Does who all count capture anonymous?

[Chinetter]

I'm collecting some online counts by class, because I'm curious, and will post the results. It's not clear to me though whether players who are in-game but have turned on the /anonymous switch are being included in the counts I'm getting.

If I do "/who all ranger count", repeat for each class, the resulting numbers add up to say 900 players in-game across all classes. Then if I do "/who all count" I get that same overall total, 900.

However when I logged in the list of servers had said that the server I am doing these counts on had a population of 1,050.

"/who all anonymous count" doesn't work, gives no results.

So why do in-game counts, either done class by class or as a single "who all count", return a value that is about 150 lower than what the server list says is the server's current population? Is that because players who have gone anonymous in-game are not being counted by "/who all count"?

[Sarkhan]

I could be wrong, but the explanation I was given was /who all count gives accurate # of people in norrath whereas the server list includes people sitting at character select, so accounts logged in but not playing a char.

[Izmael]

It does count anonymous characters logged in as well as those on character selection screen.

[Senn]

It does count anonymous characters logged in as well as those on character selection screen.


No, it doesn't count those at char select.

[Chinetter]

No, it doesn't count those at char select.

Okay, then what's the explanation? Why is it that "/who all count" while in-game consistently returns a value that is ~150 lower than the server population that is shown in the server list? I've tested this is a number of times now, same answer every time.

(This is on the Green server btw.)

[Swish]

Okay, then what's the explanation? Why is it that "/who all count" while in-game consistently returns a value that is ~150 lower than the server population that is shown in the server list? I've tested this is a number of times now, same answer every time.

(This is on the Green server btw.)

If there's 1000 people are marked on the server select screen and only 850 people are on the count, it's because the other 150 are at the character select screen (it counts accounts "in limbo").

Is that any clearer?

[Shrubwise]

Swish is correct here

[Chinetter]

That's what I'd guessed, yes, but I was responding to Senn who stated that it wasn't true.

[Izmael]

Sorry indeed. Char select screen chars aren't counted in /who all count
They are however counted on server select screen and on p99 home page