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About games submitted prior to and after the release of the expansion pack. The data below includes games from all players in the top 25 empires and any unaffiliated top 100 players.

Games submitted in the 18 days prior to the release of the x-pack (total of 579 games):
+-----------------+---------------+----------------------+
| mv_game_version | mv_difficulty | COUNT(mv_difficulty) |
+-----------------+---------------+----------------------+
| (1.000000) | N/A | 2 |
| (1.035000) | Simple | 2 |
| (1.050000) | Anomalous | 2 |
| (1.050000) | Beginner | 66 |
| (1.050000) | Cakewalk | 26 |
| (1.050000) | Challenging | 38 |
| (1.050000) | Crippling | 45 |
| (1.050000) | Easy | 10 |
| (1.050000) | Masochistic | 17 |
| (1.050000) | Normal | 92 |
| (1.050000) | Painful | 73 |
| (1.050000) | Simple | 48 |
| (1.050000) | Suicidal | 1 |
| (1.050000) | Tough | 27 |
| (1.091000) | Challenging | 2 |
| (1.091000) | Masochistic | 1 |
| (1.091000) | Normal | 1 |
| (1.091000) | Painful | 5 |
| (1.092000) | Anomalous | 1 |
| (1.092000) | Beginner | 6 |
| (1.092000) | Cakewalk | 4 |
| (1.092000) | Challenging | 9 |
| (1.092000) | Crippling | 26 |
| (1.092000) | Masochistic | 34 |
| (1.092000) | Normal | 10 |
| (1.092000) | Painful | 26 |
| (1.092000) | Simple | 3 |
| (1.092000) | Tough | 2 |
+-----------------+---------------+----------------------+


Games submitted since the release of the expansion pack (total of 738 games):
+-----------------+---------------+----------------------+
| mv_game_version | mv_difficulty | COUNT(mv_difficulty) |
+-----------------+---------------+----------------------+
| (1.012000) | Beginner | 1 |
| (1.012000) | Simple | 1 |
| (1.035000) | Simple | 2 |
| (1.050000) | Beginner | 10 |
| (1.050000) | Cakewalk | 13 |
| (1.050000) | Challenging | 10 |
| (1.050000) | Crippling | 18 |
| (1.050000) | Easy | 1 |
| (1.050000) | Masochistic | 3 |
| (1.050000) | Normal | 8 |
| (1.050000) | Painful | 6 |
| (1.050000) | Simpel | 1 |
| (1.050000) | Simple | 5 |
| (1.050000) | Suicidal | 1 |
| (1.050000) | Tough | 3 |
| (1.050000) | Weichei | 2 |
| (1.091000) | Tough | 1 |
| (1.092000) | Crippling | 2 |
| (1.092000) | Masochistic | 1 |
| (1.092000) | Normal | 1 |
| (1.100000) | Beginner | 58 |
| (1.100000) | Cakewalk | 15 |
| (1.100000) | Challenging | 76 |
| (1.100000) | Crippling | 72 |
| (1.100000) | Easy | 10 |
| (1.100000) | Masochistic | 196 |
| (1.100000) | Normal | 81 |
| (1.100000) | Painful | 78 |
| (1.100000) | Simple | 41 |
| (1.100000) | Tough | 21 |
+-----------------+---------------+----------------------+


~SDC~