Before Staffa and I took over the "Most Rank Dog" spot, I could remember two others who were there for some time. They were Norin from Imperia Galactica and Andrew Chai an independent. Both have stopped playing for quite a while.
Andrew is now at rank 1237 with 2733 score and Norin is now at rank 740 with 8155 score.
Can you do a check on their scores to see if they have degraded or have they just remained at the score where they stopped playing? That's possible to tell, right?
         
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I believe one of the reasons for degradation is for the newbies to have a better chance to take the top ranking spots from oldies who have stopped playing.
Yes, it is likely that the newbies will eventually overtake a dormant player through many games, but I thought the degradation makes it easier and gives the motivation for oldtimers to keep submitting.
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Cotal, I jumped out to chat with Idleprocess in the MWC channel.
Then I had to drive to work. 
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| Work! Egads they got to you as well! We are all butt slaves, everyone of us . . . Coggs in the wheels of industry so encumbered a carelessly broken ! Single grains amongst a sea of oppressed minion! Just worthless concubines salivating like lap dogs to the desires of the rich aristocracy! Aggggg . . . |
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U like drama, don't you Cotal?
Oh the point of what I was trying to say was that in the old days the game scores where alot lower anyway, so I'm not sure the players you mentioned provide an acurrate indication of decay rate.
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The mechanisms of decaying is such that the scores in our list are not visibly reduced/aged (ie the scores on our list doesn't drop from 100 to 95 to 90) but the ageing effect is only evident in the final score. So I think it is possible to see if there is decay. I leave it to our expert mathematican to advise.
BlueSteel called it the MeatVerse in the "Metaverse Ranks" thread, same place I got the "Most Ranked Dog" from Kit. Couslee was quick to catch onto that 
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I suggested a "Save our Metaverse" fund some time ago. Maybe they should set up an electronic donation box on the site. 
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| Alternately, perhaps MEATaverse could make a "hall of fame" (say limit it to 20 or 30 names/scores) for players that have become inactive, and let the current players have a chance at top-dog. This would allow them to retain their legendary status, AND provide an obtainable goal that is reasonable for the ACTIVE players. imnsho. |
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I think that may be a good idea, Couslee. As you said, they could be re-inserted if they reactivate themselves. But needs some coding which SD can't do without resources.
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| This could mean either auto-degradation starts after 4 months of inactivity (his last submission was April 11) or he upgraded to Drengin.net and converted his scores August 11. Is there any way to check if an player is Galciv-only or Drengin.net? |
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I don't think there is any way to check regarding Drengin subscription. I doubt he is still around though so we can discount him upgrading to Drengin. And the exact 4 months is too coincidential.
What we could do now to confirm is to look for a player like Andrew who has stopped playing 4 months ago and see if his scores get auto-recalced when he crosses this boundary.
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| Regarding my dramatics, I am in a strange/happy mood today |
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I wouldn't want to catch you in a foul mood. Does cutlery or furniture go flying?
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Yes, you did. It must be fun being the King and Queen of your very own castle.
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IceMole, try if you can get Nidaros (Emperor of Imperia Galactica)  Link to map exactly to 4 months.
I will keep my eye on Matthew Gardner Link who stopped playing on 20 Apr to see if his scores automatically gets recalced on 20 Aug thereabouts. For record here, his Meta score with eight games is 1688 pts. His profile score is 1353.2 pts.
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| He baiting me to go down to his level and he is not going to succeed. I'll rather walk away every time than engage in this meaningless talk. |
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BWAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!! LIKE THIS POST IS REALLY WALKING AWAY!!!!!!!!
OH THAT'S RICH!!!!!!
More concerned with his image than the truth. Sorry. You got called on it yet again.
LMAO!!!!
  
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| I've just noticed that the low ranking player with current degradation as well as Nidaros and Matthew Gardener have very low ID numbers. |
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They were the earliest to register on the Metaverse.
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That's weird, he shouldn't have passed the 4 mth mark yet.
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| Another possibility is that running constant recalculations may be too resource-intensive for Stardock to want to do it regularly. If I remember correctly, the last metaverse-wide recalc took quite a while to complete, so it may be a more difficult task than we realize. |
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It took them nearly a full two days to complete it. Sounds to me like it's very much a big thing.
I don't really see a problem with leaving players' scores alone when they are gone.
Nor do I. They also may be something to shoot for.
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So our conclusion currently is that there is a score degradation for dormant players.
The question is whether the degradation is triggered on a meta-wide basis or on a player specific basis.
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I suggested before that people who makes scoring suggestions must first be a Drengin.net subscriber.
They must also donate $x for every suggestion made.
Budding politicians should get Drengin.net for the Political Machine. Seems like a game right down their alley.
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I've got it!
Stardock should hold a poll for us to vote for our preferred scoring system. Each vote must be backed up by cold hard cash. SD will implement the new system based on the one with the highest cash votes. 
Reminds me of e-bidding.
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You might be on to something, IceMole (cue X Files soundtrack).
Let's keep an eye on the oldies.
Nastavnik has a low ID - 581. Let's see if he gets a recalc. Current scores 4483/4462.2
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