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I'm interested in behavioral economics too ...planning to do my dissertation using data from MMOs.  I'm not sure why you couldn't achieve the same result using blinded ID numbers? (not Illy IDs) -- as long as each player and location were uniquely identified.

I'm sure we're all going to be interested in your research results as well.  Are you familiar with the Daedalus Project? The Daedalus Gateway: The Psychology of MMORPGs, 

I haven't thoroughly reviewed the site, and it seems to have more in terms of sociological or psychological stuff, but you might find it interesting.


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Originally posted by Rill Rill wrote:

TheNoon, this post describes how Rankings are calculated




Damn, really wanted to do a little bit of scripting in Matlab to work this out :-P 

Cheers Rill.

The other trade stuff would not be published in the public domain. I would keep it confidential  - the reason the names maybe of interest comes from a behavioural economics theory that I would like to test.

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TheNoon, this post describes how Rankings are calculated


I dunno how players would feel about release of their trade data ... since it could be used to indicate who is building how many of what troops where.  Might I suggest that player and town names be blinded (replaced by dummy numbers) as a compromise?  If I am correct that people might object?
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Hi there,

So I have a few data requests. One is for a tutorial on Rankings, and the other is a research interest. Feel free to PM me for more info as to what the research is.

OK rankings first: Quite a few people ask how the rankings are calculated. Could you give me the equations as to the way that this is done. OR alternatively I could reverse engineer the raw data to get the weightings, distribution curves etc...

Trades:- (this is for some research, and I would appreciate an PM about this and would highlight my credentials etc...)
I want basically the Sell and Buy times, and their associated Player Names and Town Name distance price and volume. For say a 3 month period.


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Please another request (after the race I'll leave you alone - maybe for ever because I don't understand data downloads much) - someone on caravanserai asked if GM could announce the race along with the link to the race thread (eg in Herald as a small ad) and then announce the winners in the Herald?
I'm not sure how winners will be rewarded.  I wanted winner plus 19 runners up plus newest member to enter (ie 50% to winner, 50% split between next 20) but we haven't really discussed this.  At least the prize pot is big enough to split!
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GM request (or actually anyone else) - roughly what time (to the nearest half a day) should each country set their scouts away?  I haven't really worked out speeds and so on and don't know the overall map, so I can't work it out.  I want to do a countdown on GC ("Worlds' End runners should be starting just about now" and so on)
If you wonder why I'm asking such ignorant questions, I only joined 19 Aug and I haven't ever played a strategy game on the internet before - Illy is fantastic!
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yes to all.  Big learning curve for me!
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How can someone loose scouts? Armies don't destroy scouts! (i'm not sure if you could fail in the mission if you send just 1 scout though)
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Originally posted by Hugie Hugie wrote:

wow - so the race is on?
I presume nobody can get to 0 0 because it's marked as "impassable", which is why i'm racing to 0 -2.  But if you can provide the closest 20 scouts to 8pm on Sunday (either side before or afterwards) (and I imagine that most people will get within a minute of winning timeso it will probably be seconds or 100th of seconds) then that would be fantastic! Do you just send me a download link for the winning scouts?
Now to persuade some of the nay-sayers on General Chat who say it can't be done - Ryelle said she lost scouts when she sent them to 0 -2, whereas mine came back fine.
There are enough who say it can be done - have contributed to the prize pot!

gm himself can announce the winners.
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wow - so the race is on?
I presume nobody can get to 0 0 because it's marked as "impassable", which is why i'm racing to 0 -2.  But if you can provide the closest 20 scouts to 8pm on Sunday (either side before or afterwards) (and I imagine that most people will get within a minute of winning timeso it will probably be seconds or 100th of seconds) then that would be fantastic! Do you just send me a download link for the winning scouts?
Now to persuade some of the nay-sayers on General Chat who say it can't be done - Ryelle said she lost scouts when she sent them to 0 -2, whereas mine came back fine.
There are enough who say it can be done - have contributed to the prize pot!
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