[Horus] A few statistics.

[Mattdoesrock]

Hi folks.

Lately there's been alot of talk about "OMFG U R DA ZERG, U HAS S0 MENY MOAR DEN US, ZERRRRG ZERRRRG, WTFBBQLOL WE R UNDAPOPULATID!" etc. etc. So while I was waiting for a film to buffer today (fuck my slow internet ¬¬) I decided to do some Maths.

I was randomly browsing the highscores when I thought it might be an idea to add up some clan numbers to try and see who out numbers who.

NOW, before I start, I know that not everyone is in a clan. Not everyone will be active. Not everyone is this, that and the other. I know this, these numbers are hard evidence for flaming U R DA ZERG, HALP NDG GIV UZ DA B0NUZ! but just to give a very rough idea of some general realm numbers.



So there you go.

Clearly Syrtis waaaay out numbers both Alsius and Ignis, but the gap between Ignis and Alsius is not that far.

Make of it what you will, but please, for the love of Surak, let's at least try to keep it moderatly flame free.

[Angelwinged_Devil]

you can't use this for anything, some are inactive, some are banks, alts, there are no indication of level or lower level these are pure numbers not processed at all

you would need to play daily or have some sort of monitor to get some real statistics.

but seems like you don't know this after reading your thread

[UmarilsStillHere]

I think I did something like this ages ago in one of the realm number inbalance threads (flamewars) although it does give a rough Idea I think at then end you need to take into account that throughout all timezones each realm has maybe 1 or 2 hundred active players, so the numbers produced by this method although showing a sort of trend (we all know syrtis tends to have the highest with alsius and ignis swaping every few months) the numbers are just to large to be reliable

And thats without looking into levels, timezones, alts, banks, inactives... To get a real idea we need something off NGD listing for example how many accounts (not chars!) gained more than 300~ Rp on a char in the last week.

Originally Posted by Angelwinged Devil

but seems like you don't know this after reading your thread

By suraks mullet >.>

[Mattdoesrock]

Originally Posted by Angelwinged_Devil

you can't use this for anything, some are inactive, some are banks, alts, there are no indication of level or lower level these are pure numbers not processed at all

you would need to play daily or have some sort of monitor to get some real statistics.

but seems like you don't know this after reading your thread

Originally Posted by Mattdoesrock

NOW, before I start, I know that not everyone is in a clan. Not everyone will be active. Not everyone is this, that and the other. I know this, these numbers are hard evidence for flaming U R DA ZERG, HALP NDG GIV UZ DA B0NUZ! but just to give a very rough idea of some general realm numbers.

Please Awd, I know you lack most human intelligence, but please at least read what I had said before posting.

[Pizdzius]

As I said on IRC, I don't even think it's that much overpopulated.
Ignis and Alsius have smaller groups and they manage to get big rp in their clan raids.
Syrtis just piles up in some random zerg and get 1rp spam - a lot.
Alsius is more organized - I don't know about Ignis, They seem to be masters of attacking from behind ;D
That's why I think being overpopulated doesn't mean a thing as long as Syrtis really just spams with itself.

So, Matt, in general - yeah ^^ there is a huge gap, but not in skills

[Altara]

Originally Posted by Mattdoesrock

NOW, before I start, I know that not everyone is in a clan. Not everyone will be active. Not everyone is this, that and the other. I know this, these numbers are hard evidence for flaming U R DA ZERG, HALP NDG GIV UZ DA B0NUZ! but just to give a very rough idea of some general realm numbers.

/me keeps this in mind.

Now, sure that some are banks or alts, but they are banks and Alts of people who play. As for in active, there are many inactive characters IN EACH REALM.
Coming to that conclusion, a rough estimate would be to knock maybe a hundred off of each realm, but still the ratio would pretty much be the same.

You would have to be blind to not see that Syrtis outweighs the other 2 realms most of the time. (with rare exceptions of time zones) and alsius and Ignis are about the same, sure Alsius CAN zerg and CAN take back our forts, when we actually have people on, other then that theres nothing, as the same with Ignis, and sometimes Syrtis.

But Thank you Matt for making this, I hope people will see how silly they have been every time they came whining to the forums because they got owned :3

[von1958]

lmao forest guardians says it has 233 members but active might be 20 that is counting alts if you look at it around a 24hr period at some time one of the 3 realms has the most folks online but that is timezone imbalance something your chart does not show

[Bladnoch]

If anything, this shows evidence that newbies are more than likely to pick Syrtis to join over the other two - Alsius' and Ignis' numbers are too close to determine anything else. But the green popularity shows something which could be very likely. I know I joined Syrtis initially because I thought it looked the coolest.

[Pizdzius]

Many people joined Syrtis because of Lord of the Rings thing /o\

[Arafails]

I wonder how many people would join Syrtis if there was a big sign up saying this....

All the same though, those numbers mean very little. Most people are in a clan, but some people who are in clans don't play anymore, there's a lot of alternate characters made that interfere with these statistics and yadda yadda yadda.