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Browder Calculates Balance, Overturns Mathematics - Page 2

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arsenic United States163 Posts November 11 2011 06:00 GMT #21 Hilarious.

Fuhrmaaj 167 Posts November 11 2011 07:14 GMT #22 Overall it was pretty funny and 5/5. As I was telling Dusty at Blizzcon (or D-Brow, as his friends prefer to call him), he actually does have three equations: one for each race. ax^(1+k) + by = r a = coefficient of skill (amount of skill that the game should be balanced on) b = coefficient of balance (amount of skew in game design towards racial balance) x = player skill y = racial balance k = constant which describes how players of higher skill can better exploit their race r = actual win ratio He has a y and r for each race, and an x for each player. You can determine relative skill against players of the same race and use ratios to solve for y. In his equation, 0<x<4 and 0<y<20/3 but I'm not sure if I agree with the constants he chose. Hopefully he sees this. Hey, what was that equation you stuck on? It looks like particle physics or something. I don't know how useful that will be for game balance

The_Templar your Country52798 Posts November 11 2011 13:43 GMT #23 Genius, good sir. y=5, x=1.

Hesmyrr Canada5776 Posts November 11 2011 14:34 GMT #24 Earthbreaking blog. 5/5

darmousseh United States3437 Posts November 11 2011 16:28 GMT #25 I've researched this problem and commented a few months ago. Mmr is a function of both mean and deviation and its possible to determine the value of each race if you can isolate certain variables. Send me a pm and ill send you more information on the math. Edit; its called bayesian appriximation. You can read about it in this link. http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume12/weng11a/weng11a.pdf

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