[Issue 48] Female Tankers: Myth vs. Reality

[personia 4,036]

I don't know why I'm here.

 

 

Firstly, there are more boys than girls that play this game, and in fact most computer/console games are male dominated. This means that in a game like tanki, where females are actually hard to find, to run a quantitative analysis on skill level between females and males is reasonably hard. This point can be nullified however by the fact that in a game like tanki with a player base of over 30000 consistent players, even if the ratio of males:females is 19:1 (respectively), there are still enough females to carry out such an analysis (though gathering data would be tough due to possible lack of active participants).

 

Secondly, you must define skill, which is rather difficult. Many people would just say k/d and leave it at that, but that cuts out flag bearers, healers and elevates snipers and campers, as well as defenders. To define skill for each particular role is easier, but given the fact that most people have a main combo and a secondary to fall back on and sometimes a third turret-hull combination (or more), you can't define a person by one combo unless that is the only combo that they use, which would mean you would have to take data sets for each combo they have and then integrate them in together or something. Given the 'lack' of girls, this task becomes insanely difficult extremely fast.

 

Thirdly, and this is probably a more controversial point to make, but I shall make it anyways. As I said, more boys play games. This also applies to the point that more guys play more games than girls (which is actually a bad thing girls, so don't go getting salty). In sport, it is a commonly known fact that people who specialise in one sport early on do not go very far whilst those who diversify go further. I'm not 100% sure if this applies to esports as well, but I think it's a fair assumption to make, meaning that actually, on average guys probably are better than girls at computer games (of which tanki is one).

 

I may have more points, but my mum wants me to go to sleep, so I'll sleep on it and come tomorrow with some more thoughts/points perhaps.

 

Thanks,

per.

Edited July 15, 2017 by personia

[REDOUANE78190 836]

@Night-Sisters are you a French?

Edited July 15, 2017 by REDOUANE78190

[LaLisa_My_Queen 271]

Came here to *dab*  :D

 

Haven't been in the forum in like forever, but cool topic. Loved it. ^_^

Edited July 25, 2017 by LaLisa_My_Queen

[GuidoFawkes 2,361]

@Night-Sisters are you a French?

non, she doesn't even speak french.

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

I think this article is completely true. I have seen many female tankers that are more than capable to send the average Joe home in tears after a battle.