New project thoughts

[Questor]

I've been thinking about going back and finishing off some of my statistics from TNG, DS9, and SW, this summer, but am interested in what people would find the most interesting/useful. I've put up a poll to find out. I will be finishing my phaser reaction stats for DS9, and if I can find my copy of The Imperial Sourcebook, I will finish my Imperial Army/Stormtrooper calcs.

SW Blaster Statistics would be similar to my phaser stats, but for Star Wars weapons.

SW Ship to Ship Stats would be an examination of SW ship to ship combat, focused on accuracy, but also including other data as I think of it, or it is suggested.

ST Ship to Ship Stats would be the same thing, for Star Trek. This is a much bigger project, so it would take much longer, but I think the data would be interesting to have.

I could actually probably do the first two at the same time, but am interested in hearing your opinions.

Does anyone else have any suggestions for statistical data from ST shows / SW movies?

[Questor]

Another thought just came to me, though it is less appealing, simply due to the fact that I think the statistics will be less interesting:

BSG Ship to ship stats

SG1/Atlantis Hand weapon stats

SG1/Atlantis Ship to ship stats

[Ender]

I find the quality of your work to be rather poor - overly simplistic, limited in scope, and ignores other ways of doing things.

So do SW ship to ship, and I will see you in the Coliseum to defend your conclusions.

[Questor]

I find the quality of your work to be rather poor - overly simplistic, limited in scope, and ignores other ways of doing things.

So do SW ship to ship, and I will see you in the Coliseum to defend your conclusions.

Which parts don't you like? I'd like to improve.

[Ender]

I find the quality of your work to be rather poor - overly simplistic, limited in scope, and ignores other ways of doing things.

So do SW ship to ship, and I will see you in the Coliseum to defend your conclusions.

Which parts don't you like? I'd like to improve.

*failure to consider more then one source
*failure to distinguish by role
*failure to account for local fleets
*failure to account for the canon number of sectors
*failure to justify assumptions
*failure to factor in other designs
*failure to differentiate by size
etc

As far as I can tell, your entire analysis of the Imperial Navy consisted of adding together everything the Imperial sourcebook says... and that's it. Don't look at anything else. Not even the other WEG books. You don't take into account canon figures, and you make unjustified assumptions to get your figures rather then extrapolating the known and accepting less precise but more supported figures. Hell, sort by mass/power/volume, plot the points by known production figure on the X and the other trend on the Y, perform regressive analysis to get the curve, and integrate for a given range. Presto you get the number of craft the Empire had within that range. And as data accumulates you refine the model. Your method aims for hard and fast numbers the first go and precludes a refinement model and as a result is more limited in scope. The functions lets me have an approximate number of a given class as well. Can your method tell me how many TIEs there were? And that is just one bit.


So like I said - I find your methodology flawed and your conclusions follow from that. I still encourage you to do ship to ship. We can make a coliseum match out of it. Lord knows it has been a while since we had a proper sci-fi tech debate.

[Jericho Kross]

Ship to ship for SW mainly because I would like to see some stats that are easy to find for V.S. debates with friends.

[phred]

SW Ship to Ship just to see if your work is as truly horrific as Ender claims.

Although I would like to see Stargate ship to ship stats too. Im just now getting into that series a bit more thoroughly than watching an episode whenever its on at my friends house.