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Today we'll be going with the old pattern of graphs and tables.

Below is, first, a comparison on how much firepowers of each nation changed from last week. Such tabulation enables us to see easily the changes in power relations within the world, denoted by change in damage and kills, which are extremely closely correlated with firepower.

Below the comparison is also charted the developments of nations' firepower shares of which surpasses the 2% mark this week, to help contextualize the changes to a bigger picture:

From the two graphs we can again deduce a few things:

- Last week we deduced that the battles between South Korea and Republic of China (Taiwan) had cooled down, as the firepowers of both nations decreased after a heightened bump two weeks ago. However, this week the firepower of South Korea increased dramatically, whereas that of Taiwan's continued to slide downwards from the high two weeks back. This ultimately resulted in South Korea bypassing Taiwan in firepower for the first time in our article series. Yet Taiwan continues to wipe South Korea. But for how long? Interesting times ahead.

- Last week we also reported and hypothetized whether Argentina had reached the bottom of their firepower development following a downslide of few weeks since the end of Asterian South American campaign. This week's ranking shows that this is not the case, as Argentina lost again 0.6%points of its firepower. Will the slide ever end?

Below is the kill tally development:

- As expected, the trend is significantly down from last week's sky high, which can be attributed to the Terrain mayhem resulting in less hits/kill, effectively driving the number of kills upwards (and damage numbers downwards). It is to note, however, that the amount of kills is clearly upwards from the state before terrain mayhem. This increase is completely that of ground kills, air kill number has, in fact, decreased from two weeks back.



On to the MPP graph! Two weeks ago I characterized it that "This MPP graph system is probably the most beloved child of mine. I first came across such data visualisation when Lalo292 presented such diagram in internal Pacifica chat a year back and loved it ever since.

In essence, it includes every MPP in the game between all nations, and locates the nations into a map according to their MPP deck and connections. If a nation is "in between", its MPP deck most probably consists of MPP's of both "sides" in the current alliance system. Every line in the picture denotes a MPP: The size of blobs is determined by their firepower percentage presented elsewhere in this article. The colour of blobs is unique for each alliance. blue is Asteria, green is Pacifica, yellow is Andes, purple is "officially non-aligned", orange is Orion:"

Here is this week's visualization of the situation:

Relative to last week, the map has again flipped upside down (back to the state of two weeks ago), as Norway re-signed MPP's with Brazil. I find it funny that a nation this small has this significant effect to the whole visualization. Other than that, no big change. Pacifica still in the middle.

To complement it, I have mapped the total firepowers of each alliance below:


This week's change would be Pacifica losing a bit ground relatively, and unaffiliated gaining. No big changes anyway.

It is to note that the "unaffiliated" category is not strictly accurate, as the majority of the missing firepowers are usually either in that category or in another small alliances. The jump of unaffiliated from week 3 to week 4 is explained with increase in total firepower accounted for, which jumped from 92% to 96%, effectively explaining the whole increase.

Asteria's and Pacifica's firepowers are, conversely, accurate, as I have got every firepower of their members since the start of this project, so they are comparable. Not much change in this graph compared to last week-


Below, then, are the familiar efficiencies of each nation in deployment. You know the deal, but here's the method just in case:

The following charts are computed simply by comparing the each nations' share of global damage to their firepower. The more a nation produces damage compared to its firepower, the more efficient the nation is on battlefield as a deployment. This is because they offer more damage per firepower than some other nations. Whereas firepowers need to be manually fetched and inquired from many sources, nations' share of (air)damage can easily be obtained by dividing the amount of respective nation's (air)damage with the total amount of total global (air)damage, for ground and air battles respectively. Damage can be fetched from the weekly leaderboards.

GROUND BATTLES

AIR BATTLES

Regarding the development between South Korea and Republic of China (Taiwan), South Korea seems to be concentrating on ground battles on the expense of air battles, whereas Taiwan is stronger on air.

If a nation is not in the dataset, it means that I didn't get its firepower from any source this week. Feel free to PM me your nation's firepower if you so wish. Government members can access it by going to war page and clicking the icon on upper right corner.


For the actual (now much wider!) dataset and other miscellaneous computing, as well as sortable firepowers and data history can be found from this sheet. This week the sheet has 95% of world's firepower accounted for. That's pretty average.

I am indebted to Jordic69, as well as to Colin Lantrip 3, nikol000 and n0s3 for their help with collecting and analyzing the data.

In case you have proposals or ideas what would you like to see in this weekly issue, don't hesitate to PM me. My mailbox is always open for everyone.

See you again next week!
- Caesar