BStaude wrote: ↑11 May 2023, 02:25
sorryimlikethis, what a haymaker! Your reply floored him 4 months ago and he's yet to regain consciousness. Darn near banished him to the shadow realm!
This sounds borderline offensive.
The user you're insulting stopped replying simply because the user you're idolising, was... a tad offensive, to begin with?
I mean, there were many replies (and counter-replies) and only his and Fletcheese's were a tad offensive.
Why was there a need to compare the % of wins or for those shady "350 games" or "7th. attempt" things?
Or for those "wake up!" or "ridiculous"?
I would rather call that an offensively presented data, not just data.
Same as if I now say that the guy asking those questions has a lower ELO than SluggerBaloney, regardless of the % of wins; moreover, the % of wins can be pulled down if one is playing & winning training mode games, by the nr. of wins staying the same, while the nr. of games played going +1.
So one might argue that the % of wins might be less important than the ELO, given this "training-mode games" handicap.
I agree and disagree with SluggerBaloney.
The game is not same-level-luck, as Can't Stop or Backgammon; in Backgammon, avid players say there are thousands and thousands of books written about its strategy, but for me, it's a lot more luck; same as in Love Letter: some Arena winner in a season kept praising the game for its... supreme strategic power, but that player hasn't even made top 10 since then; so again, another luck-based game that people tend to over-inflate.
As Balloney put it, if the players in a Wingspan game are the same level (skill-wise), the luck is what makes the difference.
And sometimes, you simply can't win, no matter what, which is established almost from the start.
These things cannot happen in Chess or Puerto Rico, or even 7 Wonders, for instance.
Or are less extreme, like in Tokaido, where you can improvise.
So yeah... I have >80% win rate in this Wingspan Mumbo Jumbo, I also play & win training mode games (that are counted as losses, so my % of Wingspan wins decreases), and I still say that most of what SluggerBaloney said, is perhaps a bit exaggerated, but true: including the ego and all those other stuff.
I'm sorry I'm the only one with this pessimistic opinion.