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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7650653" data-attributes="member: 22424">&quot;That which is measured improves.&quot;That's very true. But...It's very important to make sure you're measuring the right things in the right way. Otherwise, you can end up with a set of statistics that look really good, but that end up being utterly soulless. (And this is especially important with RPGs, where so much of the important stuff is hidden in the 'intangibles'.)The best example of this is probably movie sequels, where the studios work very hard to identify what people liked about the original, and then make sure to put more of that stuff in the sequels. Because &quot;more good stuff&quot; must make for a better film, right? And so we get films like &quot;Star Trek: Nemesis&quot;, where they try really hard to recreate Khan (again)... and it falls utterly flat because there's a lot more to the success of &quot;Wrath of Khan&quot; than just noting that he was a cool bad guy.All that said, though, provided you do measure the right things and in the right way, measuring them is incredibly valuable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 7650653, member: 22424"] "That which is measured improves." That's very true. But... It's very important to make sure you're measuring the [i]right[/i] things in the [i]right[/i] way. Otherwise, you can end up with a set of statistics that look really good, but that end up being utterly soulless. (And this is especially important with RPGs, where so much of the important stuff is hidden in the 'intangibles'.) The best example of this is probably movie sequels, where the studios work very hard to identify what people liked about the original, and then make sure to put more of that stuff in the sequels. Because "more good stuff" must make for a better film, right? And so we get films like "Star Trek: Nemesis", where they try really hard to recreate Khan (again)... and it falls utterly flat because there's a lot more to the success of "Wrath of Khan" than just noting that he was a cool bad guy. All that said, though, provided you do measure the right things and in the right way, measuring them is incredibly valuable. [/QUOTE]

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