So I wrote an EQ Server population parser... here's some data !

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Originally Posted by falkun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is this compiled by you (using the client) or did someone (Rogean?) parse the actual server? What were the parameters of the server data parse?

This is done client side - Rogean has access to far superior tools to see what's going on on the server but he obviously cannot open these to the public [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How it works essentially is that I've made a series of macros, for instance:
/who all cleric 1 10
/who all cleric 11 20
(etc)

The output of these are logged to the eqlog.txt file and then parsed and inserted/sorted into a database.
If the parser sees a newer record for a player, it updates the record in the database, it otherwise ignores it.

This allows me to eventually, as I run these macros several times a week, to catch every character at least once and end up having pretty accurate data.