recipes page: impact?

Started by LennStar

admin Staff Lv 1

Impact is a rudimentary measure of the effect a macro has on the score. I'm afraid it was expressed in different units than the game score; this has now been fixed. The measure will be explained once it is improved. Until then, I might hide it entirely to save confusion.

LennStar Lv 1

because there are macros that

  • aren't there for score gain (or don't do it in themselves)
  • use different methods
  • with different size of the macro

e.g. You can use the same macro with click-start-click-start-click-start or you have an entry "wait for user click" that would work start-click-click-click - thats just a matter of what you like more.

I don't think that score makes any sense for downloaders. Perphaps for the scripters in test of different versions of their script with minimal changes, but that is the only point where I can see that is could be at least a bit useful.

Crashguard303 Lv 1

@LennStar:
I think the av. score CAN show, how effective a macro is, BUT it depends on the puzzle.
If a player uses a macro on the wrong puzzle, it will be crushed, dropping the av. impact value.

Crashguard303 Lv 1

At this point, I give the idea to calculate the average impact with the RMS method.
Maybe with one calculating window, using all values, and another, respecting only the last x actions,
or show minimum, maximum and average RMS.

Deleted user

It's nice to have the clickable headings for sorting.

However, if "Player" heading is clicked, the data all disappears. It re-appears if one of the other headings is clicked.

Crashguard303 Lv 1

How about checking, if the macro was run completely and not cancelled, to get more reliable impact score?
Or you can simply watch and compare the "very best score"-content before and after the script to get a more valuable impact data.