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Chieftain
Hi All,
I've seen some mentions about people's rank being reset on the leaderboard and it just happened to me yesterday. I am relatively new to online playing, had 14 wins + 9 losses Sunday morning with a 122 position, then I won 3 ranked games in a row. After that I went to check how much I advanced and was shocked to see that I am at roughly 8000 position with 1200 score (default, same as people with 0 games). However, the number of wins/losses did not get reset, but instead they got updated with an error 16-10 instead of 17-9. Clearly, there is a bug in the administration software and there is not much we can do about that. However, it would be very useful to figure out what conditions, circumstances trigger the bug, so we can be careful to avoid it.
So, my guesses based on my experience:
1. It maybe related to short time between result updates, as it happened to me 2 victories happened with fairly short time differences because the opponents just quit early (2 Aztec's failing to rush me they decided to give up). It was about 10-15 minutes between 2 victories.
2. I checked the standing only a few minutes after the last game ended, this might be the trigger if it happened at the same time the software was trying to update the result. I read that if you check the board before playing any MP game, then your score starts from 0 instead of 1200, so obviously there is a bug with the checking, so maybe this one is also related to that.
3. A very strange thing happened in the last game: a player quit and re-joined the game as a different civ 3 times! I did not know such thing was possible in a ranked match. First he started as Aztec and attacked my capitol in 3600BC with a warrior and he lost (I also had a warrior defending), then he quit, but a minute later re-joined as the Russians coming from the same location - killed his warrior again few turns later closer to his capitol, then he quit and re-joined the game again this time as the Romans. By that time I was close to his capitol, attacked and killed a warrior. Although, I did not get the city (he had another defender), he quit again and did not come back.
I do not know how this last strange re-join could be related to the rank reset, but this was the last game I played before checked the board and the experience was bizarre so I list it as another option here. Players, who have experienced rank reset, please post unusual, strange circumstance that you remember happening in the games before you noticed the rest. Also whether you had similar situations to the above listed to support any of these guesses for the cause.
Thanks!
I've seen some mentions about people's rank being reset on the leaderboard and it just happened to me yesterday. I am relatively new to online playing, had 14 wins + 9 losses Sunday morning with a 122 position, then I won 3 ranked games in a row. After that I went to check how much I advanced and was shocked to see that I am at roughly 8000 position with 1200 score (default, same as people with 0 games). However, the number of wins/losses did not get reset, but instead they got updated with an error 16-10 instead of 17-9. Clearly, there is a bug in the administration software and there is not much we can do about that. However, it would be very useful to figure out what conditions, circumstances trigger the bug, so we can be careful to avoid it.
So, my guesses based on my experience:
1. It maybe related to short time between result updates, as it happened to me 2 victories happened with fairly short time differences because the opponents just quit early (2 Aztec's failing to rush me they decided to give up). It was about 10-15 minutes between 2 victories.
2. I checked the standing only a few minutes after the last game ended, this might be the trigger if it happened at the same time the software was trying to update the result. I read that if you check the board before playing any MP game, then your score starts from 0 instead of 1200, so obviously there is a bug with the checking, so maybe this one is also related to that.
3. A very strange thing happened in the last game: a player quit and re-joined the game as a different civ 3 times! I did not know such thing was possible in a ranked match. First he started as Aztec and attacked my capitol in 3600BC with a warrior and he lost (I also had a warrior defending), then he quit, but a minute later re-joined as the Russians coming from the same location - killed his warrior again few turns later closer to his capitol, then he quit and re-joined the game again this time as the Romans. By that time I was close to his capitol, attacked and killed a warrior. Although, I did not get the city (he had another defender), he quit again and did not come back.
I do not know how this last strange re-join could be related to the rank reset, but this was the last game I played before checked the board and the experience was bizarre so I list it as another option here. Players, who have experienced rank reset, please post unusual, strange circumstance that you remember happening in the games before you noticed the rest. Also whether you had similar situations to the above listed to support any of these guesses for the cause.
Thanks!
