We are activating a new external leaderboard & statistics system – let’s call it an ‘extension’ to the game – to replace and surpass the (now fucked-up) in-game stats. It started as the Elite Solo League (1v1), but it looks like we’ll extend it to team games and tournaments as well, so that’s a bit of a working title now.
This new system now employs a background app, let's call it the Elite Reporter, written by our resident tech-priest, to send results and replay files to our server automatically. So instead of the upload page you just launch the app and play Elite normally.
Main points:
- Everything is handled automatically
- We are also recording team games for a probable 2v2 ladder and generic 3v3/global stats
- Registering not required (but linking your forum profile is available)
- Replays uploaded automatically and available for download
- Still can’t get all the lul stats of the old ladder
- Still planning to add features on the fly, e.g. tournament stats on player profile
In any case, I am now hoping for wide-as-possible use of the Elite Reporter app, even for those not interested in actual ranking, so we can get delicious data and statistics and iron out the bugs. The app can be downloaded on the Elite download page and the ESL registration page.
Link: http://www.dawnofwar.info/esl
So what is ranked?
With the auto-reports, this is simple now.
- Automatch games
- Custom games where each player chats "Ranked" (and only that word! we are not going to program an AI to interpret the semantics of whether it was agreed or not)