| Andy | Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 02:40 pm 
It is our intention to increase the monthly awards given to the top group of players with the highest ranks in each world. The rank depends on the total score of the country.
The score of each country is key in the competition for the monthly awards. The score depends on many game indexes, on the population of the country and on its game level.
Game levels are a major factor in the score and the weight of the game level in the total score will increase next week, Nov. 15, from 130 to 150 points per level. Once a country goes up a game level, the score will start to increase, it can take several days before the score is increased by 100 points but the total increase will reach 150 points and will take about 2 weeks to complete.
This means that a country in level 8 can expect 1200 score points just because it has reached level 8.
Cash in countries become crucial as low and negative cash levels have a strong negative effect on the game levels. If the country has negative (net) cash, it will remain in game level 1. Currently it is impossible for a country in game level 1 to reach a high ranking in any of the worlds.
A new component in the score is the record of the empire selling population. If the empire is engaged in the sales of population the score of all the countries in the empire will decline. The decline will range from 100 up to 500 points in extreme cases.
The selling of population has a long memory and the damage will take a long time to repair.
Other indexes have a declining weight on the score.
As the game level includes many indexes, there is no need to include these indexes as separate factors in the score but some indexes are not influencing the game level and have an independent status within the computation of the score.
The financial index is important and is both a factor in the game levels and an independent factor, the supply index which is a measure of the country meeting its obligation to its citizens and purchasing all good that are needed, the welfare and consumption quality indexes are all factors in the main score. |
