wr3cks
Reliables Inc
Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.11.14 02:15:00 -
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I'll bite...
Methodology
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1) Have you made any effort to aggregate accounts at the player level?
2) Have you made any effort to distinguish between mains and alts?
3) Have you made any effort to incorporate 1 and 2 into your stats?
Example: Do you really think 11,000 toons fly kestrels as a 'combat ship'? No. 10,980 of those are cyno alts. How many of those 11,000 have Cyno Field Theory trained? How many have their kestrel fit with a cyno lighter and ozone in the hold?
I imagine you've made some effort in this regard for marketing/customer retention/subscriber acquisition, but you could put a lot more meat on the bones of your stats if you could break out alts and second/third+ accounts. You may have 300,000 subscriptions but you don't have 300,000 subscribers.
4) Given significant academic interest in virtual worlds, have you engaged in discussions with economics research departments at major universities, ideally with an eye towards enabling some sort of research projects?
Lastly, not to be a jerk about it, but I can't help but wonder
5) Of the 10 people on the research&stats team, how many play the game (read: log in 2-3x per week and actually do stuff)?
Bots/Macros
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1) How many accounts are logged in for >15 hours a day? >18? >20?
2) How many toons have > 8.0 standing with these agents? Of those, how many have < 5 million SP? <3 million? How many overlap with #1?
3) What are the nullsec systems with the highest and/or most consistent bounty production? Ore production?
4) How many accounts per month are banned for botting/macroing? I'm not the first person in this thread to ask it, because the general suspicion is not many at all.
Gameplay Data
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1) Ships produced and destroyed, complete list. Destroyed by players/rats.
2) Modules and rigs, as #1.
3) Or, perhaps, most common fits? I don't need you guys to run a query to tell me that the most common fit is going to be a drake with t2 SPRs and a BCS or two. What's the most common arazu fit? muninn? I suspect there is a modal fit for higher-skilled ships.
Anyways, this is all I can think of for now.
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