Originally posted by @kuma
I dunno about you number-obsessives but I really just want to know is the map great/good/ok/poor/scimitarish
NC's review scheme has more stats than most RPG's
/me no care fo numbers other than a guidline - it seing what parts of map are gooder or less
Like,
DM-DMUT-Cryptic][ got rated down for not having good flow. I don't care. Review says atmosphere is good, and I like that.
Oh, well. Most of the new reviews are so thorough and well structured that I don't need to look at the numbers really. It's still good to force a bit objectivity on the reviewers; they can still add their personal opinion like "The rating system doesn't allow me to rate the map zero although I'd like to" and we can make of that what we want. A good system.
So I can conclude the rating numbers are a kind of
smallest common denominator that are useful if the review doesn't give me a clear enough picture of what to expect.