Why the obsession with WN8?
Дата: 10.07.2015 23:38:06
Ricox, on Jul 10 2015 - 07:31, said: Nothing, but there need to be more measurements to
complement win rate. Win rate alone is not a good enough
measurement because it can be padded with platoons and low-tier
play. WN8 can be padded by worthless damage farming and such, but
many of stat ratings can be padded in some way. It's hard for
people to pad every single statistic every game, though. And
someone who can do all that is probably a good player anyway.
Although there recently has been a new rating called 'xTE'
implemented and it seems more straightforward and a better rating -
it simply rates you based on your damage compared to average & top
damage of each tank. Much harder to earn than WN8 and, although
damage can still be farmed, it uses actual averages unlike WN8, so
to get high xTE in WN8 farming tanks - you actually need to be
good, because the average is much higher and a 2k WN8 performance
could not even make it to 50 xTE (the rating is 1-100 it seems) if
everyone farms the tank for high WN8 and drives the averages up
significantly.The_Chieftain: Fair answer, though I don't really care much if my
team-mates are a stat-pad platoon or an individual. As long as the
end effect is that we win. My problem with WN8 or similar is
that it seems to reward things like causing damage, it doesn't
reward less tangible effects. For example, let's say I am the most
strategic-minded person in the game. Every game, I fire one shot,
one shot only. That one shot is so perfectly timed and placed that
it has the effect of changing the battle, resulting in a win. What
does WN8 do? Let's say I 'tank', and like to play T95, Maus, etc.
Things which often don't get to shoot as much but do a wonderful
job of securing a flank by making people go somewhere else or just
holding them up. The only thing which shows that is win rate.
Why the obsession with WN8?