I see that some expertise and effort has been applied to find a ranking of the labels. But we still don't know a lot of things:
- Some boundaries for what influence share will result in what label. Safalra said it was possible to derive that, but his page doesn't have that yet.
- An estimate of what it costs to banject, eject and password. We know it's "about half" for banjection, but perhaps we can get a more precise number such as "45%" or "60%" of the target's influence.
And for the holy grail:
- A formula for the actual growth of influence, as influenced by the input factors (which appear to be residence time, endorsements received, and possibly the influence you already have). My pet hypothesis (which is about as well-founded as a tower of turtles): Influence growth at daily update = A + B * endos if inside the region, or -C if outside, where A, B and C are constants. It's just a wild guess, of course.
Did anyone ever launch a coordinated project for investigating this? If not, is anyone interested in doing so? The mods don't appear to discourage it. They also won't confirm it - but Newton didn't get a divine "Yes, that's how it works" for his theory of gravity, and he coped.
Anyone with some background in statistics or at least mathematics and a bit of natural curiosity? We could experiment a bit with shuffling some nations around in small regions!