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    Finished collecting data on 50-80; now working on a more thourough statistical analysis. Seemed to work perfectly though: After repeating the test three times with 100 characters each, when you average the data both the median and the average age of death are 60-61! Just like normal! I'm gonna see if I can calculate the range with 95% confidence, since I just so happen to be taking a class on this kind of thing this quarter.

    EDIT: All right, finished. Based on three hundred samples, I can say with 95% confidence that when the age range is 50-80 the average age of death is 60-62. I'd say this is practically perfect. Since a person who dies at fifty (and the earliest anybody died was age 51) would still have about 50 turns of life, I'd say this age range is the perfect compromise.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cecil XIX View Post
    Finished collecting data on 50-80; now working on a more thourough statistical analysis. Seemed to work perfectly though: After repeating the test three times with 100 characters each, when you average the data both the median and the average age of death are 60-61! Just like normal! I'm gonna see if I can calculate the range with 95% confidence, since I just so happen to be taking a class on this kind of thing this quarter.

    EDIT: All right, finished. Based on three hundred samples, I can say with 95% confidence that when the age range is 50-80 the average age of death is 60-62. I'd say this is practically perfect. Since a person who dies at fifty (and the earliest anybody died was age 51) would still have about 50 turns of life, I'd say this age range is the perfect compromise.
    I agree. It's adds a small dose of unpredictability, which can create dramatic or subtle changes to the game.

    Some of you guys won't know, but my first avatar in KotR was actuall assassinated by the AI at age 42!

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