
What happens when Big Boss players are in matches against Lords of White Spire? Positions on the leaderboard will remain the same. We'll be adjusting the Rank Scores of existing Lords to the new range, and compressing it a bit. What happens to the existing Lords of White Spire? This means that your rank score will have room to go both up and down, and players won't clump at the floor of 7,600. Second, we will be adjusting the bonus granted when you attain the rank of Lords of White Spire, such that a newly minted Lord begins at around 15,000. Furthermore, it is possible for Rank Score to decrease when placing 4th or above and increase when placing 5th or below, depending on the Rank Scores of your opponents. The higher your Rank Score compared to your opponents, the more you have at stake: a win will result in a smaller increase, and a loss will result in a larger decrease. In this system, the number of rank points gained or lost depends on the skill of your opponents.
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So we're making two changes to Lords of White Spire that will go live with the next update.įirst, we are switching the Rank Score update for Lords of White Spire to use the well-known Elo system. In other words, for Lords of White Spire, the dial needs to be turned all the way to the "accurate measurement of skill" setting.

Unfortunately, in the current design, the Lords of White Spire leaderboard has a tendency to devolve into a list of players who play Underlords the most, and we've heard from many of you that it should be a list of who plays the best. We like the balance we have struck between those two goals for Upstart through Big Boss.

As we noted at that time, we approach the design of the ranked mode from the perspective of balancing two goals that are in tension: giving players a sense of progress, and providing an accurate measurement of skill. "A few weeks ago we made some changes to ranked matchmaking, to make the Rank Score and update rules more transparent.
