Trellish
Ten Ton Hammer
The Red Skull
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Posted - 2008.10.23 07:36:00 -
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TBH, I don't really care about values on killboards. Granted HF uses quite low values for their kills while TRS has tried to be a bit closer to market value (though with still some missing values).... tbh though, it's an absolute nightmare trying to stay on top of that kind of thing and who really wants to spend their game time making sure those values are updated? I know we've killed some faction fit ships with mods that went through at a couple hundred k value.... Really though, who gives a flying flip? As long as the killboard is consistent... not valuing kills of a ship higher than losses of the same ship, and any changes made to values affect both sides, then it's all good. It's not like Killboards are ever really accurate in the first place. There's too much ability to juggle numbers...
For example, Huzzahs 91% efficiency ratio on their war dec campaign posted at the top of their killboard, made by limiting the systems and dates from which kills are pulled. The real ratio for those dates where all systems are included, per the details on their killboard is 48% versus thorn and 43% versus TRS as of the time of this writing.
Don't misunderstand me... I'm not criticizing them posting 91% efficiency based off that data... It's a legit efficiency based off the criteria they set. It only shows how possible it is to make stats say just about anything. I'm sure HF could point to ways in which TRS has done similar things of which I'm unaware. My point is though, that all of us are (or should be) aware of how valuable stats from killboards actually are. Mostly, they are just records of participation and have very little other value.
There've been calls on both sides accusing of not posting kills. Let's just drop it. We're both API'ed in... it's gonna mostly be there. Yes API's arent perfect. I know TRS had a day or so where our API was down due to some web work, during which we were accused of not posting stuff... I'm sure there's been similar situations for HF.
I'm signing off and going back to pew pew... I suggest you do the same. YARRR! 
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