1 IronThrone Report.md

The Iron Throne - Monthly Report January 2017

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Greetings and welcome to the first in what I hope are a series of monthly reports on the status of The Iron Throne (which some of you know as throneteki).

In January 2017 a total of 4959 games were played. That's roughly 6 per hour, which is pretty awesome. Thanks for playing!

We currently stand at 1592 registered accounts, which frankly blows my mind. When I start this project I never thought it would take off as much as it did. I'm really greatful for the support, kind words and assistance that you the community have provided.

Speaking of which, I'd like to thank the contributors to the site that we've had so far:

Ystros, Cavnak, DukeTax

Ystros in particular has put a huge amount of effort into making cards easier to implement (Which has caused some bugs along the way, sorry for those), and documenting the process. It's now easier than ever to inplement new cards. See here for guidance: Card Documentation

Ninja edit:

I forgot to mention, from the stats it would seem that a lot of people leave games without completing them. If you like the stats and want them to be more accurate, please either finish your games through, or make use of the concede button, thanks!

Statistics

I have collated some stats for the month of Jan and would like to share them with you. Firstly,

The winners:

Name	Number of wins
cameronhawkins	100
tphilly72186	62
Rey	51
LesSavyFan	51
Draz	50
Sotiris	48
gordianblade	48
dunkha	47
danilonilo75	46
slevin38	44
staticgriffin	43
scar	38
shenful	38
MnnX86	37
Syleener	33
jodahae	32
DukeTax	31
MaximusB	29
Wintermute	29
Jeaux	29

The losers:

Name	Number of losses
jodahae	342
Rey	86
staticgriffin	85
Ozymandias98	79
junik	57
scar	56
dunkha	52
Draz	50
danilonilo75	50
slevin38	45
ZKMD	41
tphilly72186	41
LesSavyFan	38
cameronhawkins	38
gordianblade	37
Sotiris	34
vvvolya	34
Rors	33
shenful	33
KorvenLannister	33

Faction Representation

Name	Number of Games
House Lannister	1670
House Tyrell	1336
House Stark	1256
House Greyjoy	1085
House Baratheon	1074
House Targaryen	974
House Martell	834
The Night's Watch	813

Agenda Representation

Name	Number of Games
Fealty	2196
"The Rains of Castamere"	1625
Banner of the Kraken	884
The Lord of the Crossing	720
Kings of Summer	687
Banner of the Watch	578
Banner of the Wolf	553
Kings of Winter	427
Banner of the Stag	412
Banner of the Sun	369
Banner of the Lion	321
Banner of the Rose	210
No agenda	36
Banner of the Dragon	32

Faction Winners

Name	Number of Games
House Lannister	534
House Tyrell	419
House Greyjoy	384
House Baratheon	360
House Stark	328
House Targaryen	309
House Martell	259
The Night's Watch	220

Hope you enjoyed the first monthly report, see you next month!

Any questions, suggestions on what to include next month or comments, find me on Twitter or on the site itself.

2 IronThrone Report Feb.md

The Iron Throne - Monthly Report February 2017

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Welcome to the Throneteki/Iron Throne report for February. This has been a rather exceptional month for growth for the site which has been great, but also provided some challenges.

Throughout February, 13230 games were played. This is incredible growth over last month's figure. Current number of registered users is 2419, which means we've almost added 1000 users in the last month. Wowzers is all I have to say to that.

This brings me nicely on to my next point: performance of the site. The site has been trundling along on a spare VPS that I host a couple of other things on and not too much consideration has been given to performance. It was always a "I'll worry about that later" thing. Well, with the recent explosion in usage of the site, some of you have probably noticed in peak times, when the game count hits around 17-18, the games start to noticeably lag. Later has become "now", in a big way. For the last couple of weeks I've been working on changes to the site that will allow me to offload some of the work of processing games to other nodes hosted both on the same server (1 per CPU) and to other servers. This work is almost complete and will be rolled out fairly soon. When it goes live, the lag should decrease dramatically. At the same time, I've already commissioned a dedicated higher spec VPS to run the game servers on. A nice side effect of the new code is I'll be able to turn off game servers to new connections so that I can let them empty on their own and deploy new code to them and restart them without any interruptions to games.

We have had a couple of new contributors this month. 3ana is responsible for the slight game board redesign that you may have noticed. khyinn has also contributed some client side changes and both Maester Belza and Zack have contributed plenty in terms of bug fixes and new card implementations. Welcome aboard and thanks for the contributions!

Speaking of helping out, since I started this I have been asked a few times about donations. I've always been pretty clear that I did this for fun and was happy to fund it myself. But there was some feeling that people would like to help out in ways other than coding or testing, so I put up some information about this on the site's About Page. I wont say how much has been raised so far, as the number of donators is relatively few and I don't have their permission to release how much they donated and the low sample size might make it possible to guess, but I would like to thank (in no particular order):

• Jonas Solberg(JonasSolberg)
• Graham Linehan(glinner)
• Amrtaka

There is one other, but I have yet to seek their permission to reveal their name, so I will include them in next month assuming permission is forthcoming!

On to the bit most of you are here for...

Statistics

First, let me just say that I have been relatively disappointed by a (relatively small) number of incidents of unfriendly behavior, possibly related to these stats. Namely leaving without conceding or aborting games that aren't going a player's way. I'm not going to tell people how to use the site, but I would say that I would like these stats (for the moment at least) to be informational only and would prefer people not to make this a super competitive affair.

Secondly, and probably more importantly, unfortunately, due to a bug, this months stats are going to be very basic. I'm sorry for this and that it wasn't picked up sooner, but it's now fixed and will be reporting correctly going forwards. All that we have is the raw number of game wins:

Name	Number of Wins
cameronhawkins	132
Suchy	97
Sassanid	90
Syleener	85
slevin38	78
don	77
gumek	77
Draz	75
TheTank	75
Euphius	72
qdemo	68
Seraphael	67
danilonilo75	64
Mercutio	63
JendaD	62
Neo1	61
REELTUFF	59
Lolitoman	59
diplo	58
staticgriffin	57
Stenb	55

3 IronThrone Report Mar.md

The Iron Throne - Monthly Report March 2017

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Welcome to the Throneteki/Iron Throne report for March. Firstly let me apologise for how late this report has been (it's almost time for Aprils!), life has been very busy the last couple of months, what with planning a wedding, work and other usual life stuff. The good news is I've not automated the stats collection so next time around should be a bit easier.

So, those of you who regularly play will have noticed that March was a bit of a tough month for the site. I deployed new code that allows game load to be split among different processes which can be hosted on the same, or other machines. It was complex code that is fairly difficult to extensively test in a development environment so it's fairly safe to say the release was not smooth. Server crashes, unstable games and inability to connect were rampant. I want to apologise for this, but I took the decision to keep the code live and get all of the issues worked out. I think it was the right call as now we're in a situation where the servers are mostly stable and the peak time lag is all but gone. Recently, I tracked down an issue where the server responsible for running the lobby would freak out and have very spikey memory and CPU usage. After doing a bit of research and experimentation, I discovered that there is an option in socket.io, perMessageDeflate. This default to on, and apparently the code is very buggy, spikes the hell out of the CPU and leaks memory. So turning this off, the performance and reliability of the lobby server has increased exponentially. There is still a remaining issue where some of you are unable to connect to 'node 1' as it is called internally. This runs on port 80 but uses SSL. This confuses/upsets some proxies/browsers/networks. This shouldn't cause a problem so isn't really my fault, but I'm looking at ways to work around it.

Moving on to the fun stuff: in march, 9316 games were played. That's a little lower than last month, but there was a bug in the stats and we've had all the instability due to the new code rollout so I'm not surprised by this.

Work is proceeding on getting existing cards implemented and keeping on top of the new packs that are coming out. There is a good chunk of cards from the NW box that have implementations, thanks in large part to the efforts of DukeTax, single handedly working through a load of them.

Donations

I promised to keep you up to speed with donations and what I'm doing with the money received. In March the following people donated(and agreed I could share their details):

• pietroia
• tornadical
• Moreau Thomas(Diplo)
• RDude
• Purchy

Thank you so much to all of you. It means a lot that people feel like they want to contribute.

Up till the end of March, we've raised £220 so far. The servers currently cost roughly £45/month, so that covers them for about 4 months or so. Due to lack of time and general laziness I'm currently still paying for it myself, but I will fix that soon and use the funds donated so far. If I've missed you from this list, it's not on purpose, it's either because you donated in April, or I haven't asked your permission to include you yet, or I'm just disorganised, so apologies, but do let me know and i'll fix it for next month.

For further information on donating, please see the about page of the site.

Statistics

Please be aware that this month is a little skewed due to the bug mentioned last month, and also the instability caused by the code rollout. With that said, the general trends shown do seem to be quite accurate.

Top 10

Name	Number of wins
staticgriffin	108
Rein	102
cameronhawkins	94
powerguy	91
gordianblade	81
shenful	81
Zaramis	79
Scratchy	67
amp	66
robertstark	61

Top 10 by winrate

Name	Number of wins	Number of losses	Win Rate
gordianblade	81	27	75%
Rein	102	42	71%
Scratchy	67	31	68%
shenful	81	41	66%
robertstark	61	31	66%
staticgriffin	108	59	65%
cameronhawkins	94	55	63%
Zaramis	79	46	63%
powerguy	91	61	60%
amp	66	59	53%

Faction win rates

Faction	Number of wins	Number of losses	Win Rate
House Targaryen	1208	1033	54%
House Tyrell	1253	1070	54%
House Baratheon	811	735	52%
House Greyjoy	774	742	51%
House Lannister	1052	1058	50%
The Night's Watch	635	761	45%
House Stark	644	806	44%
House Martell	589	761	44%

Faction/Agenda combination win rates (top 10)

Faction/Agenda	Number of wins	Number of losses	Win Rate
House Baratheon / Fealty	392	290	57%
House Tyrell / Banner of the Wolf	441	343	56%
House Tyrell / Alliance	225	177	56%
The Night's Watch / Fealty	193	149	56%
House Targaryen / Fealty	497	407	55%
House Greyjoy / Fealty	214	183	54%
House Lannister / "The Rains of Castamere"	468	463	50%
House Greyjoy / Kings of Winter	275	270	50%
House Stark / Fealty	394	417	49%
The Night's Watch / Kings of Winter	180	244	42%

Additionally, there were 668 single player games and 1682 games without a winner which were not counted as part of the stats.

That's all for this month, happy thronesing!

4 IronThrone Report Apr.md

The Iron Throne - Monthly Report April 2017

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Welcome to the Throneteki/Iron Throne report for April. As March's report mentioned, April was a pretty rough and busy month for me. But it was a pretty good month for the site. I found and fixed two of the long running bugs on the site that were causing stability issues. One was in the lobby server, and meant that it kept churning CPU and memory and eventually becoming unstable and losing connection to the db and throwing away games and users. I eventually managed to track down the issue and fix it. Pictures are better than words so here's a couple:

As can be seen from these server graphs, the cpu and memory churn has now stopped and the lobby server is super stable.

There was also a bug in the game server that caused it to get into a 100% CPU loop from time to time. I also spent a lot of time tracking this down and managed to find and fix a cause, and ystros also found a couple of edge cases and fixed those too.

Technically this didn't happen in April but I thought I'd use this report to go into the feature in a little more detail. You've probably noticed that action windows are now configurable, meaning if you (or your opponent) have them selected, then they will trigger. If you don't, they won't. This is to allow maximum flexibility and for those that rarely use all of the windows to not get spammed by prompts all of the time, and those that want a maximum rules-correct experience can have all the windows they want. The menu for them can be found by clicking under the green triangle where the prompts that tell you what phase you're in resides. These settings apply only for the game that you're in. However, there is another new feature: user profiles. This page allows you to change your email address, password and some other stuff. Some of the other stuff is the default action windows you want to enable in all games. If you set them in here, those defaults will be used for every game you create.

Donations

I have been too busy/lazy to seek permission to publish donators this month, so they'll be included next month.

We did however recieve another £26 in donations in April, which will be put towards paying for the servers. Thank you!

For further information on donating, please see the about page of the site.

Statistics

This month the stats are back to normal as all of the bugs have been squished. A total of 19578 games were played in April. This is a record amount and truely crazy! Thanks to everyone for using the site.

Top 10

Name	Number of wins
Rein	289
staticgriffin	174
Scratchy	161
Krykt	125
Moloch	123
Contortore	117
street1314	116
shenful	115
Zaramis	108
robertstark	106

Top 10 by winrate

Name	Number of wins	Number of losses	Win Rate
shenful	115	23	83%
staticgriffin	174	64	73%
Rein	289	114	72%
robertstark	106	45	70%
Scratchy	161	74	69%
Zaramis	108	49	69%
Krykt	125	96	57%
Contortore	117	125	48%
Moloch	123	136	47%
street1314	116	151	43%

Faction win rates

Faction	Number of wins	Number of losses	Win Rate
House Targaryen	3159	2527	56%
House Tyrell	2550	2064	55%
House Baratheon	1372	1287	52%
House Greyjoy	2034	1902	52%
House Lannister	2032	2060	50%
House Martell	1257	1539	45%
House Stark	1356	1674	45%
The Night's Watch	2391	3098	44%

Faction/Agenda combination win rates

Faction/Agenda	Number of wins	Number of losses	Win Rate
House Tyrell / The Lord of the Crossing	495	278	64%
House Targaryen / Fealty	1269	894	59%
House Tyrell / Banner of the Wolf	469	355	57%
House Baratheon / Fealty	504	426	54%
House Greyjoy / Fealty	586	525	53%
House Lannister / "The Rains of Castamere"	1071	971	52%
House Greyjoy / Kings of Winter	467	493	49%
The Night's Watch / Fealty	613	669	48%
House Stark / Fealty	839	956	47%
The Night's Watch / Kings of Winter	663	918	42%

Additionally, there were 726 single player games and 2701 games without a winner which were not counted as part of the stats.

That's all for this month, happy thronesing!

5 IronThrone Report May.md

The Iron Throne - Monthly Report May 2017

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Since I'm super late with this one, you can just have the stats for May:

Statistics

30888 Were played in May. Another records and great growth. Once again, thanks for using the site!

Due to the general undesirable behaviour in part because of me tracking these stats, I've decided to only release faction related ones. Here they are:

Faction win rates

Faction	Number of wins	Number of losses	Win Rate
House Targaryen	4938	4075	55%
House Tyrell	3789	3413	53%
House Greyjoy	3566	3456	51%
House Lannister	3415	3490	49%
House Baratheon	2431	2493	49%
The Night's Watch	2836	3060	48%
House Stark	2539	2986	46%
House Martell	2141	2682	44%

Faction/Agenda combination win rates

Faction/Agenda	Number of wins	Number of losses	Win Rate
House Targaryen / Banner of the Kraken	595	330	64%
House Targaryen / Fealty	2755	2157	56%
The Night's Watch / Fealty	791	675	54%
House Lannister / "The Rains of Castamere"	1829	1647	53%
House Tyrell / The Lord of the Crossing	827	742	53%
House Baratheon / Fealty	966	901	52%
House Greyjoy / Fealty	892	819	52%
House Greyjoy / Kings of Winter	596	642	48%
House Stark / Fealty	1675	1868	47%
The Night's Watch / Kings of Winter	701	862	45%

Additionally, there were 1132 single player games and 4101 games without a winner which were not counted as part of the stats.