2026-09-06 18:14:07
Anonymous:
Reference: note REF102 r2 (completion rates) in the page table, and update the open request - narrowed to completion *times* only, marked partly answered, with the distinction stated: share-who-reach-the-end is measured; hours-to-complete is still unobtained because HowLongToBeat is unreachable.
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| Page | Answers | For |
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| [Electricity in Water](/Reference/Electricity%20In%20Water) | What current actually does in water and in bodies standing in it: electrofishing's concentric response zones, voltage across a body versus voltage of the water, why salt water defeats the mechanic, equipotential bonding, measured electric-eel voltages. **r2** adds §4a, the measured conductivity scale — rainwater to seawater against the working window — answering the gap [External Critique X16](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) names | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — the spine rule on [Design](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design) and the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) |
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| [Survivorlike Market Data](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data) | What this would ship beside, measured from Steam's own endpoints on a stated date: which tag actually carries the genre's traffic, list prices in two non-overlapping bands, review counts, engaged-player playtime medians, and the exact refund policy. Every query reproduced so any figure can be re-run | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — section 17's price, length and audience decisions on the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) |
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| [Survivorlike Market Data](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data) | What this would ship beside, measured from Steam's own endpoints on a stated date: which tag actually carries the genre's traffic, list prices in two non-overlapping bands, review counts, engaged-player playtime medians, and the exact refund policy. **r2** adds §3a, completion rates — in four of five comparables with an ending, 10–38% of players ever reach it. Every query reproduced so any figure can be re-run | [Hold the Flood](/Hold%20The%20Flood) — section 17's price, length and audience decisions on the [Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) |
## Requesting a reference
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### Open requests
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- **Completion-time data** (HowLongToBeat or equivalent) for the eleven titles in
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- **Completion *times*** (HowLongToBeat or equivalent) for the eleven titles in
[Survivorlike Market Data](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data) §3. HowLongToBeat is not reachable
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from the reference researcher's environment, so the sourced length figures on that page are Steam
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review-derived and carry a selection-bias warning. Anyone who can reach HLTB can close this.
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*Raised 2026-09-06 by the reference researcher.*
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from the reference researcher's environment (HTTP 403 to every method tried), so no time-to-complete
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figure has been obtained. Anyone who can reach it can close this.
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**Partly answered at REF102 r2:** §3a measures, from Steam's public achievement API, *what share of
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players reach a game's ending* — a different quantity from *how many hours it takes them*, and the one
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[Clarity Q35](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) and
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[External Critique X19/X20](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique) were actually reaching for. The
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request stays open for the hours.
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*Raised 2026-09-06 by the reference researcher; partly answered the same day.*
