>um wrong, common error. the 4% is out of 2000 people playing at the time.
>the 7% was out of 38000 or so people playing at the time. percentages are
>hard numbers if you relate them to the same or comparable things. In this
>case both are related to the number of people playing at a specific time.
Um, duh. The common error here is that you are relating 4% bards to being
the same as 7% pvp. If there were only two classes to choose from then your
analogy would be appropriate. Since there are 13 other choices however, it
is not.
>no, we're talking about the big picture here. just because there are more
choices
>doesn't make one minority any less significant than another.
Totally and completely untrue. The number of choices directly affects the
significance of any minority percentage. This is true both statistically,
analytically, and practically.
>this has nothing to do with my point, which was that you cannot selectively
disregard
>small segments of the population in an mmorpg because EVERYONE is part of a
small
>segment of the population. just because it doesn't affect YOU doesn't mean
it isn't
>important.
That's only true if the opposing segments are of equal size. When bards are
a 4% segment out of 14 unallied segments none totaling over 15% they are
significant. When pvp is 7% out of two total segments where the other
segment is 93% they are insignificant. To balance the effects on the whole
population of anything because of the effect on that 7% is patently unsound.
>If a lot of people don't know all that bards can do, then a major reason
there aren't >more
>bards would be ignorance, not some ''underpoweredness'' to the class. i
agree that >...
>what bards can do don't want to work that hard when they are playing a
game.
Not likely. The reason more people don't play them is because the return on
the work invested is not proportionate. Unless you truly enjoy the actual
work involved, there is no reason to play a bard. Some people do enjoy the
constant challenge despite the fact it is not rewarded equivalently to the
lesser challenges of other classes.
Bards are not some Nietzschian ideal class that only those who are willing
to sacrifice can play and for which they are rewarded with awesome powers.
It is inherently arrogant to assume that bards are actually really powerful
but are not played by more people solely because of ignorance, laziness, or
incapacity.