Profile of Spinflight

Very interesting Storm...

Are any of the wrecks you see on maps savlageable? Did a search and found some references, but also some patch notes saying they'd been removed.

"It's not about winrates or anything like that, those kinds of stats need to be aggregated across the entire playerbase because you need a huge sample to see anything useful. And winrate stats are very good at telling you a problem exists but very bad at telling you what the problem actually is, or how you would go about fixing it. For those answers you really need players who have a very deep understanding of the game."

In the hypothetical example I posted it was for the entire playerbase, rather than the top150 or 250.

I agree that diagnosing the problem might be problematic however that is why I asked you what winrate difference between the Brits and other faction you would consider to be acceptable across the entire player base.

Or Ostheer etc... What figure would you put on it? 48-52? 49-51??

Currently coh2charts is showing the Brits on .58 compared to the Soviets .72. This however is not terribly useful as all factions show that the top150 players win more than 50% of the time.

Across the entire playerbase win rates other than .5 would indicate either imbalance of that one faction is more difficult to play than others. This too would be acceptable if top players were able to get good results from it, would just make it a faction that required more skill to use.

So as you are a coder show us the stats and let us make our own minds up... As I say total for all 1v1 plus total for ranks 5 and under, 10 and under etc.

Would be useful for nubbinses like me any and I'm sure Relic would approve if it turned out that US was the easiest to play until level x etc as it would likely result in more faction and commander sales.

Bit like chess, different openings ( factions, build order and commanders in COH2) will work for different levels of ability.

Surely the top players would be more likely to exploit imbalance than report it?

I have no idea who the top players are but my suspicion would be that competitive players who can't quite make the top X positions would be the ones moaning and whingeing about balance.

Clearly if taking the most successful players only into consideration they rather like the game balance as it is, else they wouldn't be winning.

I don't understand it myself, especially as a business model.

It appears that only 22% of games played are 1v1. Which sounds like about 5% of player base playing 1v1 at any time. Balancing that for only the top 1% of players makes about as much sense as try to sell a word processor which only supports the Welsh language.

If I have read the tone and content of the posts which seek to prioritise 1v1 balance for the top players correctly then this only relates to a tiny percentage of all games played.

Not sure about 4v4 etc but the problem I find when I build a HMG 1v1 is that the axis player just avoids it like the plague, which is great for VP control early on but it doesn't really earn me command points. I usually build a trench or two ready to take the free HMG but roaming IS or just pushing forward seems to get me those points more quickly. Hitting that 4cp with munitions in the bank as early as possible is vital.

Might try building a Pak early to compliment the free one. As soon as he sees trenches they seem to either bring or mortar up or rush a light vehicle.

Also crewing the free pak with IS with enhanced sight range seems to make them much more effective, though a bit pricier than engies.

Did try various aggressive mortar placements hoping they could survive but not much luck there..

I'm rubbish with snipers but only noticed the other night that they get to call in the base arty too. Wondering whether hold fire and just using them to scout for the mortar pit might work. Is the axis player informed when you've thrown a flare? I'm thinking if they go mortar and just set it up out of my sight range they might just leave it and micro elsewhere, in which case the sniper might get to call in arty on top of them and then finish off anyone not killed by the fires. Or call in arty on their retreat path maybe whilst the mortar does it's job?

The response time for the base arty is criminally bad, but only the first time you use it. Think the guns have to train or something. Second time is much more useable though does impinge on your munitions quite heavily.

I'm starting to think that forward retreat point is more important than a mortar pit but haven't really tested it yet and 450 manpower might well be too much in the earlyish game. Or rather have and have lost it quickly. Nor the bofors. Think they have more hp than a mortar pit and would counter light vehicles in the centre of the map without the naff minimum range.