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Efficiency Calculation #15

Open erichkknaar opened 13 years ago

erichkknaar commented 13 years ago

Biggest item on my wishlist is a proper calculation of efficiency. If 500 people kill a titan, it should show as 100 mil on your individual killboard, not as 50 billion. If 10 of them are in my corp, my corp should show a billion of kill price from it. Stop padding everyone's killboards for them, and give us some genuinely meaningful stats.

-- Herschel Yamamoto

erichkknaar commented 13 years ago

What I really would like to see is a meaningful point system. Currently even if you blob someone to death everyone gets at least 1 point, thus creating points out of "thin air".

I'd do it something like this: killpoints/numberofkillers If this results in blobbers in getting 0.0000000001 points for a kill then too bad.

However this should be tied into battlereports so that a 20 on 20 goodfite gives the same points as 1on1s would.

Alternatively track solo kills separately from gang kills like this: solo killpoints: 5 fleet killpoints: 367

-- Tekedo

erichkknaar commented 13 years ago

I suspect this would make it very popular as a central resource of kills. I'd definitely want to look it up when checking out someone's history in preference of Eve-kill.

Would be interesting to see which corps would use it for themselves.

-- Dodgy Past

tekedo commented 13 years ago

I am having the feeling that a proper efficiency formula would actually make a new killboard "the" killboard practically overnight.

Marlona-Sky commented 13 years ago

Creating the formula would be very tricky. What resources from numbers would be helpful on keeping it dynamic in staying with the times?

Not sure how to ask that another way. :(

I guess what things would need to be factored into the formula? Ship size, hit points, number of people, what they are flying, number of different corps/alliances/blues, location (high, low, null sec)??

erichkknaar commented 13 years ago

These are good questions. I think this is really the most important part of the design to get right.

First Questions. Should the points be based on ship sizes, or value of ship/fitting?

erichkknaar commented 13 years ago

Another important component to this: DO we allow the idea for upvote/downvote functionality (#11) to affect player ranking/kill worth?

Marlona-Sky commented 13 years ago

No. This would get meta gammed like crazy.