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CCP Fallout
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Posted - 2010.06.10 17:12:00 -
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It's that time! Dr. EyjoG and the Research and Statistics team have compiled the latest, greatest QEN Q1 2010. Check out Doc's blog for more information.
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2010.06.10 17:17:00 -
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Ahh the numbers!
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nails
Caldari Ota Corps
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Posted - 2010.06.10 17:38:00 -
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This is an excellent idea! I will enjoy reading this on my tablet. --------------
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Estel Arador
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Posted - 2010.06.10 17:57:00 -
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Nice
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Gnulpie
Minmatar Miner Tech
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Posted - 2010.06.10 18:04:00 -
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Yay!
A new QEN! Woooot! |
Smoke Adian
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Posted - 2010.06.10 18:29:00 -
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a) How does one person lose 16 T3's in a year?
b) Can I get an invite to the WH system that has 45 strategic cruisers sitting in it?
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MailDeadDrop
The Collective
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Posted - 2010.06.10 18:48:00 -
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Originally by: Smoke Adian a) How does one person lose 16 T3's in a year?
b) Can I get an invite to the WH system that has 45 strategic cruisers sitting in it?
Answers: a. See profligately b. Probably not.
Since I can't really say it better than someone else already has, allow me to simply quote her here (edited for format):
Originally by: Mme Pinkerton IMO a good report on the state of the economy should feature the following:
(1) what are our general policy goals? (2) what happened since the last report (3) how did our policies/actions work out during that period? (4) what do we expect to happen without us doing anything unusual? (5) in broad terms - what are we going to do to tweak/avoid the scenario in (4) (6) in-depth review of some topic of general interest
currently CCP does (2), (6) and to a very limited degree (3).
(1) and (4), (5) would add a great deal of transparency and predictability to the economy of EVE.
Some people might want to add (5*) what is going to happen when taking the actions from (5) into account. IMO that kind of prediction when made by the policymaker himself will always be unrealistically optimistic and of little real value. there are other arguments for/against this point but I don't think it's a good idea to include this in public reports.
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Proctoria Khian
Garoun Investment Bank
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Posted - 2010.06.10 19:08:00 -
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Been waiting for this one, drooling over it now. Great Stuff!
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Andrea Griffin
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Posted - 2010.06.10 19:40:00 -
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Hooray! Thank you for your work. : >
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Yuki Kulotsuki
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Posted - 2010.06.10 19:42:00 -
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Sweet. Although to be honest I'm more looking forward to the next one.
Originally by: CCP Lemur THIS IS GOD: ... IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE REQUESTS I'M AVAILABLE SUNDAY FROM 10:30 TO 12:00 TO RECEIVE YOUR PRAYERS.
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Josehpine
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Posted - 2010.06.10 20:01:00 -
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the part of the t3 stuff is missing an important ingridient. What was the influence of the changes to ancient salvage loot to them, id guess the two spikes, or the drops after them were due to them, but there no mention of that important fact in the dev blog
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wr3cks
Reliables Inc Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.06.10 20:14:00 -
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Once again, this sucks.
Ship types in use conveys no useful information, because it obviously consists of a query that says "what ship type are people in RIGHT NOW" with 320k users and no more than 50k online (and I bet you're not running the script at peak usage times -- in fact, are you running it at downtime?).
A useful query would be ships destroyed in the past month or three, preferably broken down into ships destroyed by rats (in pve) and by other players (pvp). Group it by ship classes (battleships, recons) for one report and for specific ships (dominix, falcons) for another. It would also be useful to see the relative popularity of ships within classes (what's the most popular HAC?).
Instead, you tell us that 42% of players are in shuttles or capsules, and 43% are in "other" while there are a couple % of people logged off in hulks, drakes, domis, ravens, and crappy frigates. Worthless.
Population distribution -- if you played the game, you might know that the CVA/provi block fell apart and there was a lot of fighting there. "This can be theorized as being the result of a large shift in the political landscape..." Oh, you can theorize that? What kind of garbage is this? That's something you write on a college exam in some gut class for which you haven't done the reading, like rocks for jocks (geology 101) or physics for poets. One could also theorize that if you played the game, you might have a clue what was going on in it.
Mineral prices -- Giving us indices without basket compositions is worthless. It would be like reporting on the Dow Jones Industrial Average without telling people what the stocks in it were, and how they were weighted in the index. You might as well tell us that it's 11i+3.
Your discussion of insurance fraud would have been solid had it been done six months ago. You basically reposted what 10 people replied to your last QEN with. Congrats.
Had you any initiative or interest in this game that you don't play, you might have done some research to see how big, in isk terms, the insurance fraud scam was, and given some assessment of its impact on the economy. But I guess it's too much work to do anything but repost some 3 month old replies in a PDF with spaceship pictures.
Treatment of high-ends was actually decent and useful, if brief.
More useless indices. The PPI, comprised of t2 stuff and also ice and drone poo in unknown quantities, went up by smileyface minus interrobang.
Actual t2 ship production meausred in tonnes is useful, information, though, but it's unclear whether the % increases are YOY or consecutive. I'd rather have a chart of this than some randomly constructed index.
The t3/WH section is actually decent and displays some knowledge of the game. Props. Makes me wonder if it was even written by the same person.
Snapshots -- The prereq for Hacking was reduced from a 10 day-2 week skill (electronics upgrades 5) to being less than 2 days. Plus, now noobs have the exploration skill tutorial, which tricks them into thinking that exploration without combat training is a viable career path. Nobody even knows if those stupid ihub upgrades to increase radar site spawns even work; read the forums. Ditto for analyzer.
The prereq for t1 armor hardeners changed? News to me. But who cares, the prereqs were stupid low to begin with.
Bottom line: This is bad. I hope he didn't spend more than two days on it. It was written by someone who has little knowledge of or interest in the game. I have a graduate degree in economics and actually enjoy the game and play it, and no job. Evemail me if you want a resume.
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Alice Celadon
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Posted - 2010.06.10 20:42:00 -
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Quote: The interesting thing is that ancient salvaged materials show two major spikes in price in May and July. The first spike is almost entirely caused by Neurovisual Input Matrices, while the second one is primarily driven by Neurovisual Input Matrices and Melted Nanoribbons. It would seem that the scarcity of these items came as a surprise to the market.
Free of charge, here's the correct explanation for this: CCP Devs twice increased the drop rate for NIMs, because they were an absurd bottleneck driving T3 prices far higher than CCP Devs wanted them to go. The second drop rate increase eliminated NIMs as a significant production cost in favor of a new Melted Nanoribbon bottleneck.
These drop rate changes are nearly impossible to predict, because they show up in patch notes as "The drop rate for Neurovisual Input Matrices has been increased." which is impossible to quantify. What's really troubling is that it seems CCP was "surprised by the scarcity" of these items -- even though CCP Devs should have access to the relative drop rates of T3 production materials. Given all that, the above quote from QEN really disturbs me. Does the economics team really not even get consulted when drop rates are formulated and altered?
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iP0D
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Posted - 2010.06.10 20:42:00 -
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Going over the introductory and other comments annex statements in the QEN, I get the impression this was either pieced together quite a while ago, or glued together from bits and pieces ranging from well before Dominion to well before Tyrannis. Either that, or seriously behind schedule in its release to public.
Also, snapshot data. Please stay away from it.
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El Liptonez
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Posted - 2010.06.10 20:59:00 -
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Edited by: El Liptonez on 10/06/2010 21:03:29
Originally by: wr3cks Once again, this sucks.Bottom line: This is bad. I hope he didn't spend more than two days on it. It was written by someone who has little knowledge of or interest in the game. I have a graduate degree in economics and actually enjoy the game and play it, and no job. Evemail me if you want a resume.
Ship types in use: So you leave your ship during downtime and then hop back afterwards? While I agree that a snapshot is surely not the best way to see what ships are flown, your idea is just dumb. Ships being blown up shows in no way what ships are flown the most. What it shows is, which are blown up the most.
Poluation distribution: Ever considered that the guy writing this doesn't even need to play the game? I'd rather have him tell vast theories about what might have happened than write some theoretical ****. It's pretty obvious there has been a shift simply by the whole south moving north plus old providence now living in the north. But who cares?
The mineral price thing I didn't read at all, not the report and not your reply. It's only a ton of rant and tears anyway.
Bottom line: You're a terrible whiny ***** and I hope you die in a fire (ingame) for the **** you posted. The writer surely hasn't spent only two days to write this, as this is in fact a very interesting read, aside the fact that most people know what's said there anyway. We should applaud him for giving us a little snapshot at what happens in EVE from a market angle. And I am more than happy that you don't write these reports, as they'd probably burst my head over the awesome intelligence powers you have.
Your attitude is probably the reason you don't have a job.
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ChaeDoc II
Gallente Capital Construction Research Pioneer Alliance
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Posted - 2010.06.10 21:12:00 -
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Originally by: Smoke Adian a) How does one person lose 16 T3's in a year?
b) Can I get an invite to the WH system that has 45 strategic cruisers sitting in it?
Sure, just join 'CCRES Public' channel ingame :)
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Pierru
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Posted - 2010.06.10 21:30:00 -
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The report really sucks, but I think is a very good idea .. anyway.
Some interesting data confuses me, as I understand it says that 88% of EVE population actually live in HiSec (and LowSec), and only 12% lives in Aliance/WH space? What the Dev mean when he say "live"? Most players usually move from HiSec to lowsec/null/WH and viceversa.
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wr3cks
Reliables Inc Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.06.10 21:52:00 -
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Originally by: El Liptonez Edited by: El Liptonez on 10/06/2010 21:03:29
Originally by: wr3cks Once again, this sucks.Bottom line: This is bad. I hope he didn't spend more than two days on it. It was written by someone who has little knowledge of or interest in the game. I have a graduate degree in economics and actually enjoy the game and play it, and no job. Evemail me if you want a resume.
Ship types in use: So you leave your ship during downtime and then hop back afterwards? While I agree that a snapshot is surely not the best way to see what ships are flown, your idea is just dumb. Ships being blown up shows in no way what ships are flown the most. What it shows is, which are blown up the most.
Ship consumption is valuable information. Static ship usage is not, particularly when 85% of the ships are shuttle, capsule, or other.
Originally by: El Liptonez Edited by: El Liptonez on 10/06/2010 21:03:29 Poluation distribution: I'd rather have him tell vast theories about what might have happened than write some theoretical ****.
Can't argue with that.
Originally by: El Liptonez Edited by: El Liptonez on 10/06/2010 21:03:29 The mineral price thing I didn't read at all, not the report and not your reply. It's only a ton of rant and tears anyway.
Sweet. Can you tell me more about things you haven't read?
Originally by: El Liptonez Edited by: El Liptonez on 10/06/2010 21:03:29 Bottom line: You're a terrible whiny ***** and I hope you die in a fire (ingame) for the **** you posted. The writer surely hasn't spent only two days to write this, as this is in fact a very interesting read, aside the fact that most people know what's said there anyway. We should applaud him for giving us a little snapshot at what happens in EVE from a market angle. And I am more than happy that you don't write these reports, as they'd probably burst my head over the awesome intelligence powers you have.
Your attitude is probably the reason you don't have a job.
+1 for quality trolling attempt.
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Solo Player
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Posted - 2010.06.10 21:56:00 -
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Very nice screenshots in that report. Why don't you add them to your media section so I could use them for desktop backgrounds?
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Qoi
New Eden Warriors
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Posted - 2010.06.10 22:28:00 -
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No insurance discussion, no t3 salvage bottleneck discussion, no idea why analyzer spiked in usage.
the rest is almost as useful as an akita t post (apart from his posts in mining related threads), and the pictures are pwetty
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Princess Jodi
Cutting Edge Incorporated RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2010.06.10 22:59:00 -
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The population increase in the North and the associated decreases in the South are prolly due to the large War we just had up North. I'm looking forward to seeing what happened during April and May, while the conflict raged.
Please try to give us some analysis of that next quarter, as it was a hell of a fight, lasted exactly 2 months (April 1 to the end of May) and certainly will show predominately pvp ship losses. Also look at Technium during that period as most of the Tech moons in Pure Blind and surrounds spent more time in Reinforced mode than actually producing.
You should also get a good picture of what ships are being used for PVP.
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Trader Jen
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Posted - 2010.06.10 23:51:00 -
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someone forget to tell you guys that the first quarter of 2010 ended over 2 months ago? |
Shaemell Buttleson
Euphoria Released HYDRA RELOADED
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Posted - 2010.06.10 23:54:00 -
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Going off on a bit of a tangent here I'd like to know how many skill points the pilot lost who lost the 16 Strategic cruisers.
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Thoraemond
Minmatar Far Ranger
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Posted - 2010.06.11 01:18:00 -
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Originally by: QEN 2010-Q1 The number of characters per account is 1.99, which is a slight decrease from the previous figure of 2.1 per account. Given the large sample size, this is actually a statistically significant decrease, but it is too soon to tell whether the change is permanent.
Why would you use sampling at all? I thought these QEN numbers were being drawn from the entire population / database.
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Dragon Greg
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Posted - 2010.06.11 01:20:00 -
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I am sorry, apologies if the following comes across a little harsh, but this is not a QEN. This is a marketing document.
Just read carefully the section of Population Distribution, pair the conclusions per paragraph with each other, and see what it says and how the "conclusions" are being presented.
This has nothing to do with EVE's economics, this was written to send off to a marketing campaign, maybe even to send off to joint collaboration projects on virtual economy studies, but that is about it.
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Cinori Aluben
Minmatar Gladiators of Rage Honourable Templum of Alcedonia
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Posted - 2010.06.11 01:31:00 -
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Berrry good. Will have to chew on these numbers for a bit.
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Xyfu
Minmatar Shadow's of Ezra On the Rocks
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Posted - 2010.06.11 02:48:00 -
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Holy cr*p page 19, I almost came.
It was all like: SUDDENLY, ART. OUT OF NOWHERE. _____ ^ That is a sig line. It should be there without me having to put one in. |
orkorde
Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2010.06.11 03:12:00 -
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Wasn't Dominion meant to encourage the populating of Null Sec? Based on that report, it failed. (Worse - populations are now more densely focused in the regions North and South, so under the umbrella of a very small number of power blocks.)
Also a pity that you did not report on population density this time. Would have been interesting to see where Providence sits now compared to the end of 2009. |
Asiel
Caldari The Baby Sitters Caretakers
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Posted - 2010.06.11 08:27:00 -
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Edited by: Asiel on 11/06/2010 08:29:52 eve economic experts rofl
some players had figured out just before the 1st release date of tyrannis that there was some isk to be made on market changes.
eve economic experts thought they could prevent that, by completely undercutting there whole pi system and giving people more time to figure out the market changes.
now 100's of millions of those items have been bought at npc market and gonna rule PI product price's for some time to come.
dev economic team + PI is FAIL
ps. i mean why go doing a stupid clickidy clicking mini game when you can get the items on market cheap.
try buying a cheap pos and reprocess it that gives some nice items
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iP0D
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Posted - 2010.06.11 09:28:00 -
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Originally by: Thoraemond
Originally by: QEN 2010-Q1 The number of characters per account is 1.99, which is a slight decrease from the previous figure of 2.1 per account. Given the large sample size, this is actually a statistically significant decrease, but it is too soon to tell whether the change is permanent.
Why would you use sampling at all? I thought these QEN numbers were being drawn from the entire population / database.
Because first of all it would otherwise be way too much work, when there is so much more really interesting stuff to pursue, like research projects and such. Second of all, different methods would actually rock the boat, in terms of having to report on macro demographical impacts and more interesting demographical patterns which are not very comforting from a commercial point of view.
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Louis deGuerre
Gallente Amicus Morte Shock an Awe
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Posted - 2010.06.11 10:54:00 -
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Nice work as always. Sol: A microwarp drive? In a battleship? Are you insane? They arenÆt built for this! Clear Skies - The Movie
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Cailais
Amarr British Armoured Division
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Posted - 2010.06.11 11:52:00 -
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Originally by: wr3cks Once again, this sucks.
I have a graduate degree in economics and actually enjoy the game and play it, and no job. Evemail me if you want a resume.
Why on earth would I want to employ someone with such a negative attitude?
C.
the hydrostatic capsule blog
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Some Advisor
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Posted - 2010.06.11 12:19:00 -
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Originally by: Smoke Adian b) Can I get an invite to the WH system that has 45 strategic cruisers sitting in it?
no, we would have to kill you :P --- Donations, thankyou / hatemails always welcome :P if you want to "ragequit" or take a longer break: "can i have your stuff" ? :P i also like BPOs of any kind with the promise you get it back :) |
Akita T
Caldari Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2010.06.11 14:37:00 -
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Meh. Some interesting stuff here and there, but the narrative overall... I'd better refrain from commenting.
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Chi Quan
Bibkor Enterprises
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Posted - 2010.06.11 16:46:00 -
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Originally by: Solo Player Very nice screenshots in that report. Why don't you add them to your media section so I could use them for desktop backgrounds?
I second that. Nice screens. ---- Ceterum censeo blasters need some tracking love |
wr3cks
Reliables Inc Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.06.12 11:49:00 -
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Originally by: Cailais
Originally by: wr3cks Once again, this sucks.
I have a graduate degree in economics and actually enjoy the game and play it, and no job. Evemail me if you want a resume.
Why on earth would I want to employ someone with such a negative attitude?
C.
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays!
This was, to be clear, not a serious suggestion. Literally every bank in Iceland recently went bankrupt; I'm sure CCP has plenty of people to choose from if they cared to. The problem seems to be, as people have repeatedly said in response to this and previous QENs, that this is just a weird marketing document whose target audience is, at best, ambiguous.
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Marquis d'Carabas
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Posted - 2010.06.12 14:16:00 -
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Edited by: Marquis d''Carabas on 12/06/2010 14:18:15 Edited by: Marquis d''Carabas on 12/06/2010 14:16:54
Originally by: Thoraemond
Why would you use sampling at all? I thought these QEN numbers were being drawn from the entire population / database.
You mean to look up sample. And what he meant is that the number of accounts is large enough for this to be a significant statistical change. Would there only be e.g. 10k accounts for EVE the number may still say something but would not be statistically significant.
Cheers.
EDIT: This link is actually better ... sample size
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Marchocias
Silent Ninja's
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Posted - 2010.06.12 14:30:00 -
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Go on - tell us who lost those 16 T3s! I could do with a good laugh, and it'll be more entertaining if its directly in their face!
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Raneru
Euphoria Released
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Posted - 2010.06.12 14:59:00 -
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The most flown ship statistic is disturbing. Time for another Hulkageddon?
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khazak mokl
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Posted - 2010.06.12 15:12:00 -
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Originally by: ChaeDoc II
Originally by: Smoke Adian a) How does one person lose 16 T3's in a year?
b) Can I get an invite to the WH system that has 45 strategic cruisers sitting in it?
Sure, just join 'CCRES Public' channel ingame :)
I was quite excited till I checked how many I had lost and then found out it was less than 16 .
No prizes for guessing which system had the most T3s though.
On a whole I thought the Quaterly Report was very interesting reading even if I dont mine or do indy. Just shows how our 'accidental clients' do to make there isk when they need to replace there ships suddenly.
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Daisuke Aoki
Gallente Independent Coalition Primary.
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Posted - 2010.06.13 06:40:00 -
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Nice report.
Anyone else notice they completely left out Omist in that list of regions on page 10?
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Thoraemond
Minmatar Far Ranger
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Posted - 2010.06.13 08:01:00 -
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Originally by: Thoraemond Why would you use sampling at all? I thought these QEN numbers [characters per account] were being drawn from the entire population / database.
Originally by: iP0D Because first of all it would otherwise be way too much work, when there is so much more really interesting stuff to pursue, like research projects and such. Second of all, different methods would actually rock the boat, in terms of having to report on macro demographical impacts and more interesting demographical patterns which are not very comforting from a commercial point of view.
Calculating the number of pilots per account in the entire population should be trivially accomplished with a quick one-line SQL query. If such an inquiry cannot be answered in O(1) time using a meta table, it can probably be answered in O(n) time against only a single table, and n for that table would be only on the order of 10^6: i.e., it is a very simple, very small query.
Devising, validating and implementing any sampling method would be virtually guaranteed to take more human effort. Sampling might make sense for some other analyses, but not for the one I quoted... hence my comment.
As to the rest of your remark, I am not sure that I understand why the inherent precision and accuracy of population statistics would be less comforting commercially than the alternative of sampling. Don't commercial enterprises prefer certainty? Please explain.
Originally by: Marquis d'Carabas You mean to look up sample. And what he meant is that the number of accounts is large enough for this to be a significant statistical change. Would there only be e.g. 10k accounts for EVE the number may still say something but would not be statistically significant. [...] EDIT: This link is actually better ... sample size
Thank you for linking to these further articles. When you have a chance to read (and understand) all three articles, you will see that the concepts of sampling, samples and sample size are (as the words themselves might hint to some readers) interrelated and consistent with each other. I'll throw a further link into the mix to help you understand my previous post: Rhetorical question. See what I did there?
The answer to my original question is, of course, that CCP probably did not use sampling to determine the numbers I quoted. That mention of sample size is hopefully just a misstatement, though I guess it might betray a more fundamental lack of understanding of statistical concepts on the part of the writer. á á
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iP0D
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Posted - 2010.06.13 12:48:00 -
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You appear to be laboring under the assumption that the doctor and his team have as a primary focus the QEN, or even the effectiveness of the virtual economy from a player perspective
It would be an idea to start googling around on research projects, collaborative studies on virtual economies by universities, etc.
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Virtuozzo
Against ALL Authorities
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Posted - 2010.06.13 13:59:00 -
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You mean like this? Worthy of a devblog imo
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Libin Herobi
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Posted - 2010.06.14 07:13:00 -
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Originally by: Akita T Meh. Some interesting stuff here and there, but the narrative overall... I'd better refrain from commenting.
If you want a pleasant narrative text you should read a novel...
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Mord Fiddle
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Posted - 2010.06.14 17:23:00 -
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I'd be very interested in seeing the underlying population numbers. Publicly available?
Also, I'd like to see see you speak to the impact of the Dominion sov mechanics in the Q2 report.
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Orephia
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Posted - 2010.06.14 22:34:00 -
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When listing numerical data in columns for comparison, such as in Table 4 on page 11, please use a fixed width font...
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zz01shagsme
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Posted - 2010.06.15 15:05:00 -
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anything out there to show market trends towards manufucturing?
I'd be interested to see the break down of t2 advanced materials as such and there relative increase/decrease since the patch.
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Bomberlocks
Minmatar CTRL-Q
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Posted - 2010.06.16 00:47:00 -
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Not being able to fly or produce T3 ships and only spending little time in WH space, the thing that I find the most interesting from the report is that: a)The total number of active account decreased by a few percent, b)The number of accounts per player decreased by about 10%, and c)Bears are still bears (88% still living in hisec), despite the very obvious but constant failure of attempts by CCP to push them into losec/nullsec.
I think a) and b) were probably because the developed world's economy has been sucking major donkey bolls and there are very probably many people for whom the monthly sub means paying a RL bill or not. In general though, I think the biggest fallacy is the claim that there are more people in Eve than in Iceland (as if anyone gives a flying f*** anyway). If there are around 2 accounts per player (some few will have up to 6 accounts, the majority just one or two) then at most 160000 people play eve.
Also, as per usual, after an expansion, coupled with CCP's over the top marketing, interest in Eve spikes, then drops off again as the nubs realise that Eve isn't as easy as marketing claims it is (surprise, surprise) and that the beginning months of Eve are usually a harder grind than their RL jobs are, and then decamp for greener pastures.
As for c), given that this hasn't changed at all since I started playing two years ago, one would think that CCP would get a clue and make the nub game more interesting and less of a grind so as to keep the nubs interest up until they can fly (and lose) more expensive shiny stuff. Personally I think corps like Eve Uni and RvB do more to keep nubs in the game than CCP's somewhat dull missions do.
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Lederstrumpf
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Posted - 2010.07.07 12:25:00 -
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page 8 > EVE's economic cycles pivot with expansions
Veteran industrialists know that any change resulting in some disbalance can be profited from eventually. This can be in game politics as well as turbulence causing expansions as well as buggy patches. Rumors are there's PI related bugs influencing uranium prices and the like atm?!?
page 8 > On average, each active character held about 300 mio ISK
I feel rich! Well, no: Chances are that players tend to speculate buying PLEX or other stuff once they have 300 mio is quite high! So 300m cash doesn't tell anything about how "rich" characters are on average.
page 8> Q1 2010 was a stable quarter
But yet the graph's right side on figure 1 shows what seems to be the steepest decline of accounts in about 10 years... got any clue why?
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