Reply: Terraforming Mars:: General:: Re: Ratings for hybrid games

by DaveD

AronFJenks wrote:

DaveD wrote:

Xaqery wrote:

DaveD wrote:

This effectively already exists, in the user voting for different numbers of players, which includes 1. Currently 81% of 746 users voting say Terraforming Mars is Best or Recommended as a solo game.

You are correct. That should be good enough.

But what I see is not 81% this is what I see when I go to Terraforming Mars:

     Best	        Recommended	Not Recommended	Vote Count
1	14.2% (106)	66.8% (499)	19.0% (142)	747
2	22.7% (202)	67.0% (596)	10.3% (92)	890
3	66.0% (599)	31.5% (286)	2.4% (22)	907
4	47.0% (408)	45.9% (399)	7.1% (62)	869
5	6.8% (52)	38.7% (297)	54.5% (418)	767

14.2%+66.8%=81% taking the numbers for a single player, there being 746 voters when I looked previously (747 when you looked)

Dude, What ??


Why would you add the 14% to anything? 14% is terrible. There's no mathematical or logical reason to add the 14.2 to the 66.8.


the 66.8 percent represents that 2/3 of voters recommend the solo version. Adding the terribly low rating of 14.2% who consider it "best" results in a terribly misleading number of 81%.


Obviously the 14% of people who said that solo mode is "best" are also included in the 66.8% who recommend playing it solo. You can't just add those together. That's redundant and utter nonsense.


What if 35% had said solo is "best" Would you add that to the 66.8% and say that 101.8% said it was "best or recommended" ??

If you look at the poll, you are only allowed to select 1 option for each player number, therefore the 14% voting Best can not be included in the recommended numbers there are 747 voters all of which must come from different accounts. If you look at the percentages they are

Best 14.2%
Recommended 66.8%
Not recommended 19%

Add them up and they come to 100%. The other player counts also add up to 100%.

Look at all the other player counts