Dear Rory

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NeroNoah написал:

Also, what about Neonspyder, a.k.a. Mark 2?

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raics написал:

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NeroNoah написал:

Also, what about Neonspyder, a.k.a. Mark 2?

What, you think it's his fault again?

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NeroNoah написал:

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raics написал:

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NeroNoah написал:

Also, what about Neonspyder, a.k.a. Mark 2?

What, you think it's his fault again?

No, I thought that he plays a lot even outside work, but I can't remember where I read that, so feel free to correct me. My mind plays me tricks, I'm old, ):

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mark1030 написал:

So does the person making prosthetic limbs need to be an amputee to be able to make good ones, or is feedback/data enough?

Do people designing space stations need to fly to space and live in one to do a good job, or is feedback/data enough?

People are able to do jobs all the time without relying on personal experience to do them. We have men ob/gyn doctors who can never be pregnant. We have morticians who have never died embalming dead people.

If the devs spent all their time playing, they'd never get any work done. How many hours have you played? How many keystones have you not taken? Amd you expect a dev to play every build and every keystone and still have time to work?

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ScrotieMcB написал:

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raics написал:

Look at Blood Magic keystone, data says it is being used but it won't tell you it isn't being used for its original purpose at all.

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allbusiness написал:

GGG can see that everyone used CWDT+IC+EC before. Statistically it should say 'nerf this because it's being utilized far too much.'

I thought I made it clear that mere popularity is irrelevant. It is average performance which matters. This is a hugely important distinction!

And sorry, raics, but it doesn't much matter how people get a thing to work. If it works, it works. Working isn't underpowered.

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allbusiness написал:

why everyone was using RM? Because auras are immensely far too strong, and that stacking multiple auras together yields far too many rewards (it is a major reason why LL with Shavs is so ridiculously crazy good, as you can stack a few auras on life, while a few other can be put on mana). Only ingame experience can tell you that, numbers can't tell you that.

Actually, I think common sense would tell you that. No experience required.

The one thing I should emphasize is that while I believe performance data to be supremely valid as a diagnostic tool, it grants no particular insight into how to actually solve balance problems. I do not mean to say a designer wouldn't learn their own game better by playing it. What I am saying is that there is a separation between the questions "How do I fix this?" and "Does this need fixing?" and that statistics, not personal experience, is the best way to answer the latter question, despite being utterly useless in regard to the former question.

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mark1030 написал:

So does the person making prosthetic limbs need to be an amputee to be able to make good ones, or is feedback/data enough?

Do people designing space stations need to fly to space and live in one to do a good job, or is feedback/data enough?

People are able to do jobs all the time without relying on personal experience to do them. We have men ob/gyn doctors who can never be pregnant. We have morticians who have never died embalming dead people.

If the devs spent all their time playing, they'd never get any work done. How many hours have you played? How many keystones have you not taken? And you expect a dev to play every build and every keystone and still have time to work?