First Round 5th Quest Results!

[Gleeok]

Okay, here we go.


Combined overall ratings: (Thanks CJC)

1. MischaPetya (86.67 + 88 + 73) = 247.67/3 = 82.5567
2. BigJoe (86.67 + 90 + 60 + 92) = 328.67/4 = 82.1675
3. Nightmare (73 + 82 + 83 + 67 + 85) = 390/5 = 78
4. Love For Fire (71.3HM + 82 + 80) = 233.3/3 = 77.7667 (1 HM)
5. Chris Miller (80 + DNF + 90 + 85 + 53 + 77) = 385/5 = 77 (1 DNF)
6. QuestWizard (DNF + DNF + 76 + DNF) = 76 (3 DNF)
7. CJC (59.3HM + HM + HM + 81.4 + 75) = 215.7/3 = 71.9 (3 HM)
8. Imzogelmo (67.6HM + HM + 66 + 77.2 + 70) = 280.8/4 = 70.2 (2 HM)
9. HeroOfFire (73 + 60 + 81 + 45.6 + 87) = 346.6/5 = 69.32
10. Shoelace (HM + 65.6 + HM + HM +73) = 138.6/2 = 69.3 (3 HM)
11. Scootaloo (66 + 68.4 + DNF) = 134.4/2 = 67.2 (1 DNF)
12. Nethis (59.67 + 68 + 68.4 + 64) = 260.07/4 = 65.0175
13. PeteAndWally (HM + 60 + 60) = 120/2 = 60 (1 HM)
14. Dcsyxx (46.67 + 66.4 + 62) = 175.07/3 = 58.3567
15. T. McSwain (57.2) = 57.2
16. ZCFan (DNF + DNF + DNF + 42) = 42 (3 DNF)
17. Travster (DNF + 64.4 + 18) = 82.4/2 = 41.2 (1 DNF)
18. BTJCraft (33.3 + 60HM + DNF + 44.8 + 25) = 163.1/4 = 40.775 (1 HM 1 DNF)
19. Sylph (DNF) = (1 DNF)

The main problems with calculating combined ratings is simply this: One persons ratings may not be comparable to another persons rating of that same quest. In addition, quests completed by one person will differ from that of others, and ratings may have been scored based on other quests' ratings that person has given and not from some universal archetypal rating system that God gave Moses on some giant stone slabs. Not to mention there was the (to be expected, of course) "gave up on this quest for various reasons" factor.

So what I've done here is to try and present the data in some meaningful way, in order of most accurate to least accurate. Only the data for the top 9 quests are given here, if for no other reason than it would of taken me twice as long to do all of them. (There was also less data available as you go down the list which makes it less reliable as raw statistics.)


First table represents the placement of each quest (ratings be damned!) given by those who scored them, in a rough approximation of 1st through 9th. This turns out to be more accurate than simply combining ratings. Smaller numbers are better. Numbers on the left-side are more reliable:

(side note* if the vb code tags are too ugly to read you may have to highlight the text with your mouse. I do)

BigJoe:         1, 1, 1, 10
MischaPetya:    2, 2, 3
Chris Miller:   3, 3, 3, 4, 12, (1)
Hero Of Fire    4, 6, 1, 2, 13, (6)
Nightmare:      4, 2, 8, 3, (2)
Love For Fire:  5, 5, 4
Imzogelmo:      6, 6, 2, 7, (4)
Nethis:         7, 7, 5, 8, (3)
CJC:            8, 4, 5, 1

If we average these into a nice-and-neat single number we get the following:

BigJoe:         3.2 (2.0)
MischaPetya:    2.3 (2.1)
Chris Miller:   4.3 (3.3)
Hero Of Fire    5.3 (4.0)
Nightmare:      3.8 (4.0)
Love For Fire:  4.6 (3.8)
Imzogelmo:      5.0 (4.8)
CJC:            4.5 (5.8)
Nethis:         6.0 (6.2)

Now if you are paying attention thus far you probably noticed two things: Some of the first set of numbers seems skewed from the rest, and there are two sets of averages instead of one. This is because I weighted the DNF and 'divergent' ratings to get a slightly more accurate norm. This produces the second number inside parenthesis.

Recalculated ratings (extrapolated from the previous table and averaged with overall rating; [((100-(n-1)*10) + r) / 2)] this produces a better 'relational' overall rating than the last table. (Note* these are not accurate as stand-alone ratings so don't feel sad that they taper off quickly. aka; don't get butt-hurt )

BigJoe:         86.06
MischaPetya:    85.77
Chris Miller:   77
Love For Fire:  74.88
Nightmare:      74
Hero Of Fire    70
Imzogelmo:      66.1
CJC:            61.95
Nethis:         56.6

This gives us a top six of:
BigJoe
MischaPetya
Chris Miller
Love For Fire
Nightmare
Hero Of Fire


Whew!

Worth mentioning here is the clusterfuck of good quests from the 7th spot down to the 12th. These were Imzoglemo, CJC, Scootaloo, Shoelace, Nethis, and Questwizard. These were all very well done quests in their own right, but fell short of top-tier when compared to the finalists. The two most underplayed of these are probably Questwizards and Scootaloo's quest.

People seemed to have extreme difficulty with Questwizards; (which I played BTW--I win, you lose! ) difficulty spikes. These even out over time, but are a little out-of-control for a while. Too bad; there's some a good ol' fashioned ass-kickin' and brawling in this one!
Scootaloo's was another underplayed quest with lots of good ideas and some innovation, but people were a perhaps a little too critical of the new sprites. A good quest that I even contributed a script for but I couldn't place it above a few others in the list.


Another thing worth mentioning here is that, say you were to make it a top 7 list. What would you add? -Pretty hard to pick just one more, huh? Or, what about removing one more. Which one? They're all pretty good. It's really tough. That's why I think 6 is a good fit for this list here.

So that's that. I'm sure people are going to want to rant about it so now's yer chance.


If anyone has any reason why these quest authors shouldn't be wed in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace!