kehm, instead of absolute point jump, i think average pts jump is a better measure......

getting 200 pts in 5 games is of course better than in 50 games.....

i had +616 yesterday.

Going to also agree with phoneguy here and say that anything that encourages more people to play for first would be nice. Tired of seeing "Why would I play for first when first place already guaranteed that I could have second?" People think that I'm the moron for not allying with first to accept the 'gift' of second place.

Not going to go into an anti-allying with first philosophy here, but I'd like to see something like +10 points for first, -1 point for every other place, and then factoring in domination for the rest. This rewards you for playing well and taking over a lot of the board. Reflect your second-place finish (if it was somewhat earned) in dominance points, but don't reward people who frequently ally with the strongest on the board.

Ryan, if you want to make your game as addictive as possible, you should award more points. Seriously, back at the old system, it was a lot eaiser to get points, making me want more and more. Me and my family competed. But now, it seems alot harder to earn and so much easier to lose. So we all have 0 diamonds. We hardly ever play now. Curving the awarding system will definetly make the game alot more fun for us, because all we care is points!! :)

Ryan, anything you can do to keep cumulative records will keep people interested.

Things like, total wins all time. Total losses all time. Even fun things, like number of times rolling 8 ones.

Case's Ladder uses stats and rankings like these and it keeps people coming back to improve on their records.

When records are wiped, it's like starting over - something people don't like.

Here are some more examples of fun stats to have permanently:

Top Fifty (etc)
Skill Rating (Overall)
Top Win % (Overall)
Skill Rating (10-49 games)
Skill Rating (50-499 games)
Highest Skill Rating Attained
Longest Winning Streak
Most Wins
Most Losses
Most games
Hot Players
Cold Players
Rank Mongers (10 to 499 games)
Top Upmatch Givers
Challenges Issued
Challenges Received
Challenges Won
Challenges Lost
Formal Challenge Win %
Tourney Wins
Tourney Losses
Tourneys Won
Tourney Win %
Tourney Win % (10 - 49 games)
Tourney Win % (50 - 499 games)
Most Wins (Week)
Win Streak (Week)
Most Losses (Week)
All Time Wins (Week)
All Time Losses (Week)
Most Wins
Win Streak (Month)
Most Losses (Month)
All Time Wins (Month)
All Time Losses (Month)

etc, etc, these would be ongoing stats that players could browse though, compare, and look forward to improving - there's just about something for everyone in there...

Ryan if You can make live 2 different versions of kdice then I would like to play previous version with ELO and so on. Current version differs from that very much. I know many people who love previous vesion and dont love current one. This new version is nor like fighting. It's much more like poker. This is Poker Dice, PDice :)

Hmm seems like you have way more work then time on your hands, I suggest getting a second developer that knows swing or can help in doing the stats parts

Overall rank.

I would like to see a table of percentage of finishes by start order and by color.

People are always saying that first and last person to start are at a disadvantage...

It would be interesting to see the results of such a table.

how about list all the forum post a player initiated or responded to in the player's profile?