EVE General Discussion

+1 to GG for an entertaining thread.

Update: added rats killed for alliances that had Sov in 2015. The result is that the renters and some Southern Russians killed stupid amount of rats compared to their losses: http://greedygoblin.blogspot.hu/2016/02/the-imperium-is-safest-place-to-rat.html

It's impossible, because it's not enough to just code and host a killboard (enormous work), but you need API keys from players to have data. Do you have any idea how to get those?

You don;t actually. Zkb provide an API, so you could just build a kb that recalculates their data automatically. Plus hopefully CCP will be spitting all kills out on crest before too long.

You'll still have the problem though that without the context of each and every kill, it will be impossible to accurately (or even remotely in the ballpark) convert raw numbers into player skill.

But they don't. Killboards show you how good you are at increasing killboard stats, that is all. You can kill dumb ratters till the cows come home and get trillions on the killboard, and yet the guy that drops a single strategic asset is automatically better at destroying the enemy.

The thing is, you're not a dumb guy, so I think you know this. I think you know that the only reason you put so much focus on killboard numbers is because that's the only thing moa are good at so it makes you feel like you're backing the right horse. Unfortunately no matter how many ratters they kill they'll never win doing it, all they do is raise the average skill level of the players in our group by weeding out the week.

If moa ceased to exist and the next group you picked weren't hunting ratters, and were good at taking down moons, or temporarily flipping stations or sov, those would suddenly become the metrics by which everything should be measured and killboard stats would become irrelevant. This is why stats you produce are meaningless, because they are cherry picked and analysed in a way that supports you. Real statistics don't need to be pushed or manipulated into conclusions, they speak them loudly on their own.

tbh the killboard analysis are boring, and near useless to someone who read your blog as a trader...

Posing as someone's alt is against the TOS

Good thing noone is posing as anyone's alt. I have it on good authority (i.e. straight from CCP) though that claiming that someone else is some other persons alt is not against the EULA/TOS, so be quiet Aryth.