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The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« on: May 21, 2017, 04:10:58 pm »
The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
MnB Experts have conducted a study whether ping can predict combat performance. We used a data set from tropical paradise and concluded that an increase in ping by one unit, is (on average) equivalent to K/D decrease of 0.4%.

You can read the whole study here: https://www.docdroid.net/dbo4V0w/expertsss.pdf.html

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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2017, 10:39:53 pm »
That referencing is shite. Use harvard next time.

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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2017, 10:40:55 pm »
That referencing is shite. Use havard next time.

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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2017, 10:41:15 pm »
fuck mathematics

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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2017, 10:42:55 pm »
That referencing is shite. Use harvard next time.

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At least quote the truth, you poor educated scrub!

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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2017, 10:05:02 am »
tropical paradise seemsgood

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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2017, 01:14:46 am »
Imagine doing your dissertation on this
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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2017, 01:15:37 am »
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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2017, 01:20:12 am »
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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2017, 09:38:34 am »
Now, consider this:

So the data wasw collected from the Tropical Paradise server. TP is hosted in Europe. That means that non-europeans were by far the largest group of high-pingers (the amount of people with a really shitty connection excluded, they're an insignificant group).

Now, those non-euro's will, for the large majority, be Americans.

You haven't then ruled out another explanation to the performance difference. It might be that the Americans are just not very good at the game? One would have to compare the K/D of TP with a comparable All-american server and see if the K/D's differ.
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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2017, 10:42:13 am »
EU >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NA

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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2017, 12:34:50 pm »
i don't know if it's still available, but in old times, with more than 60 ping, you have ability to downblock and kick in the same move.

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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2017, 04:10:31 pm »
You haven't then ruled out another explanation to the performance difference. It might be that the Americans are just not very good at the game? One would have to compare the K/D of TP with a comparable All-american server and see if the K/D's differ.

Good point. This does also mean that my sample is biased in a sense that more Europeans than Americans were included. However, I do not see a compelling reason why Americans should necessarily perform worse than Europeans in this game. I regard it as more likely that "player skill" is distributed rather randomly accross nations. Nonetheless, I agree that there might be some unobserved causality that creates a bias.

Correcting for such an issue might be difficult. We would never find out whether Americans are worse because of high ping, or because of being American (while having a high ping). One would need to bring a group of Americans to Europe in order to test their skills in a low ping environment and vice versa. Unfortunately, Mount and Blade ExpertSSSS are currently too underfunded to conduct a project of this magnitude

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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2017, 04:37:36 pm »
Maybe do the same test on Groupfighting? Results would certainly be interesting.
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Re: The Effect of Ping on Combat Performance
« Reply #14 on: May 29, 2017, 04:41:03 pm »
Maybe do the same test on Groupfighting? Results would certainly be interesting.

I think the results would depend on skill, perhaps why they chose Tropical Paradise  ::)