Afterlife (with XP mod) Statistics
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Afterlife (with XP mod) Statistics
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Afterlife Statistics: Per Match-Up
So, general stats are not that interesting, let's see per-matchup stats, there things go interesting. We will study winrates with games of only 1600+ players.
First, the general table of winrates among factions (mirrors are prohibites in the bot, so no stats for them, but well...)
Now, we can divide matchups according to these stats: Very Tough, Tough, and Fine. Let's look at all of them, starting with
Very Tough
Dwarf vs Loy is somewhat unexcepted, I'd think Loy can fight dwarf better with chargers, mages, heal and other options this faction has. But stats say as they say. Dwarf has enough resistances to stand their grounds firmly against Loy, we have this 75% winrate for them.
Elf vs Undead, though, is not unexpected. I remember in 1v1 stats it was also like 70% winrate for Elf, although some believed it's an outlier. In afterlife some folks said that Elf is clearly superior and it's not clear what to do: mages, both with fire and arcane, as well as Woses just crushes Undead. Some other folks said Undead has powers to counter. Overall it seems playing Undead in this matchup is tricky, elvish arcane and fire mages and woses seem to be a really decent thing. So 72%.
Drake vs Orc, well. In usual 1v1 this is often believed to be favourable for Orc, especially on some specific rush-friendly maps. Orcs have cheap units, so the first night rush against Drakes with their mighty but expensive units achieves pretty good results. But Afterlife reverses this aspect. You'd better have expensive units with powerful upgrades than cheap units with mediocre upgrades. And it's the exactly this situation. Drakes units have very powerful upgrades, also their have access to healing and leadership. While Orcs' upgrades are not that great, and cheapness of recruited units have no much benefit here. After gathering these stats the balance patch for Orcs was applied, to enable Orcish Xbow to Orcish Slurbow to advance much faster (50 xp instead of 80 xp). Hopefully it may help a bit in this matchup, but we'll see after a while.
First, the general table of winrates among factions (mirrors are prohibites in the bot, so no stats for them, but well...)
Now, we can divide matchups according to these stats: Very Tough, Tough, and Fine. Let's look at all of them, starting with
Very Tough
- Dwarf vs Elf: winrate 78,48%
- Dwarf vs Loy: winrate 75,00%
- Elf vs Undead: winrate 72,29%
- Drake vs Orc: winrate 69,31%
Dwarf vs Loy is somewhat unexcepted, I'd think Loy can fight dwarf better with chargers, mages, heal and other options this faction has. But stats say as they say. Dwarf has enough resistances to stand their grounds firmly against Loy, we have this 75% winrate for them.
Elf vs Undead, though, is not unexpected. I remember in 1v1 stats it was also like 70% winrate for Elf, although some believed it's an outlier. In afterlife some folks said that Elf is clearly superior and it's not clear what to do: mages, both with fire and arcane, as well as Woses just crushes Undead. Some other folks said Undead has powers to counter. Overall it seems playing Undead in this matchup is tricky, elvish arcane and fire mages and woses seem to be a really decent thing. So 72%.
Drake vs Orc, well. In usual 1v1 this is often believed to be favourable for Orc, especially on some specific rush-friendly maps. Orcs have cheap units, so the first night rush against Drakes with their mighty but expensive units achieves pretty good results. But Afterlife reverses this aspect. You'd better have expensive units with powerful upgrades than cheap units with mediocre upgrades. And it's the exactly this situation. Drakes units have very powerful upgrades, also their have access to healing and leadership. While Orcs' upgrades are not that great, and cheapness of recruited units have no much benefit here. After gathering these stats the balance patch for Orcs was applied, to enable Orcish Xbow to Orcish Slurbow to advance much faster (50 xp instead of 80 xp). Hopefully it may help a bit in this matchup, but we'll see after a while.
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Re: Afterlife Statistics
Tough
Elf vs Orc, can't say much here, probably Orcs stay worse because of mediocre upgrades and lack of ranged (Elf's ranged is much more powerful).
Undead vs Drake is as controversial as in 1v1. This matchup is hard to play correctly for Drake, but not that one-sided. Although the map isn't big, which is bad for Drake, Drakes advancements are powerful. Cold damage of Undead is tremendous, but Infernos burn Undead a lot as well. So in their ToD both factions can deal devastating damage. So, it's an intense game, but easier for Undead, so 61,54%.
Dwarf vs Orc, well, this is more debatable than tough. Stats are a bit in favour for Dwarf, and some folks think that Dwarf has a clear upper hand here: his units far better than orcs. But other complain that orcish poison makes it quite hard for Dwarf to play (well, technically Dwarf can get poison as well if levels a thief up to the 3rd lvl, but no marksman and not that easy). If Dwarf doesn't handle poisioning of his units well, he can lose easily. So this matchup is more or less okayish to my taste, at least orc has a better winrate here than even against Elf.
- Dwarf vs Drake: winrate 66,67%
- Elf vs Orc: winrate 63,29%
- Undead vs Drake: winrate 61,54%
- Dwarf vs Orc: winrate 58,21%
Elf vs Orc, can't say much here, probably Orcs stay worse because of mediocre upgrades and lack of ranged (Elf's ranged is much more powerful).
Undead vs Drake is as controversial as in 1v1. This matchup is hard to play correctly for Drake, but not that one-sided. Although the map isn't big, which is bad for Drake, Drakes advancements are powerful. Cold damage of Undead is tremendous, but Infernos burn Undead a lot as well. So in their ToD both factions can deal devastating damage. So, it's an intense game, but easier for Undead, so 61,54%.
Dwarf vs Orc, well, this is more debatable than tough. Stats are a bit in favour for Dwarf, and some folks think that Dwarf has a clear upper hand here: his units far better than orcs. But other complain that orcish poison makes it quite hard for Dwarf to play (well, technically Dwarf can get poison as well if levels a thief up to the 3rd lvl, but no marksman and not that easy). If Dwarf doesn't handle poisioning of his units well, he can lose easily. So this matchup is more or less okayish to my taste, at least orc has a better winrate here than even against Elf.
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Re: Afterlife Statistics
Fine
Loyalist vs Orc turns out to be quite moderate, although some folks claimed Loy should be destroying orcs with chargers. Also suddenly some folks suffered from poison with Loy (although Loy has healers). Overall, stats more moderate than expected
Drake vs Loyalist is surprisingly in favour of Drake a bit. Most likely because Drake can deal with chargers using first-drake high-level Arbiters.
Not much can say about other matchups (really, what can you say about even matchups
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- Undead vs Dwarf: winrate 57,33%
- Loyalist vs Orc: winrate 57,14%
- Drake vs Loyalist: winrate 56,79%
- Loyalist vs Undead: winrate 56,04%
- Elf vs Loyalist: winrate 53,85%
- Undead vs Orc: winrate 51,90%
- Elf vs Drake: winrate 50,68%
Loyalist vs Orc turns out to be quite moderate, although some folks claimed Loy should be destroying orcs with chargers. Also suddenly some folks suffered from poison with Loy (although Loy has healers). Overall, stats more moderate than expected
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Drake vs Loyalist is surprisingly in favour of Drake a bit. Most likely because Drake can deal with chargers using first-drake high-level Arbiters.
Not much can say about other matchups (really, what can you say about even matchups
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Afterlife Statistics: P2 advantage
Another interesting thing is the P2 advantage. Stats show that P2 has a bit better chance of winning, for 1600+ it reaches 54%. The supposed reason is that AI makes its turn first against P1, so P1 may fall earlier. For lower ratings P2 advantage seems to be less visible, although on lower ratings all stats are more blurred anyway
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Re: Afterlife (with XP mod) Statistics
Well, it's not stats or statistic sharing, but general observations that explains why such win rates and why all matches even statistically.
1.- Dwarves are only somewhat more fragible to magic (fire, cold, arcane), but Dwarves have a STRONG counter for all mages or archer, and this is ULFSEKER / BERSERKER. This forces Opponent players to get dissadventageful situation of recruiting melee to counter the berserking units. Berserk also counters one of most nasty northerners units: the orcish assasin. A Single ulf and some luck can chunk an instant lv2 unit. Not counting that berserker has 4 melee strikes, which means it will benefit more from XP upgrades than average unit ...
2.- Steelclad being sincerely OP, they have insane HIGH HP and RESSISTANCES, there is nothing that can match a Steelclad or Dwarvish Lord in on at least 60% defense on hills or much worse the unstopable 70% defense ... at having TWO attack types, there is no fighter unit that can counter them (Loy Swordsmen or Loy calvary are the only exceptions) , but the problem of this ... is that Steelclad has even higher ressistances than both units (Well Loy calvary not, but has massive -20% pierce ressistances and incapable to get at least 50% terrain defense ...).
3.- The map-pool on ranked After-life in general favours the movement costs and not that much raw speed such as of Calvary. Also, you can spend very few XP on movement to make steelclad insanely faster than average unit, making a better use of 2 extra movement than almost any other unit spending 2 extra movement points. The maps are too small, and don't allow players to hide/block correctly for a too long period of 2 turns because of the insanely small maps ... meaning that in certain momment of game, opposing player will suffer of -25% combined of sick dwarf ressistances and being forced to hold positions in situations that in a normal match is a bad idea ...
4.- Combined of 3, villages and oasis in may situations are 4 up to 5 tiles of distance from the nearnest village/oasis, making poison a not a big deal at all. This reinforces point 3, topic of wrong and poor map which leads to unfair metas.
Other points and tiers are blatant ... but the main topic of this. There are MORE FAIR afterlife maps for dwarves and other defaultish factions ... problem is that the most popular but crappiest of maps is the one that is used to define player's ranked matches. There are bigger and more equilibrated after-life maps which are not used in ranked matches.
My biggest recommendation is that after a period of time, restart the season ranked with a more fair map, or even, mapping it to be more fair and less RNG dependant on what faction you get what will determinate in many situations if you will win or lose. Still, if you're skilled you will get higher rated and win matches that a less skilled player would lose, but Meta is strongly defined because of the crappy map pool in ranked match being the most notable problem of After-life ranked.
1.- Dwarves are only somewhat more fragible to magic (fire, cold, arcane), but Dwarves have a STRONG counter for all mages or archer, and this is ULFSEKER / BERSERKER. This forces Opponent players to get dissadventageful situation of recruiting melee to counter the berserking units. Berserk also counters one of most nasty northerners units: the orcish assasin. A Single ulf and some luck can chunk an instant lv2 unit. Not counting that berserker has 4 melee strikes, which means it will benefit more from XP upgrades than average unit ...
2.- Steelclad being sincerely OP, they have insane HIGH HP and RESSISTANCES, there is nothing that can match a Steelclad or Dwarvish Lord in on at least 60% defense on hills or much worse the unstopable 70% defense ... at having TWO attack types, there is no fighter unit that can counter them (Loy Swordsmen or Loy calvary are the only exceptions) , but the problem of this ... is that Steelclad has even higher ressistances than both units (Well Loy calvary not, but has massive -20% pierce ressistances and incapable to get at least 50% terrain defense ...).
3.- The map-pool on ranked After-life in general favours the movement costs and not that much raw speed such as of Calvary. Also, you can spend very few XP on movement to make steelclad insanely faster than average unit, making a better use of 2 extra movement than almost any other unit spending 2 extra movement points. The maps are too small, and don't allow players to hide/block correctly for a too long period of 2 turns because of the insanely small maps ... meaning that in certain momment of game, opposing player will suffer of -25% combined of sick dwarf ressistances and being forced to hold positions in situations that in a normal match is a bad idea ...
4.- Combined of 3, villages and oasis in may situations are 4 up to 5 tiles of distance from the nearnest village/oasis, making poison a not a big deal at all. This reinforces point 3, topic of wrong and poor map which leads to unfair metas.
Other points and tiers are blatant ... but the main topic of this. There are MORE FAIR afterlife maps for dwarves and other defaultish factions ... problem is that the most popular but crappiest of maps is the one that is used to define player's ranked matches. There are bigger and more equilibrated after-life maps which are not used in ranked matches.
My biggest recommendation is that after a period of time, restart the season ranked with a more fair map, or even, mapping it to be more fair and less RNG dependant on what faction you get what will determinate in many situations if you will win or lose. Still, if you're skilled you will get higher rated and win matches that a less skilled player would lose, but Meta is strongly defined because of the crappy map pool in ranked match being the most notable problem of After-life ranked.
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Re: Afterlife (with XP mod) Statistics
I would like to use bigger maps, I even tried one, but many folks didn't like big maps because games are longer on them.IPS wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2022, 4:04 am There are MORE FAIR afterlife maps for dwarves and other defaultish factions ... problem is that the most popular but crappiest of maps is the one that is used to define player's ranked matches. There are bigger and more equilibrated after-life maps which are not used in ranked matches.
But maybe the change is possible in the future, with restart or not
But actually I'm more inclined to change units than maps
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In case of trying another map rotation, you can make another bot that hosts a different map, I think that can be tried as a test and se how it works.
About rebalancing units for a fair afterlife match... well, quite requires much effort and force players to download an add-on era for more fair Afterlife matches. But as far, few units needs ressistances or stats adjustment, but many require so much XP for a full healing AMLA and sometimes even not worth it upgrading it to lv3 unless wanting the expected full heal (Like as of Elvish Ranger or both Lv2 drake clashers).
But most notable in far my like lots of afterlife matches, my main complaints about balance would be these:
- Steelclad batlantly OP in this map, should be -10% all physical ressitances and way less HP or more XP to lv3.
- Not worth getting lv3 of certain units like Red Mage, White Mage, Revenant because they demand an unfair amount of high XP that could be used in something more useful, even in XP mod.
- Ulf need to be 3 strikes unit instead (5-3 --> 9-3) to not make him that OP when cheesing with XP mod. More chances for rest of units to counter an over-buffed berserker.
- Undead being incapable to correctly kill Woses at time, player is forced to rush Lv3 Lich and avoid recruiting unnecesary XP that could feed enemy units againist rebels matchup.
- Revenant being worthless because Deathblade has 1 free extra strike and 1 movement, and just 8 HP less... XP too high to make Lv2 revenant into a Lv3 Death Knight , with worse ressult than farmed Deathblade XP mod. Revenant also being less weaker to impact/fire/arcane , stats that cannot be adquired by XP mod, could suit.
- Skeleton Archers being a complete garbage, they literally only exist to counter loyalist calvary lmao. Underpowered as hell, specially on Lv2 / Lv3.
- Drakes somewhat forced to spam fighters because Lv3 blade master is best option because of the "low" XP required to be obtained, unlike other units like Lv3 Clashers or Burners.
- Saurians too low in stats to be worth it, even if sometimes needed to counter stuff like Horsemen, still they have no chances againist Khanlgan Thunderers because of strong Blade melee. Agurs have Lv2 cap, whicch leads them to be XP waste if killing with them after they get lv2 because other units scales a way better with certain mounts of XP than giving extra damages to Lv2 Augurs.
- Loy calvary HP nerf doesn't help that much loy to deal with Knalga OPness, but quite irrelevant if Knalga gets fair nerfs. They work quite decently in many other matchups.
- Lv2 Loy Lancer is quite OP unit lol, but by experience it ends being more useful having 14-2 charge spanws over 12-3 because unit will rarely have a chance to 3rd strike until very late game.
There might be many other cases, but default is not the most balanced Era in Lv2 units XP management at all which in many situations, limits players options that are more poor and not that correct at all to counter certain matchup.
About rebalancing units for a fair afterlife match... well, quite requires much effort and force players to download an add-on era for more fair Afterlife matches. But as far, few units needs ressistances or stats adjustment, but many require so much XP for a full healing AMLA and sometimes even not worth it upgrading it to lv3 unless wanting the expected full heal (Like as of Elvish Ranger or both Lv2 drake clashers).
But most notable in far my like lots of afterlife matches, my main complaints about balance would be these:
- Steelclad batlantly OP in this map, should be -10% all physical ressitances and way less HP or more XP to lv3.
- Not worth getting lv3 of certain units like Red Mage, White Mage, Revenant because they demand an unfair amount of high XP that could be used in something more useful, even in XP mod.
- Ulf need to be 3 strikes unit instead (5-3 --> 9-3) to not make him that OP when cheesing with XP mod. More chances for rest of units to counter an over-buffed berserker.
- Undead being incapable to correctly kill Woses at time, player is forced to rush Lv3 Lich and avoid recruiting unnecesary XP that could feed enemy units againist rebels matchup.
- Revenant being worthless because Deathblade has 1 free extra strike and 1 movement, and just 8 HP less... XP too high to make Lv2 revenant into a Lv3 Death Knight , with worse ressult than farmed Deathblade XP mod. Revenant also being less weaker to impact/fire/arcane , stats that cannot be adquired by XP mod, could suit.
- Skeleton Archers being a complete garbage, they literally only exist to counter loyalist calvary lmao. Underpowered as hell, specially on Lv2 / Lv3.
- Drakes somewhat forced to spam fighters because Lv3 blade master is best option because of the "low" XP required to be obtained, unlike other units like Lv3 Clashers or Burners.
- Saurians too low in stats to be worth it, even if sometimes needed to counter stuff like Horsemen, still they have no chances againist Khanlgan Thunderers because of strong Blade melee. Agurs have Lv2 cap, whicch leads them to be XP waste if killing with them after they get lv2 because other units scales a way better with certain mounts of XP than giving extra damages to Lv2 Augurs.
- Loy calvary HP nerf doesn't help that much loy to deal with Knalga OPness, but quite irrelevant if Knalga gets fair nerfs. They work quite decently in many other matchups.
- Lv2 Loy Lancer is quite OP unit lol, but by experience it ends being more useful having 14-2 charge spanws over 12-3 because unit will rarely have a chance to 3rd strike until very late game.
There might be many other cases, but default is not the most balanced Era in Lv2 units XP management at all which in many situations, limits players options that are more poor and not that correct at all to counter certain matchup.
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Re: Afterlife (with XP mod) Statistics
For simple fixes not necessary, I already changed orcs, enabling the 3rd level for assassin and lowering xp threshold for orcish xbow, and it doesn't require to download the addon.
I tend to disagree with few of your complains though
Augurs lvl 2 cap means they can be led by the 3rd level leader. So I've seen people using the 3 oracles strategy, with pretty good results actually, the damage is quite-quite good, even dwarf needs to be cautious because oracles deal real damage to lords. Ofc you need several shield drakes, but overall augurs are viable. Skirmishers might be debatable, but they are skirmishers, which is quite insidious here
A brief note, there is no Death Knight advancement enabled here
To be honest, I can't be so sure about this, burners and clashers taken very often. One of the strats is to get the 3rd level leadership asap, and then keep you units in the 2nd level as long as possible (so you may have near advancement xp but use it with xp mod unless you think level-up became necessary). This way you benefit from leadership, provide less xp for the opponent, can level when you want to full-heal, which is a big deal, and pay less upkeep. And high xp req might be preferable here in fact, I doubt even that lowering xp req for orcish xbow was really that buff than nerf.
I agree though about Steelclad, I myself thought about -10% phys res for him and lord
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Re: Afterlife (with XP mod) Statistics
The wose/shaman combo is oppressive for undead. I would say nerfing the shaman/sorceress might be the best way to go about balancing it. Because the wose is helpful for the rebels vs dwarf matchup. Maybe give wose a greater arcane/cold weakness. I think the rebels winrate is lower than it should be because players seem to avoid using woses or using them correctly.
Northerners are just bad in general and only run even against undead. They need a bigger buff but in a way that still makes them distinctive. Maybe +8% hp or something like that? They lose late game because they don't do enough damage.
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Northerners are just bad in general and only run even against undead. They need a bigger buff but in a way that still makes them distinctive. Maybe +8% hp or something like that? They lose late game because they don't do enough damage.
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Re: Afterlife (with XP mod) Statistics
Thanks! Those stats btw are pretty old, now there are some 40 thousand games more, I need to get newer stats when time permits.bismitch wrote: ↑December 10th, 2022, 4:03 am The wose/shaman combo is oppressive for undead. I would say nerfing the shaman/sorceress might be the best way to go about balancing it. Because the wose is helpful for the rebels vs dwarf matchup. Maybe give wose a greater arcane/cold weakness. I think the rebels winrate is lower than it should be because players seem to avoid using woses or using them correctly.
Northerners are just bad in general and only run even against undead. They need a bigger buff but in a way that still makes them distinctive. Maybe +8% hp or something like that? They lose late game because they don't do enough damage.
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Wose/shaman combo is indeed very deadly. My thought was to buff arcane speel damage of Dark Adept line, at least +1, maybe +lvl. It should only affect Woses and Mermen (and need to check about trolls).
There was also an idea to lower phys res of Dwarvish Fighter line by 10%, should ease life of loyalists and elves
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Re: Afterlife Statistics: P2 advantage
I risk pointing out what seems to me an obvious reason that P2 has improved likelihood of winning:dwarftough wrote: ↑May 16th, 2022, 11:40 pm Another interesting thing is the P2 advantage. Stats show that P2 has a bit better chance of winning, for 1600+ it reaches 54%. The supposed reason is that AI makes its turn first against P1, so P1 may fall earlier. For lower ratings P2 advantage seems to be less visible, although on lower ratings all stats are more blurred anyway
P2 can see what P1 recruits and is able to react when recruiting units. This trend of benefit seems strongest during the first turn but probably provides marginal benefit to P2 for a couple more turns. To be clear, I believe the culprit here is that P2 can react to P1's hiring decisions beneficially.
I suspect that fog of war over the opposing player's side for 1-3 turns or so would substantially reduce this benefit. Would certainly be interesting anyway.
That being said, my win-rate is preeeetty low right now, so take that with a grain of salt! lol
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Re: Afterlife Statistics: P2 advantage
Counter-recruiting is definitely possible, but on the second thought I suppose it shouldn't be too much cause you do only 2-3 recruits, so the first player can then react on P2's reaction, he doesn't commit to a setup right from the spot. Also with moderately safe play you shouldn't fall from weak creeps even if they are counterpicked. And to the point where they start really damaging you would have a number of turns to react with another recruitsyereq wrote: ↑January 15th, 2023, 4:38 am I risk pointing out what seems to me an obvious reason that P2 has improved likelihood of winning:
P2 can see what P1 recruits and is able to react when recruiting units. This trend of benefit seems strongest during the first turn but probably provides marginal benefit to P2 for a couple more turns. To be clear, I believe the culprit here is that P2 can react to P1's hiring decisions beneficially.
I suspect that fog of war over the opposing player's side for 1-3 turns or so would substantially reduce this benefit. Would certainly be interesting anyway.
That being said, my win-rate is preeeetty low right now, so take that with a grain of salt! lol
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Re: Afterlife (with XP mod) Statistics
As we've reached the amazing milestone of 50.000 games played, time for new stats!
First, I want to present stats on the length of games. Afterlife games can't last too long, but what's the actual limits?
Here is the info about the number of games ending on turn N in a textual form and in two graphics. Data fetched on all games (reported and unreported), as it seems not to relevant whether or not a game was reported properly to consider its length.
The peak on turn 1 is ofc because some people wait for a new game and disconnect, technical reasons. More interesting is the behaviour of the graph in the middle (turn 13-28). I highlighted the turns where a new spawn appears with red dots under them. And we can see those spikes on the turns next after the spawn. So, turn 13 is a new spawn, then we have a spike on turn 14, most games end here. Then on turns 15 and 16 we see less games finished. Turn 16 is a new spawn. And then a spike on turn 17.
Seems pretty intuitive why it happens, on the turn next after a spawn a player can see if he withstood the first strike or not and resign if they didn't. If the first strike of a new spawn didn't crush the player, they most likely would fight until the next one possible ruin him or his opponent. And so on.
And about the limits. The longest afterlife ever played up to this moment took 43 turns. The second longest took 41 turns. That's very rare though xD. Except for those two outliers, all afterlifes finished before turn 38. If we ignore games that last less than 7 turns, half of the remaining games lasted 17 turns or less. 70% of games ended in 21 turns or less. 81% of games ended in 23 turns or less, 89% of games ended in 25 turns or less, 99% of games ended in 30 turns or less.
First, I want to present stats on the length of games. Afterlife games can't last too long, but what's the actual limits?
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1 : 3247
2 : 654
3 : 313
4 : 317
5 : 504
6 : 653
7 : 923
8 : 1028
9 : 1281
10 : 1428
11 : 1819
12 : 2255
13 : 2688
14 : 3095
15 : 2314
16 : 1961
17 : 2647
18 : 2235
19 : 1995
20 : 2809
21 : 2551
22 : 2070
23 : 2680
24 : 2153
25 : 1547
26 : 1630
27 : 1158
28 : 733
29 : 527
30 : 358
31 : 147
32 : 105
33 : 36
34 : 14
35 : 14
36 : 7
37 : 3
41 : 1
43 : 1
The peak on turn 1 is ofc because some people wait for a new game and disconnect, technical reasons. More interesting is the behaviour of the graph in the middle (turn 13-28). I highlighted the turns where a new spawn appears with red dots under them. And we can see those spikes on the turns next after the spawn. So, turn 13 is a new spawn, then we have a spike on turn 14, most games end here. Then on turns 15 and 16 we see less games finished. Turn 16 is a new spawn. And then a spike on turn 17.
Seems pretty intuitive why it happens, on the turn next after a spawn a player can see if he withstood the first strike or not and resign if they didn't. If the first strike of a new spawn didn't crush the player, they most likely would fight until the next one possible ruin him or his opponent. And so on.
And about the limits. The longest afterlife ever played up to this moment took 43 turns. The second longest took 41 turns. That's very rare though xD. Except for those two outliers, all afterlifes finished before turn 38. If we ignore games that last less than 7 turns, half of the remaining games lasted 17 turns or less. 70% of games ended in 21 turns or less. 81% of games ended in 23 turns or less, 89% of games ended in 25 turns or less, 99% of games ended in 30 turns or less.
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Re: Afterlife (with XP mod) Statistics
Now, I want to represent the new stats on winrates of factions. This time we had hopefully better data: I used only games of players with 1700+ rating, and only games that lasted at least 7 turns.
And below are the matchups sorted by the "balanceness", from the most balanced to less balanced:
Loyalists vs. Northerners : 52%
Undead vs. Northerners : 53%
Drakes vs. Loyalists : 56%
Knalgan Alliance vs. Northerners : 56%
Loyalists vs. Undead : 57%
Rebels vs. Loyalists : 60%
Rebels vs. Drakes : 61%
Undead vs. Knalgan Alliance : 62%
Undead vs. Drakes : 64%
Drakes vs. Northerners : 68%
Knalgan Alliance vs. Rebels : 69%
Rebels vs. Northerners : 70%
Knalgan Alliance vs. Drakes : 70%
Rebels vs. Undead : 75%
Knalgan Alliance vs. Loyalists : 81%
Now, some commentary and comparison with the previous results. The first question is whether the balance patch for Orcs (50 xp threshold for the xbow advancement and the 3rd lvl orcish assassin). The answer is... well, only a bit, less than I expected at list. Winrates of Orcs against Drakes and Dwarves didn't really change (+2% increase, I don't really consider it to be statistically significant). The performance against undead is also near the same, just 1% change. Against Loyalist Orc now feels much better, it was 42%, now it's 48% and it became the most balance matcup in the mode. But what is strange is that the winrate against Elves really dropped, from 36,7% to 30%. I'm not sure, it might be the balance patch worsening the deal (which seems not really obvious but we can't exclude that). Maybe it's the common knowledge on how to press Orcs with Elves increased. It might be the case, considering the better ratings of the data this time.
Dwarf vs Drake worsened from 66% to 70% in favour of Dwarf. It was always considered a grim matchup for Drake, and it seems the new stats only add more to this view. Interesting, Undead vs Drake is tough but still less, just 64%.
Elves vs Drake and Elves vs Loyalists don't seem to be equal as it was before, it's 60% for Elves (again, it may be another argument for improvement of play with Elves among 1700+ players).
The worst matchp stay really the same. What is interesting though is that Dwarf vs Loyalists became the worst with 81% for Dwarf, Dwarf vs Elves turned out to be second with 75% (the previous time it was 78% dwarf vs elf and 75% dwarf vs loy)
And below are the matchups sorted by the "balanceness", from the most balanced to less balanced:
Loyalists vs. Northerners : 52%
Undead vs. Northerners : 53%
Drakes vs. Loyalists : 56%
Knalgan Alliance vs. Northerners : 56%
Loyalists vs. Undead : 57%
Rebels vs. Loyalists : 60%
Rebels vs. Drakes : 61%
Undead vs. Knalgan Alliance : 62%
Undead vs. Drakes : 64%
Drakes vs. Northerners : 68%
Knalgan Alliance vs. Rebels : 69%
Rebels vs. Northerners : 70%
Knalgan Alliance vs. Drakes : 70%
Rebels vs. Undead : 75%
Knalgan Alliance vs. Loyalists : 81%
Now, some commentary and comparison with the previous results. The first question is whether the balance patch for Orcs (50 xp threshold for the xbow advancement and the 3rd lvl orcish assassin). The answer is... well, only a bit, less than I expected at list. Winrates of Orcs against Drakes and Dwarves didn't really change (+2% increase, I don't really consider it to be statistically significant). The performance against undead is also near the same, just 1% change. Against Loyalist Orc now feels much better, it was 42%, now it's 48% and it became the most balance matcup in the mode. But what is strange is that the winrate against Elves really dropped, from 36,7% to 30%. I'm not sure, it might be the balance patch worsening the deal (which seems not really obvious but we can't exclude that). Maybe it's the common knowledge on how to press Orcs with Elves increased. It might be the case, considering the better ratings of the data this time.
Dwarf vs Drake worsened from 66% to 70% in favour of Dwarf. It was always considered a grim matchup for Drake, and it seems the new stats only add more to this view. Interesting, Undead vs Drake is tough but still less, just 64%.
Elves vs Drake and Elves vs Loyalists don't seem to be equal as it was before, it's 60% for Elves (again, it may be another argument for improvement of play with Elves among 1700+ players).
The worst matchp stay really the same. What is interesting though is that Dwarf vs Loyalists became the worst with 81% for Dwarf, Dwarf vs Elves turned out to be second with 75% (the previous time it was 78% dwarf vs elf and 75% dwarf vs loy)
Co-founder and current maintainer of IsarFoundation, Afterlife Rated and overall Wesnoth Autohost Project
Developer and maintainer of my fork of World Conquest, Invincibles Conquest II
Developer and maintainer of my fork of World Conquest, Invincibles Conquest II