I don't know about everyone else, but I like seeing game statistics after a game. Or a graph showing my metal income and energy income. Will there be statistics available to us in PA? Or does anyone want it?
I want it, and I suspect they will be able to do it given the amount of detail they are spending on the design of this game. I suspect it helps if you bake it in early, and I think they are doing just that. I personally am hoping for the detailed breakdowns available in Sins of a Solar Empire.* I mean look at that: drill downs by ship type and player over time. The only thing missing is composite stats like fleet disposition over time or the ability to correlate any two arbitrary graphs. (which would be wicked cool, but this isn't SPSS: The Game.) * (Full Let's Play website was here if you want to read the rest of it).
I'd like to see amount of units (of mine) actually killed, as opposed to adding up all the units that did die, and all the units I actually had left when my commander died. Maybe a way of seeing how the unit production changed over the course of a game, both in terms of numbers, and in terms of unit-types. I like statistics. That way, even if I lose absolutely every game of PA I play (which is quite possible...), I can still amuse myself by seeing if I broke my record for the number of planets colonised, number of enemy coms squashed, number of times my com was hit before he finally snuffed it, etc etc.
