Question about EA Tir Na N'og

[Torgon]

Originally Posted by Colonial

Thats a bit daft from the perspective of a bunch of MP players. Don't rightly care if I get hammers or not SP .


@ Torgon:

I reckon the fact that they pay clever people full time to modal one system would be evedance of how unrealistic it would be to accurately modal another system without in entire corporate R&D department or think tank at out disposal :P

I have a personal pet pieve with people imposing economic/statistical models where they don't fit. I studied history at univerisy and that discipline is full of instances of people trying to study an economic history without re-evaluating econ's basic assumptions. so they end up analysing renaissance trade, for example, while assuming shipping costs are zero (which works in a modern, oil-feuled, context). But of course in reality renaissance shipping costs were on the order of 350% .

Haha... Totally agree. A huge number of economists are idiots. I guess I got way too mathy in trying to explain what I was asking for. What I really wanted was realtive comparisons rather than absolute comparisons. The last few posts have provided that. Now I'm happy. Didn't really want or need a mathematical disseration, just used a mathematical dissertation to try to explain why simply giving an absolute statement "thugs are worse off after hammers" doesn't really help. A relative statement "Thugs are much worse off than SCs, and here is why: thugs require a massing strategy and are thus more gem/forging intensive than SCs" is helpful.