clean-up was the reason why. Anyway, this way, everyone automatically gets their best rankings with minimal amount of effort.
2. Co-operation. Sharing the same amount of kills results in you all getting the #1(-#5) awards. For example, if the entire community decides that Thou Shalt Only Do 100 Ult Kills, then you can have ALL the Unions get the full Dragon Eye Shards.

Realistically speaking, I've never seen #2 come into fruition in anything other than extremely small scale. Which is why people tend to flock to tactic#1. Power begets more power.

Originally Posted by Slashley

There's two good ways to go about this:
1. Everyone strong just joins a few strong Unions. There is plenty of dead weight in Ixion for example, and seeing how Drama Club dropped to... 22 people before this event, I assume clean-up was the reason why. Anyway, this way, everyone automatically gets their best rankings with minimal amount of effort.
2. Co-operation. Sharing the same amount of kills results in you all getting the #1(-#5) awards. For example, if the entire community decides that Thou Shalt Only Do 100 Ult Kills, then you can have ALL the Unions get the full Dragon Eye Shards.

Realistically speaking, I've never seen #2 come into fruition in anything other than extremely small scale. Which is why people tend to flock to tactic#1. Power begets more power.

Damn, I never actually considered option 2 to be a thing...

The top level unions could certainly co-ordinate that if they're willing to though, it only becomes a problem if you're trying to control 9-10k players, or 500 (if I'm being optimistically realistic on the number of hardcore players?)

Originally Posted by Slashley

2. Co-operation. Sharing the same amount of kills results in you all getting the #1(-#5) awards. For example, if the entire community decides that Thou Shalt Only Do 100 Ult Kills, then you can have ALL the Unions get the full Dragon Eye Shards.

Midrange Slacking Treaty intensifies

well, here's the 2nd round of results from my union... (which is better on the expert/ult scale, but worse on my individual scale)

Done with the (few) data I have about Personal Points. It seems the population on this event was similar, but people clearly got more points on this one. I suppose it's on part that people know more how to farm points, and part that it was easier to get points here than in Lust with her debuff resist.
I find specially interesting that 444 points rank. I thought that 1 Expert was the minimum people would do: I was very wrong, a population of more than 1.000 accounts has less than 1 Expert.
Edit: I don't know why the text is adjacent. I put a good space between the columns, but on final version it disappears.

Even with the rank rewards, some people just don't care about union events... especially since Lilims are easily outclassed (and quite a lot don't realize how broken the pride weapons get at lv150)

The fire union event has ended. Here's some data:
highscore pp 474, rank 10456
highscore pp 9604, rank 8391
highscore expert 1, rank 1949
highscore ultimate 1, rank 1124

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The fire union event has ended. Here's some data:
highscore pp 474, rank 10456
highscore pp 9604, rank 8391
highscore expert 1, rank 1949
highscore ultimate 1, rank 1124

182 people between you and me

well, if you're still collecting data guys:

The lightning union event has ended. Here's some data:
highscore expert 1, rank 1873
highscore ultimate 1, rank 1124
highscore pp 20, rank 10483
highscore pp 10317, rank 7991
highscore pp 62346, rank 5519
highscore pp 5263294, rank 413