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Death Analytics! Who is most likely to kill you
Hello fellow Angbanders!
I've continued to analyze the character dumps on the ladder, focussing on which monsters cause players to die. I've done this by looking at the "Last Messages" section of the dumps, and identifying which monster names are listed, and listing those which were taking action. (i.e. had a word implying action after their name, such as "hits", "bites", "breathes", "casts", "magically", "summons", etc). This means I've captured a broader range of monsters involved when a player dies, and not just the one that delivered the final blow. It does mean some monsters playing a 'minor role' in a player death could be over-emphasized, but this doesn't appear to have affected the top charts).
I've normalized the results by class popularity, so even if one class was played more than other classes, and was particularly vulnerable to some monsters, this does not skew the results.
The results will be skewed by the likelihood of encountering some monsters in the first place, and the likelihood of dumps being uploaded the ladder.
Deaths from "it", "something", hunger and poison are not shown. ("it" and "something" topped the charts until I removed them)
I've shown breakdowns per class, so you can identify which monsters pose the gravest threat to your character!
I've saved the results as a single-file webpage, it doesn't open nicely from a straight click, you need to Save As and then open in a browser once downloaded.
File is here
In case anyone struggles with that, Ive also cobbled it together as a large PNG image. It's here
I've continued to analyze the character dumps on the ladder, focussing on which monsters cause players to die. I've done this by looking at the "Last Messages" section of the dumps, and identifying which monster names are listed, and listing those which were taking action. (i.e. had a word implying action after their name, such as "hits", "bites", "breathes", "casts", "magically", "summons", etc). This means I've captured a broader range of monsters involved when a player dies, and not just the one that delivered the final blow. It does mean some monsters playing a 'minor role' in a player death could be over-emphasized, but this doesn't appear to have affected the top charts).
I've normalized the results by class popularity, so even if one class was played more than other classes, and was particularly vulnerable to some monsters, this does not skew the results.
The results will be skewed by the likelihood of encountering some monsters in the first place, and the likelihood of dumps being uploaded the ladder.
Deaths from "it", "something", hunger and poison are not shown. ("it" and "something" topped the charts until I removed them)
I've shown breakdowns per class, so you can identify which monsters pose the gravest threat to your character!
I've saved the results as a single-file webpage, it doesn't open nicely from a straight click, you need to Save As and then open in a browser once downloaded.
File is here
In case anyone struggles with that, Ive also cobbled it together as a large PNG image. It's here
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