Analytics

The Devs should add analytics to the game, it would help a lot with balancing.

It would be interesting to know stats like how much damage a knight/archer does per minute.
How often do people die in a sawmill.
Which items are used the most. etc...

 

Don't remove the fog of war.

 

what

 

That doesnt matter, averages are still useful.

 

While it would definitely be imperfect I think all sorts of really useful data could be gained. Some trends would be really apparent- like a feel some time ago MM fudged up the netcode a bit and some time recently he fixed it. I can't substantiate either claim since there's so much variation in my personal experience but if we had even rudimentary statistics you could compare the standard deviation of KDs between builds- lower SD would mean that there is less of a KD difference between good and bad players, which would suggest skill has become less of a factor due to bad new code.

 

get rekd.

"The fog of war is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations."

 

Quit the one liners/spam already, okay?

 

Lol! What?


We're talking about gathering statistics about the game here.
You now statistics? It's a field of mathematics :)

 

Thanks for enlightning us all with your science.
I'm just going to stop arguing with you because you're clearly like... twelve years old.
But I wish you well and I know you're going to be a great scientist some day.

 

How about replacing the Kills to Deaths ratio with Damage Done to Damage Taken?

It'd be a hell of a lot more reliable information than KD, since you can stab someone even after your buddy has repeatedly reduced his health after he ate a burger.

 

I've actually suggested this to Geti a few things and each times he's said that if I (or someone else presumably) makes something, he'll put it in the game.

 

he said "what?" because you randomly brought up fog of war in a thread that started about gathering statistics, you nignog.

 

Resurrecting this thread because having statistics would be great.

Having a TF2 styled system that tracks kills/deaths would be nice, but it has been discussed before and doesn't matter that much. However, implementing a system where you can see class time used, kills with specific items, which items you have bought, and so forth, would be awesome.

Yes, it would take a lot of work and I don't know if it would be worth putting the time into, but it still would be nice.

 

Why do you add something if you're not even sure that it'd be worth it?

 

I am not the one who makes the game, so I don't know how much time and effort would be needed to make this idea work. The time it would take to make this could be spent on more important things.

No harm would come from adding this to the game itself since it is just statistics. It all really is just dependent upon if the Devs and Testers think it has a high enough priority to implement.

No use in ruthlessly backing something if the Devs don't to put forth the effort to do it.