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my first conclusions regarding some AWdata collected were made after 100 attempts,
later I moved to 250, and I have to admit, 250 was a better choice,
and ideal is ~1000 at least in my opinion ( and I know what means 1000 to determine average for something )

I wish I could be more helpful in your journey, but I don't dare to step outside terminals/Sar-store for some obvious reasons some of the players mentioned here, like skill loss, stupid bugs, annoying black crashes, the almighty blue sky, and....UFO chalange


cheers

IMHO - the new FPS theme will encourage (force?) players to kill many thousands of creatures.
So eventually, over the many 100's of hours need to skill up on weapons, the data will be collected by each player.
Eventually, after 12 - 24 months of this effort, a player will have collected enough data about most creatures loot and loot ratios.

The risk is, that after this huge effort is spent, DL will decided to change loot ratios / loot given.

Try importing the file as TAB delimited.
(if you want to have it comma delimited - you will need to go into the Settings > Filters option and change the Output Fields for the loot rows from [tab] to ,)

Ahhh - I see, the data extract is fine. You are having trouble presenting the data.

First - I would recommend you use the standard filters in the original Settings.xml file. I specifically made these very generic to maximize the reuse of the data extracted.

Second - A little excel magic will automate most of your tasks to get this:


I have created something similar in Google Sheets to give you an idea of how to achieve this: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pzuBbB5rqrc87cd1htkFrm1S0iPO9O-MyBiGP4Do45o&authuser=0

Again, I would like to stress that my extract tool is for extracting data. The analysis and presentation side is a separate task which is left to the community as there are a myriad of ways of doing this.

IMHO - the new FPS theme will encourage (force?) players to kill many thousands of creatures.
So eventually, over the many 100's of hours need to skill up on weapons, the data will be collected by each player.
Eventually, after 12 - 24 months of this effort, a player will have collected enough data about most creatures loot and loot ratios.

The risk is, that after this huge effort is spent, DL will decided to change loot ratios / loot given.

Ewww - there are currently 281 creatures of different type/maturity.


Lets say you measure loot frequency in 5 bands (30% been common, 1% being rare) - you will need to record at least 1000 kills that have loot to get the volume of info required to accurately determine which band loot falls into per creature-maturity (and with the no-loot rule set at about 40% - this could mean up to 1600 kills to get 1000 successful loots).


So you will need to kill, say ... 460000 creatures to get a full set of statistics.


At 12 creatures per hour (once you get past the beginner creatures finding and killing creatures fast than 5 minutes per creature is unlikely) - you'll be busy for the next 38000 hours (= 9500 days at 4 hours per day = 26 years). And even if the kill rate is a lot higher than 12 - the task is still unbelievable.


I think you may need a lot of help ... say a few thousand players at level 40 weapons skills wearing high armor spending 10 days killing creatures at ant below their experience level.