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I was inspired by @Hudson documenting Garry's Mod stuff and I wanted to join in. I like data visualization so I decided to compile every available PK appeal for the year of 2019. Here are some important things regarding the data -
The causes of death are pretty self-explanatory -
- Citizen is a character with no known affiliation or no strong affiliation. It's possible that some characters listed as a citizen are a rebel or a loyalist, but it was unclear at the time.
- Loyalist is someone in an official Union faction, like UM, UIL, CWU, and so on. Or, they are a character of a high tier, or they died in a situation where loyalism was the crux of the PK (like reporting a lot of people).
- Rebel is someone I either personally know to be a rebel, or they have a one word name which I assume makes them BOL or off of the grid.
- Other is someone like a tribune or a CAB.
- Xenian is a vortigaunt, zombie, headcrab, whatever comes from Xen.
The causes of death are pretty self-explanatory -
- Gunshot is being shot by a gun. Crazy right??
- Blunt force trauma is getting beaten to death or falling from a high distance.
- Stabbing is getting stabbed, diced, or sliced to death.
- Other is usually an OOC removal from a faction or something like an overdose, or a toilet hitting the character from space. Usually rare. I also included being zapped by a vort in this.
Cause of Deaths
Factions of those PKed
Successful and unsuccessful PKs relating to each faction
The darker shade represents PKed, the lighter shade represents unPKed.
Statistics of the data
37% of Citizens were unPKed. Out of 29 PK appeals in 2019, 18 were denied.
Out of 4 Loyalist PK appeals, an even 50% were unPKed.
The same split is shown with Xenian characters, with 50% unPKed.
Out of 7 CP's PKed, 28% were unPKed.
Rebels had a really surprising number. Out of 16 appeals, 75% were unPKed.
0% of 'other' characters were unPKed. Sorry, Marquis.
Interpretation of the data
I'm not sure to be surprised whether or not shootings made up a very high portion of killings. I thought with the prevalence melee weapons, you'd have more PKs with those. I remember cutting off some guy's head on my Japanese character in CW.
I think the reason you don't see CP's getting unPKed a lot is because head cops are doing most of the killing, and it's usually for very well documented reasons.
Rebels had a really high success rate, even though I'm sure rebels get killed all the time. I was surprised by this the most. Maybe people who RP characters like this don't post frivolous PK appeals.
Citizens made up the bulk of the data, and most of them were shot by CPs. Occasionally, they were killed by other citizens or rebels. I'm not sure what to make of this.
Loyalist characters were split with a small sample size. I don't think they get killed a lot.
What do you guys think?
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