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Let us measure, not debate, how much of DPS is the player's piloting skill and how much is gear
sophlogimo
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I propose the following challenge to find how much of a give DPS is skill and how much is gear.
For that, we obviously need to have the same build, so we can eliminate that variable. The best way to do that, I believe, is for several players to use a tactical Jem'Hadar character, take him fresh out of the tutorial without adjusting anything, not even boff powers or energy levels, and take him to a solo mission (I propose Sakari System Patrol we'll have to use the initial fight against the Idran Swarmers, but set your Difficulty to Elite right when on the first map of the new character; it will then be Elite on all following maps already) on Elite difficulty, then report the DPS (or even the parse).
By comparing players of various skill levels, we should pretty easily find out what the skill-based range for DPS is.
I'll post my results later today.
For that, we obviously need to have the same build, so we can eliminate that variable. The best way to do that, I believe, is for several players to use a tactical Jem'Hadar character, take him fresh out of the tutorial without adjusting anything, not even boff powers or energy levels, and take him to a solo mission (I propose Sakari System Patrol we'll have to use the initial fight against the Idran Swarmers, but set your Difficulty to Elite right when on the first map of the new character; it will then be Elite on all following maps already) on Elite difficulty, then report the DPS (or even the parse).
By comparing players of various skill levels, we should pretty easily find out what the skill-based range for DPS is.
I'll post my results later today.
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Compared to, say, the beginning player who follows the basic "how to build a ship" advice of "get weapons of all one energy type, and damage consoles that match".
(hah, that reminds me of how I assigned Active DOFF slots when I first discovered them - "Damn, I need a free spot for this new DOFF I earned! I know, I'll shove this white doff with a power that sounds kind of useful into an Active slot to free up roster space!" /facepalm And I generally pick my BOFFs by appearance/race/theme, rather than checking for their passives. But I'm not trying to be Pro, I've never really read meta-build guides for any MMO I've played.)
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Should a better test be a map you have not done before?
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Interesting. My first thought was that with everyone using such a basic build with fewer degrees of piloting discretion and fewer things to manage, "piloting skill" would have diminishing returns on such a build and the dps curve (x-axis = "piloting skill" and y-axis = dps) would flatten rather quickly such that there would be smaller differences between people above a certain inflection point.
While you'd need everyone to have the same build, there needs to be sufficient complexity to discriminate. True, one might argue that since it's a percentage, it might work. But, that assumes a linear correlation that I'm not sure exists.
I'd suspect that it's one of the reasons spamming spacebar works for so long for so many people in the game, but seems to become counterproductive later.
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Because they really don't give a TRIBBLE, and I don't see why you do.
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They have their group data, already.
If you want to continue with them, you must add your parse to their program.
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I’d suggest find a dirt cheap freebie build anyone can use and then selecting a patrol or something like Starbase 231 for a test.
However, I think this brings up an interesting topic of "what is skill". Does it involve keybinds and setting up a tray? Does it also mean that my rational thought would be that an engineering character would do better here because of power management and durability one might face? How about a Science captain who has a mix of both debuffs and damage buffs as well as durability powers?
There's also the case to be made about the actual consistency of this fight; I cannot remember it at all, so what's involved in this? ISA (if that's what this is about, I'm not quite sure) has a level of consistency in a close space that allows for everyone to be recorded at once and that's about it. In this patrol / mission (I'm not even sure which fight that's being discussed), is there a consistent number of spawns?
How about pets, as you included? You (the pilot) doesn't pick or control the pet so should they be used? You do decide when Fleet support comes in so is that included even if you don't control it directly?
What about procs? All this other random stuff that just 'happens' (like critical's even) isn't part of piloting. Weapon activation order is decided by you but is that skill?
I ask because I do really truly want to know what people define to be skill and what consequences that has on the impact. I believe piloting to be lots of things, including choice of gear traits and weapon and power activation, but I don't include pets, but would include where you place a fleet support.