I just noticed that the board Hordes of Africa (http://www.wargear.net/boards/view/759) has been "retired" and does not show up in the boards list anymore. Though it seems that you can still create a game on the board from its page.

An equivalent board has come up Africa (http://www.wargear.net/boards/view/Africa/About), with completely new rankings, but for some reason the rating score has been carried over from the old board (though not the actual ratings).

This seems odd. Does anyone have know why this was done? Kjeld maybe?

Have noticed this once before too, on another board, but can't recall which it was.

IMO, at the least, a link to the old board should on the new one, and vice-versa. Ideally, board replacements should also be mentioned in the forums.

Pretty sure I remember Kjeld saying he was doing this, but I don't remember the details.

Personally this is a bit upsetting as it is one of the boards I have performed the best on. 

I would appreciate someone explaining what this helps to achieve?

Where did my points go?

Ozyman wrote:

Pretty sure I remember Kjeld saying he was doing this, but I don't remember the details.

Why don't you PM him and ask?

Mad Bomber wrote: Where did my points go?

To others. After the most recent finished games you now rank 11th on the board. The top-10 still have their points. 

Thanks Litotes! When I go to board rankings it only shows a few people with points....

Mad Bomber wrote: Thanks Litotes! When I go to board rankings it only shows a few people with points....

I see all of them. From BlackDog with 20 to genghis with 1, achieved with a board ranking of 1316 to your 1305.

Several of the top-10 improved this year so you probably fell out quite recently.

I can only see page 1, though. No idea who is ranked 31st.

@Mad Bomber: Your points were on the old board ( http://www.wargear.net/boards/view/759 ). But have now gone, because you are no longer in the top 10 there.

The new board (http://www.wargear.net/boards/view/Africa/About) has a new set of rankings, which is what you are probably looking at now. So, are now 20 people with points for that board!

To Litotes' point, yes the shift of the board has definitely messed up some rankings, and possible some stats too. If you go to page 2 of the rankings of the old board, you get the message:

Board 'Hordes of Africa' not found in database

It seems that the name of the board has been changed from Hordes of Africa, to just a number. But in some places, the original name is still trying to be accessed, which is messing things up.

Pratik wrote:

The new board (http://www.wargear.net/boards/view/Africa/About) has a new set of rankings, which is what you are probably looking at now. So, are now 20 people with points for that board!

 

15, strictly speaking, as only five players have gone above 1050 until now. But will likely be 20 soon.

I've seen ranking issues on other boards also, when changes are made.

To clarify, I wanted to change the name of the board to simply 'Africa', since I have long regretted the negative connotations of the original name. I didn't see a way to do this apart from retiring the old board and replacing it.

I apologize that I didn't consider the implications for rankings in making this decision, and in retrospect it would have been a good idea to check with Tom to see if he could just change the name of the board manually so as to preserve the rankings. At this point, he may still be able to resolve the mess manually, but it's a larger problem now... =(

"Hoards" is the game type though.. and its not unique to an African Map setting?

#EDIT: I appreciate all map makers efforts and bow down regarding your efforts giving me a unique and varied worlds to play in!

Aiken Drumn wrote:

"Hoards" is the game type though.. and its not unique to an African Map setting?

 

 

 

#EDIT: I appreciate all map makers efforts and bow down regarding your efforts giving me a unique and varied worlds to play in!

Exactly, so it's accurate in that sense, but can also mean something very different which I do not want associated with my board. I also have a Hordes of China and a Hordes of North America board, and will likely change those names as well (but I'll hold off until I figure out how to do that without screwing up the old rankings).

Kjeld wrote:

To clarify, I wanted to change the name of the board to simply 'Africa', since I have long regretted the negative connotations of the original name. I didn't see a way to do this apart from retiring the old board and replacing it.

I apologize that I didn't consider the implications for rankings in making this decision, and in retrospect it would have been a good idea to check with Tom to see if he could just change the name of the board manually so as to preserve the rankings. At this point, he may still be able to resolve the mess manually, but it's a larger problem now... =(

 

Sadly, I was introduced to the Hordes of Africa board in it's retirement tournament and was left wanting realizing it was being retired. Thank you for the explanation of the noble reason why, hopefully it could just be resolved by Tom intervening with simple name changes across  those boards and Africa would have the option for playing either version like other boards here  (Fantastica comes to mind). Imagine a solution making everyone happy for a change, can't imagine Tom not getting that done.

Kjeld wrote:

To clarify, I wanted to change the name of the board to simply 'Africa', since I have long regretted the negative connotations of the original name. 

Indeed, the simple name change would have been the best and easiest course of action. Tom has been able to rename a board or two of my maps without impact to ratings. Sadly, several years ago I tried retiring boards ostensibly to give them a rework and rename and found out the hard way about the impact to ratings. Hence, going the rename route for the last couple such changes.

Thingol wrote: Indeed, the simple name change would have been the best and easiest course of action. Tom has been able to rename a board or two of my maps without impact to ratings. Sadly, several years ago I tried retiring boards ostensibly to give them a rework and rename and found out the hard way about the impact to ratings. Hence, going the rename route for the last couple such changes.

Yeah, I always have to learn my lessons the hard way, it seems!

What is negative about hordes?

Just to clarify, not looking to start a fight about political correctness.

The definition seems neutral - (From Mirriam-Webster)

But notice the connotation in the example. The word is used most often to describe large groups of uneducated, mindless or destructive people/animals/zombies.

^^ Precisely. Thanks, Amidon!