Doddy
Omega Fleet Enterprises Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2008.02.08 13:32:00 -
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Originally by: Hannobaal (Well ok, I will ignore for a while the fact that the whole idea of chestbeating about your "k/d ratio" is for people who play "Counterstrike in space" which is silly and not what Eve is about. But anyway... )
It seems that BoB lately (perhaps in lack of any other possible in-game achievements to brag about at all) have been endlessly bringing up their vaunted "k/d ratio" to (I guess) somehow attempt to prove that they are better than the alliances that have been fighting them despite their losses to those alliances. So, I thought I should look into this a little further and see if it really is all it is *****ed up to be. Unfortunately, doing so I ran into a problem. While BoB's killboard will show isk efficiency (which really is the only reliable measure here) for individual pilots, it does NOT do so for corps and alliances. It will only show number of ships lost and number of ships killed.
But since BoB aren't the only ones to have killboards we can look at their opponents' killboards (who mostly are the normal killboard style) and get a bit of perpective at BoB's real k/d. Below are the numbers for a few of them. (I thought of using battleclinic as well, however it shows them as having a near 0% ISK efficiency, so I will be nice and charitable and refrain from doing so.) The ones listed below are first the corp I'm in and then those alliances I could think of that are actively involved in fighting BoB and have killboards that show ISK efficiency.
Anyway, BoB's ISK efficiency versus...
Igneus Auctorita: 9.82% (ouch... I'm confused. I was told BoB was better than us....)
IRON: 34.2% Tau Ceti Federation: 44.56% Razor: 47.95% Mostly Harmless: 49.81 Pure : 53.81% Morsus Mihi: 57.12%
I am just going to pretend you don't really understand how killboard efficiency works. When mixed fleets are involved, the smaller entities will always get an excellent efficiency, as they will get on lots of kills while risking very few losses. Using my own "bob pet" alliance as an example, one [EXE] inty pilot riding in a bob gang can get on a huge amount of kills, while only ever risking one small loss. The northern entities you have mentioned often fly in mixed gangs, so as alliances they benefit from this, and your corp, being from such a large alliance, is the same. I think TCF's figures are quite impressive as they often wander about in their own fleets but even so for big fights they will be fighting alongside RA, GS and maybe more. Killboard efficiency is largely irrelevant in the "great war" unless somone made GBC/coallition/tortuga boards and used only the efficiencies for the factions themselves. Ofc as BoB hasn't got many allies left its board would be the most relevent, but it doesn't show efficiency so w/e If you want to look at just efficiency our board shows 95% efficiency vs tortuga, but i don't think that fools anyone
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