Sandalak: Home of Prestige and Honor!

[Indirik]

You just have to love what winning battle does for your nobles.

Honor:
* Sandalak has the top 20 spots. (One Ikalak noble has 33 honor, but the Sandalak nobles with 33 honor all have more prestige.)
*Sandalak has 42 of the top 50 spots.

Prestige:
* Sandalak has the top 31 spots.
* Sandalak has 46 of the top 50 spots.

In the short term, this will allow Sandalak to recruit more troops than the other realms. In the long term, that will even out as everyone gains more honor, even from losing.

[Noldorin]

It also means that Sandalak has been in most battles, which is an interesting way to go in a 3-gang group... But hey, its turning out nicely somehow!

[skiarxon@gmail.com]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgxEJOi6GtA

[Indirik]

Just to follow up on this:

Things have level out quite a bit in the past five months. However, Sandalak still has a rather commanding lead. While no longer in total domination, Sandalak maintains a near stranglehold on the top spots, and a commanding lead in the top 25.

Total nobles:
Taselak:  66  =  40%
Sandalak: 56  =  34%
Ikalak:  42  =  26%


Top 25 Prestige:
* Sandalak: 17  =  68%
* Taselak: 8  =  32%
* Ikalak: 0  = 0%

Sandalak has 10 of the top twelve spots.

Top 25 Honor:
* Sandalak: 15  =  60%
* Taselak: 9  =  36%
* Ikalak: 1  = 4%   (Manoj Eastwood, ranked #23)

Sandalak has 7 of the top 10, and 10 of the top 14.

Despite having almost exactly 1/3rd of the nobility, Sandalak still occupies a disproportionately high spot on the charts.

I'm surprised at Ikalak. They've been in a lot of big battles in the past couple months. I guess they just have a lot of ground to make up.

[Thehatter]

Although Taselak has a moto....

[Kai]

All that being high on the H/P list means is that you lose most of your battles.

[Indirik]

Mrh? You get more h/p for winning battles than losing. If you lose all your battles, you have to fight a LOT more to get higher than everyone else.  Sandalak doesn't fight that many.

[Kai]

wiki:Fighting even when outnumbered raises it more, as long as you are not leading your men on a suicide mission

[Indirik]

Fighting on the losing side of a 4:1 against you can theoretically gain you more that winning in a 3:1 for your side. In practice, however, winning battles gains you much more than losing. Setting up circumstances where constantly losing gains you more than constantly winning would require some ridiculously contrived setup.

[Kai]

How do you know?

[Anaris]

Because he actually has access to the code, and can tell what the formulas are for calculating prestige and honour gain from battle.

[Zakilevo]

Because he actually has access to the code, and can tell what the formulas are for calculating prestige and honour gain from battle.

I must admit I laughed pretty hard. 

[Kai]

Then update the wiki.

Why are you laughing? is it funny to hide information from players and then be smug about it?

[Sacha]

Then update the wiki.

Why are you laughing? is it funny to hide information from players and then be smug about it?

It is now!

[Ravier Nebehn]

Then update the wiki.

Why are you laughing? is it funny to hide information from players and then be smug about it?

Clearly there's a big Dev conspiracy here.