Robinette wrote:Cool seeing those reviews...
And why the heck does this thread have more off topic discussion about map popularity than web reviews of CC??
Well, I should resist the urge, but DiM's distortion of the stats (implying AoM is 8x more popular than USA) was just too much for me... you see, games were created at a much slower pace in the old days, so to get a real glimpse of map popularity you should look at current active games... if you do you'll see that the USA map has more current games, of course some of those games were started before AoM:Might existed, so all things considered, it close enough for me to call them about equal.
actually the active games method has a big flaw. it doesn't take into consideration the average duration of a game as well as the average number of players in each game.
for example world2.1 games take longer to finish and they are usually played by at least 4-6 players. so in the time such a game takes to finish on doodle earth there will be probably 10 times more games since that's a small and fast map.
if i make a map with 1000 terits it's enough to get 5 pages of games cause they'll stay active for 6 months but in that time doodle will probably get 1000 pages of finished games even if judging by active the 1000 terit map will seem more popular.
that's why i think games per day is the best description of a map's popularity.
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:27 pm
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