
Originally Posted by
acer5200
Actually, you'll find that they kinda do.
I mean consider this for a second. There's over 500 different posters coming to the same conclusion, whereas you're 1 that's different and won't see any logic.
Now, let's assume that this is only .5% of Evony's total playerbase.
Now let's use some basic logic and math.
If 500 people on the forum disagree with you and they make up .5% of Evony's playerbase, then there should logically be, 1,000,000 people that disagree. You're one person. Using the same logic as before, there'll be only 2,000 of you.
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NOTE: My math is all fake and made up, the point in this reply is not to show numbers,
but to enlighten the masses on what i believe jp meant.
while these statements are true, i believe you misinterperated jp's statements and i do not believe they accurately rebute the statements made by jp.
jp said that the forum does not acurately represent evony's player base and you responded with math that just gave ratio's showing the numbers of possible player bases using arbiturary numbers.
While jp was pointing out something completly different.
I believe he was referring to his belief that the user bases on the forums constitute a different type of average population that the average evony user.
considering that evony is composed of a couple of general types of players.
1. causal with no money or no time no no care
2. serious with money time or care (care being they just care too much)
and secondly considering that the average player of evony is not on the forums, you can generalize that the average person on the forum is on the forum and posting because he as vested interested in the development of evony. This interested is derived from either lots of time, lots of money, or lots of care for evony.
While the average forum user might be described as this, the average evony game user cannot.
So considering that the average forum user leans much more towards hardcore than casual, then you can assume other things.
Using more made up numbers, lets say that 90% of the forum population is hardcore, and 10% is not. Lets also say that evony is made up of 50% causal users, and 50% hardcore users/
With thoes numbers we'll relate the previous assumption that 500 people disagree with JP, and noone agree's
using these made up forum ratio numbers we can then say that for every 500 people on the forum that disagree with jp and for every 1 that agree on the forum, then in game we have to use math to then determine that for every 1 person that agree's with jp here in the forum, there are 10x the number of people that agree with him in game. (if you dont understand how i came up with this, remember that we have calculated that the forum population is biased toward hardcore at a ratio of
9:1 compared to 1:1
so therefore at a total (again made up) player base of 1,000,000 people, using our made up ratio's we can say that instead of only 2,000 people agreeing with jp, that really 18,000 people agree not 2,000
Again, while the math i used is probably completly wrong (i hate statistics), the argument jp makes is still valid.
The median forum user is more hardcore than the median evony game user, therefore, even tho the disagree/agree ratio might be at 500/1 the ratio for evony game users must be closer to 50/10 or something whatever the real number is.
I hope you get the point by now
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