Beginner's Guide to EA Arcoscephale

[analytic_kernel]

Chris, I hope I'm not being too anal[ytical] about this, but I think that r is r(t), and that we don't necessarily know the form of n(t) or r(t). Looking at your number of posts, I'm guessing that you are a seasoned player, so I trust your judgement. But, if we wanted to be semi-empirical about it, we could collect data (possibly with the --statfile option, though I haven't tried it) on number of provinces and dominion for each turn, and then fit the data sets as a function of t. This would give the forms for n(t) and r(t).

Of course, this might just tell the experimenter that he needs to improve his n(t) - build more temples.

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by analytic_kernel

Chris, I hope I'm not being too anal[ytical] about this, but I think that r is r(t), and that we don't necessarily know the form of n(t) or r(t). Looking at your number of posts, I'm guessing that you are a seasoned player, so I trust your judgement. But, if we wanted to be semi-empirical about it, we could collect data (possibly with the --statfile option, though I haven't tried it) on number of provinces and dominion for each turn, and then fit the data sets as a function of t. This would give the forms for n(t) and r(t).

Of course, this might just tell the experimenter that he needs to improve his n(t) - build more temples.

That actually would be kind of interesting. But the statfile gives no information on the number of temples... But still for an empirical fit...it would be ok.

Ah. But you still would have to adjust for *map* size, too, and density of starting positions...

[Sombre]

Originally Posted by analytic_kernel

Looking at your number of posts, I'm guessing that you are a seasoned player, so I trust your judgement.

This is not wise.

Edit: To be clear I'm not referring to Chris, just generally.

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Sombre

This is not wise.

Heh. Without referring to chris in particular, I agree. I have a large number of posts and relatively little experience, none of it MP--people with many posts are *garrulous* players.

I tend to think the number of "thanks" are a more useful guide--at least you know that the person has had useful information to share in the past. Although there's still no guarantee that the really skilled players will show up on that metric, either.

See? I did it again--couldn't resist posting.

-Max

[chrispedersen]

Originally Posted by Sombre

This is not wise.

Edit: To be clear I'm not referring to Chris, just generally.

Thanks, I was beginning to take that personally.... = )

[analytic_kernel]

Originally Posted by Sombre

This is not wise.

Edit: To be clear I'm not referring to Chris, just generally.

Actually, when I invoked this generally unwise metric, I was thinking of Chris specifically, having read some of his posts in other threads. But, I agree that, in general, it is as about as useful as lines of code as a metric....

Different people have different signal to noise ratios.

But this post is about life and not about EA Arco strategy, so it probably is tipped more to a Noise 2 or 3 scale itself....