Statistical Map Research

Hey guys,

I'm starting a project to statistically research map experience gain and map drops and I need your help to accumulate data.

The data accumulated so far is available here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvSHrzEQ02ZBdHIxcHBCUkZCRlhXWUNuVVNjeUJGa0E

The objective is to answer questions like:

-How much exp does a map usually give?
-Do certain maps usually give more exp than others?
-How much more exp does "larger area" affix usually give?
-What about "larger pack size"? What about maze affix?
-How many map drops do maps usually give?
-How does map item quantity bonus influence that?
-Do certain affixes influence map drops or not?
-Does the affix "more rare monsters" help climbing up the map ladder?
-etc etc...

In order to get relevant indicators, I need lots of data of map runs and that's where I need your help. If you could send me some info that would help speed up the process of reaching enough data to draw some conclusions.

If you would like to help me, send me a PM or post here under with the following info whenever you run a map:

-Player level:
-Player exp before running the map:
-Player exp after running the map:
-Player item quantity bonus %:
-Map name:
-Map level:
-Map +size bonus % : if any
-Map +monster pack size bonus % : if any
-Map +magic monsters bonus %: if any
-Map +rare monsters bonus %: if any
-Map is a maze: yes/no
-Map has the "2 unique bosses" affix: yes/no
-Map has a inhabited by special affix: plz record skeletons/bandits/seawitches/ranged/undead/goatmen/manytotems/monstervariety
-Map +item quantity bonus % :
-How many maps and which level maps dropped:

ps: do not send me info if you leveled or died during a map, it would compromise the data
ps2: send me all and any map you run, do not only send me your best runs where you've had 5 or so maps dropped, it would only compromise the data

I will update this sheet with more indicators as the data accumulate. It doesnt make much sense yet at this point.

Thanks & keep bashing!

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Joel_GGG wrote:

Great project, I look forward to the results!

Just as a heads up for the 0.10.0 Open Beta version some maps are slightly modified, and some added (in 0.10.0 or shortly after). Also the order of some are changed and a couple removed.

lol - in other words, dont bother till ob, as enough seems to be changed, that results wont be valid.

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Joel_GGG wrote:

Great project, I look forward to the results!

Just as a heads up for the 0.10.0 Open Beta version some maps are slightly modified, and some added (in 0.10.0 or shortly after). Also the order of some are changed and a couple removed.

I'm sure you just started a complete cluster@~#% in some people's minds by making these comments. lol.

Bookmarked!

An excellent community project idea. You've been busy I see, 60 map runs already :) I level up alts more often than run maps, but I'll be contributing to this project whenever I do.

You can see how posting the map run data in forum thread goes, but it may be a good idea to set up some way to send spreadsheets- could even post a template for doing so. Creating an email address specifically for the project would work, but there may be a more creative way of doing it.

You can make your own copy of the spreadsheet in your own google drive to accumulate some data then maybe send/share it back to me once you feel you have enough data and I'll merge everything in.

We can chat in the google spreadsheet innate chat if you have questions etc

ps @JoelGGG: Thanks for the heads up, I guess I'll add a PoE version field in my data so that we can filter old data in the future

It may be beneficial to say, that if you guys all have Microsoft One Note. You can store the notebook on Microsoft's Sky Drive and all edit it at once in real time. It will automatically update, and next time you open up One Note it will automatically pull any data down from the cloud so that it's viewable with who edited what.

Have I mentioned Microsoft One Note is my favorite Office application ever? lol

This can very easily be done with Googledocs too Elynole. I'm just afraid people would screw the data if I give write permission to everyone. But I'll surely give it out to people who've proven to be reliable contributors :)

ps: this is still work in progress, I'll see if I can lock some of the data cells to make it "screw-proof"

Also isn't the player quantity bonus irrelevant to map drops in a map? Pretty sure GGG changed this in an update a while back. Only the map quantity bonus matters, yes?

EDIT: same with the party quantity bonus, it doesn't apply to map drops.

I also heard that item bonus quantity doesnt matter anymore but it's always interresting to have that info to eventually confirm it empirically :)

It might be interresting to use these 10 days remaining before open beta to think about what other information could influence the research. I was thinking maybe the "Map contains two unique bosses" would be interresting to gather to correlate with +2 level map drops.