The currency of the arena
Drachmas
Drachmas (Δ) are earned and lost in rated matches. There is no staking, no buy-in, or cash-out. Every Drachma is won at the table and tracked per game and Stadio-wide.
What Drachmas are
Every finished match between a human player impacts your rating (which affect game odds), and your wallet (the Drachmas count). Wallets are kept per game, and the Stadio-wide balance is a weighted view of the live games — 34% Xeri, 28% Agonia, 22% Tavli, and 16% Checkers.
How you earn
Winning a rated match pays a pot shaped by the odds. Beat a favourite and you collect more; a sweep pays the biggest Xeri pot of all. Every win mints +3 Δ, and in 4-player Agonia second place mints +8 Δ.
How you lose
Losing costs three quarters of what the winner earned from the same pot. A wallet never drops below zero. If it cannot cover the loss, it empties and the rest is forgiven. Only your rating may still fall.
Rated matches
A rated unit is a finished match: a whole Xeri game, an Agonia match to its point limit, a single hand when Agonia plays to a single hand, or a whole Tavli match to its race target. Conceding settles normally.
Unrated matches
Bots and system seats are never rated. A match is also unrated when it lasts under 30 seconds, when Xeri sees fewer than eight human plays, or when a pair has already played eight rated matches against each other in 24 hours. Unrated matches still count as games — they just do not move Drachmas or ratings.
Pots by game
| Match | Pot |
|---|---|
| Xeri · 2 players | 24 |
| Xeri · 2v2 (each winner) | 18 |
| Xeri · sweep | 32 / 24 |
| Agonia · 2 players | 20 |
| Agonia · 3 players | 22 |
| Agonia · 4 players | 26 |
| Agonia · 4 players, 2nd place | +8 |
| Tavli · 2 players | 3-point 20 · 5-point 28 · 7-point 36. |
| Checkers · 2 players | Pot 22. |
Winning team also banks +1 Δ per xeri, capped at +5.
Streaks and placement
Three straight wins pay ×1.1 on the base pot, five pay ×1.2 and eight pay ×1.3, capped there. A loss, concede or tie resets the streak. Your first eight rated matches in a game count as placement: pots are ×1.25 and losses cost nothing while your rating still settles.
The floor and the first step
Wallets never go negative. Ties mint +1 Δ to every player with no rating change. Your first rated match in each game also grants +50 Δ.
Titles
Your wallet climbs a twenty-step ladder, from Xenos to Olympian. The same thresholds title each game wallet and the combined Stadio wallet.
| Title | Greek | Δ from |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Xenos | Ξένος | 0 |
| (2) Metoikos | Μέτοικος | 50 |
| (3) Helot | Εἵλως | 90 |
| (4) Thete | Θής | 140 |
| (5) Hoplite | Ὁπλίτης | 200 |
| (6) Phalanx | Φάλαγξ | 280 |
| (7) Agonistes | Ἀγωνιστής | 360 |
| (8) Isthmionikes | Ἰσθμιονίκης | 460 |
| (9) Nemeonikes | Νεμεονίκης | 580 |
| (10) Pythionikes | Πυθιονίκης | 720 |
| (11) Olympionikes | Ὀλυμπιονίκης | 900 |
| (12) Taxiarch | Ταξίαρχος | 1120 |
| (13) Hipparch | Ἵππαρχος | 1380 |
| (14) Navarch | Ναύαρχος | 1680 |
| (15) Strategos | Στρατηγός | 2050 |
| (16) Polemarch | Πολέμαρχος | 2500 |
| (17) Archon | Ἄρχων | 3050 |
| (18) Hero of the Polis | Ἥρως τῆς Πόλεως | 3750 |
| (19) Demigod | Ἡμίθεος | 4600 |
| (20) Olympian | Ὀλύμπιος | 5600 |
Rankings
Leaderboards rank the Stadio-wide wallet or a single game, worldwide or filtered by country, breaking ties on peak wallet.
RankingsFuture seasons
Future seasons will soften the ladder with a new score of 0.35 × old + 65, and Anax, the seasonal crown, will be awarded then. Neither is active yet.