Weekly firepower rankings, Day 3612

Day 3,612, 08:20 • Published in Finland Finland • by TheJuliusCaesar

You know what day is it?

Tuesday, of course, so it is time for the weekly firepower rankings. This week I have something fresh to offer you: It is possible to monitor activity in this game to an extent if we can devise sufficient proxy indicators for it. Military module being the most dominant module in the current state of the game, I am somewhat confident that, for instance, total kills and airkills work as a relatively good indicators of how activity, be it more people hitting or people hitting more. Damage is a good secondary source of data, but it is inevitably skewed more towards strong hitters than mere kills are.

Below are, 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.

FIREPOWER COMPARISON



We can notice a few things, again, from the above table:

- Both in the upper and lower end of the change scale there are a few strong nations experiencing a bigger change in their firepower. Serbia, Romania and Argentina all reached a record firepower last week and are coming down from that.

- In the upper end, then, Chile has been on steady climb for a few weeks now, and Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) faced a bit of an upwards mobility in firepower too.

- Other changes are relatively small this week. Perhaps this has to do how things calmed first in South America in face of Asteria's expulsion and now in Southern Balkans with a NAP between warring Greece, Bulgaria and Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Stay tuned!

Below are charted the developments of nations' firepower shares of which average surpasses the 2% mark, to prevent clogging the graph up completely:

FIREPOWER DEVELOPMENT

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But what's going on with the bigger activity in the game? As mentioned in the introduction, we can measure kills for example, which probably mirror overall activity pretty well:

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The trend is slightly upwards, but we'd probably need more data as the event week was more active than usual.


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


- France continues to dominate the air battles with its efficiency there. Russia has done well too in that regards.


For the actual dataset and other miscellaneous computing, as well as sortable firepowers can be found from this sheet. This week it has 96% of world's firepower accounted for, that's superb. Thank you all!

I am indebted to Jordic69, as well as to Colin Lantrip 3, n0s3, nikol000 and Count Miden 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