Hi Email below might help to explain some of the Solara confusion
Cheers JC The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion.Joanne Chua Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: Esper Labs Support <supp...@esperlabs.com> > Date: 27 August 2013 5:34:29 ACST > To: Joanne Chua <shuang.an...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Solara Support RRRRRReqqquest for explaination > > Hi Joanne, > > When comparing costs between players, what you're seeing is our own version > of A/B testing. Essentially what we're doing is running experiments where > some small subset of our players get a different set of numbers for structure > availability, structure cost, training cost, etc. Then, looking at those > users' data, we try to figure out if those different sets of numbers in > general perform better: the players get farther, they keep playing longer, > etc. If the small set of users ends up having better results than the main > group, then we'll gradually transition the main group to be using those > different numbers. This is pretty similar to what companies like > Facebook/Google/Amazon do as well for things like user interface changes: > they try them out on a small group before setting them up for everyone. > > Each league in the arena spans a 5 level gap. For example, 11-15, 16-20, > 21-25, etc all the way up to 46-50. Players join the league based on their > castle level, but they might level up during the week while already being in > the league. Within a single level band, we split the leagues into groups of > 100 players, so you're always competing with a relatively small group of > players. I hope this helps explain it. > > Sincerely, > Eric > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
