Online Statistics

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               9:30 AM? What's that... EST or PST? Or neither?

Regardless, you can pretty much discount all the below age 17-18 kids from the sample right off the bat.
9:30 AM isn't exactly prime time is it?  Unless Europe and Asia own the lion's share of the sample.

Unless employers are all complete idiots it's unlikely you are getting anything but unemployed, night shifters and retirees in that sample.

A snap shot reveals very little anyway.  Perhaps post an hourly graph for each server for a week's sample (168 hrs... yikes!). Now THAT may be more revealing... at least for the pre-winter N. American season.  Any spreadsheet could do that easily, if you are so disposed.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Genisys]

               

Drewskie wrote...

Genisys wrote...

Yeah, I play Battlefield2 mostly now, I feel a certain satisfaction owning others in one hit. '>....

I was thinking more of Mass Effect2, Dragon Age, and Starcraft2.

D.A. may attract me later on, but right now, I like owning people with my AK-47 '>

The problem is, D.A. isn't NWN...   :/
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Genisys]

               

HipMaestro wrote...

9:30 AM? What's that... EST or PST? Or neither?

Regardless, you can pretty much discount all the below age 17-18 kids from the sample right off the bat.
9:30 AM isn't exactly prime time is it?  Unless Europe and Asia own the lion's share of the sample.

Unless employers are all complete idiots it's unlikely you are getting anything but unemployed, night shifters and retirees in that sample.

A snap shot reveals very little anyway.  Perhaps post an hourly graph for each server for a week's sample (168 hrs... yikes!). Now THAT may be more revealing... at least for the pre-winter N. American season.  Any spreadsheet could do that easily, if you are so disposed.

If you feel like tracking all the servers and reporting it, be my guest....

I for one have better things to do.  '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_tmanfoo]

               I'm sure there is a way to automate this with Excel or some such.  It's beyond me on how to do it though.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Genisys]

               

tmanfoo wrote...

I'm sure there is a way to automate this with Excel or some such.  It's beyond me on how to do it though.

Lol, what is it with you and excel eh? 
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               

tmanfoo wrote...

I'm sure there is a way to automate this with Excel or some such.  It's beyond me on how to do it though.

I would stick with the "some such" alternative as in the freeware one can DL to port real-time stock market and commodity quotes to your desktop.  If they can track  thousands of indices real-time, they should be able to monitor a handful of servers.

Using a static spreadsheet application like Excel would require you to periodically port the data manually... not exactly an efficient use of one's limited time here on earth.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Calvinthesneak]

               Probably far more likely to write a php app that polls servers (you'd have to talk to gamespy?) once an hour to list total people online.  I've seen individual servers have such apps to list who's online from a web page.  Surely going one more step to poll multiple servers shouldn't be impossible (and is probably likely how gamespy tracks online gamplay).
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_tmanfoo]

               

Genisys wrote...

tmanfoo wrote...

I'm sure there is a way to automate this with Excel or some such.  It's beyond me on how to do it though.

Lol, what is it with you and excel eh? 

Uhmm.. that's a very good question right there.  I'll have to keep you posted.

Calvinthesneak wrote...

Probably far more likely to write a
php app that polls servers (you'd have to talk to gamespy?) once an
hour to list total people online.  I've seen individual servers have
such apps to list who's online from a web page.  Surely going one more
step to poll multiple servers shouldn't be impossible (and is probably
likely how gamespy tracks online gamplay).

I did a debug of the gamespy transaction a long time ago, and i think it was pretty much just a IRC type server.  Of course I could be remembering battle.net.  Whatever the case, we could probably get a feed from gamespy pretty easily with php unless they're using something whacky. 

Of course, if people are inflating their server population count, then there is probably little point.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par tmanfoo, 20 septembre 2010 - 07:33 .