Drake Lyons
Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.09.22 09:37:00 -
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Zekain Kade wrote:The high KD players will still be at the top. You can go ahead and use a skirmish game for an example.
Okay, so your hypothesis is that players with a high KD ratio will dominate the WP leader boards. And a conjecture from there is that the devs should just leave it as a KD leader board since the same players - and only the same players - will be featured. From which we can conclude you think KD is a superior and more meaningful statistic.
Zekain Kade wrote:Player A isn't a great slayer, but is attempting to hack the objective
Player B is a great slayer , and is oging around killing enemies.
Player A manages to hack the objective, and queue it for the side flip. He eventually caps it, and gains 100 WP.
Player B kills 4 people during the time it took for Player A to cap that point. Player B now has 200 WP.
Alright, so here's the hypothetical example to support your hypothesis and subsequent conjecture. Clearly, in this situation, the 'slayer' is coming out on top. This is definitely a plausible situation, but is a very microcosmic way of looking at things. It concerns, at most, a minute or two or play time from one game, not mention performance over and entire game or average performance over dozens of games.
For example, will the 'slayer' always reap kills at the same rate, or will the other types of players have a greater likelihood of sustained - though less maximal - growth rates of WP?
Zekain Kade wrote:Sure, all the logi players will get some recognition now, but they will still be at the bottom of the score board with the lowest WP score. High KD players will probably always be at the top of the score board, and changing it to war points wont change that.
Restatement of the original thesis. Gotcha.
KD = WP, therefore High KD = High WP > Low WP = Low KD. Subsequently, KD > WP.
Zekain Kade wrote:Changing the score board to war points is basically a cry from the bad players because the want to look like they helped when they really didn't.
But...wait. In order for that to be true, your original thesis and hypothesis would have to be false...
Zekain Kade wrote:a lot of you will have a hard time getting over 300 points, while I'll probably be hitting 1000 in nearly every game.
I bet a lot of people will have a hard time regularly getting 300 WP, and you may very well keep up over 1000 average. Sme things to consider, however...
Total WP also takes into account both player skill and time spent playing. It's a better measure of lifetime accomplishment, versus a simple ratio that could be calculated from a very small sample size.
Ultimately, well have to wait and see. I fully expect to see 'slayers' up at the top of the WP boards. Along with some pilots, some AV/AI specialists, snd some logisticians. I don't know that there will be clear and utter dominance you expect, and I don't believe there is such a strong perfect correlation between KD and WP. |