Guild Wars 2

Hah, I’ve noticed this as well. In addition to the Skrittsburgh references, you can also find some references in Rata Sum. You can find Frick Hall (from Henry Clay Frick, chairman of Carnegie Steel who has many things named after him in Pittsburgh like Frick park) and Skibo Hall (Andrew Carnegie’s residence, a few buildings that are named after this can be found at CMU). I would guess one of the developers attended Carnegie Mellon… :-)

daydream.2938:

Gandarel.5091:

daydream.2938:

Im curious, are the leaderboards going to be a top 100 display?

how comprehensive will they be?

That’s a toplist not a leaderboard. It should display everyone.

everyone? what if someones only played 1 spvp tourney in the last month.

Or what if some guy did 10 matchs with premades during early afternoon, and is 10 and 0. He might be high up the leaderboards, without it really being representative.

There are plenty of existing rating algorithms that take sample size (or in this case games played) into account. One popular one is the Bayesian Average method:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_average

For example, IMDB uses a similiar method to calculate their top 250 ranked movies. They incorporate a minimum number of votes as 25,000 in order to smooth the data. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database#Ranking_.28IMDb_Top_250.29).

I am confident that Anet would use some method in order to account for players with low games played.

Lafiel.9372:

Please don’t tell me the guild jumping puzzle was the amazing piece of work you were working on!! I was hoping for something more.. soloable.

I’d also like to know this. Is this JP coming out in a future patch or was it related to one of the Guild Puzzles?