Thread:Argronar/@comment-4091261-20150205201051

In reply to: Thread:1180720

I agree with you entirely. Gold efficiency hasn't really given a substantial affect to gameplay due to relatively simple reasons such as synergy and conditions. Though, there is one contradiction I believe must be attended to:

Argronar wrote:

it's largely impossible to assign a proper value to an item in terms of efficiency because they'll be more efficient in certain circumstances than in others

I know for a fact that it is possible to assign proper values to an item in terms of efficiency. The reason I know that is because calculations for the item's affect on a champion is within the game. If it exists in a game, why can we not replicate that outside of game? Where you are correct is that it is impossible to assign the same value of efficiency to multiple champions as if they were the same; however stating that it is impossible, in general, to assign a proper value to an item in terms of efficiency is not quite true.

There is one possible way to create another form of "Cost Efficiency" to include every single variable possible into the calculation. That would be to flip the current perspective of looking at gold efficiency. Instead of assigning a value based on an expense of gold, we assign an expense based on the value. The entire process would  become: acquiring the whole benefit of buying a set of items on a certain champion, and then comparing that to the price in gold and slots and other various expenses.

This would mean that gold efficiency would not be stated for each item page but for each champion instead. As champions synergize in different ways, so to does the gold efficiency change as well. Although, that doesn't mean it is impossible to assign efficiency, it just means that efficiency was assigned in the wrong way.

P.S. The reason I'm responding to you here instead of on the "Cost Efficiency Pt 2 Electric Boogaloo" is because we are not able to reply to previous users in the mini-comments section--and nobody uses the damn discussion link that we could actually make these conversations on. 