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 — 16% Chess, 12% Belote, 12% Tavli, 9% Dominos, 9% Tetrominoes, 9% Scorched, 9% Xeri, 9% Checkers, 8% Agonia, and 7% RPS.

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 +1 Δ, and in 4-player Agonia second place mints +3 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	Variation	Pot
Xeri	2 players	14
	2v2 (each winner)	11
	Sweep	20 / 14
Agonia	2 players	12
	3 players	13
	4 players	16
	4 players, 2nd place	+3
Tavli	3-point	12
	5-point	17
	7-point	22
Checkers		13
Chess	Standard	16
	Blitz	11
	Bullet	8
Dominos	Draw · 2 players	12
	Block · 2 players	12
	Block · 2v2 (each winner)	14
	All Fives · 2 players	15
Tetrominoes	All modes	12
Belote	Belote Classic · 2v2	14
Belote	Belote Coinche · 2v2	16
Scorched Stadion	2–10 tanks	10 – 26
RPS	Best of 3	2
	Best of 5	3
	Best of 7	4

Winning team also banks +1 Δ per xeri, capped at +5.

Scorched pays +2 more for every tank past the first two, so a full ten-tank field carries 26 Δ.

Belote pots are −2 at target 500 and +2 at 2000.

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 five rated matches in a game count as placement: pots are ×1.1 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 +20 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	80
(3) Helot	Εἵλως	140
(4) Thete	Θής	210
(5) Hoplite	Ὁπλίτης	300
(6) Phalanx	Φάλαγξ	420
(7) Agonistes	Ἀγωνιστής	540
(8) Isthmionikes	Ἰσθμιονίκης	690
(9) Nemeonikes	Νεμεονίκης	870
(10) Pythionikes	Πυθιονίκης	1080
(11) Olympionikes	Ὀλυμπιονίκης	1350
(12) Taxiarch	Ταξίαρχος	1680
(13) Hipparch	Ἵππαρχος	2070
(14) Navarch	Ναύαρχος	2520
(15) Strategos	Στρατηγός	3080
(16) Polemarch	Πολέμαρχος	3750
(17) Archon	Ἄρχων	4580
(18) Hero of the Polis	Ἥρως τῆς Πόλεως	5620
(19) Demigod	Ἡμίθεος	6900
(20) Olympian	Ὀλύμπιος	8400

Rankings

Leaderboards rank the Stadio-wide wallet or a single game, worldwide or filtered by country, breaking ties on peak wallet.

Rankings

Future 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.