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

[SamwiseRed]

damn bro, you bluebies get upset over everything lol might wanna re-evaluate your life , sounds like its no where near thriving.

[Swish]

Llodd and Sam in cahoots for the chance for Sam to say the above ^

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

This was interesting. I would like to see lots of them, date stamped.

Thanks for doing this.

Actually what I might just do is have a local database so I can do snapshots and just update character records if I see them more than once.
More accurate information this way, IMO, and I'll eventually end up getting most if not all characters eventually as I do my daily snapshots [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Here is today's data as of 4:45PM EST!
Yesterday's data (also snapshotted at 4:45PM EST) is available here.

Players online: 854
Players Identified: 536
Players anonymous/roleplay: 318

Originally Posted by Classes

monk 60
necromancer 60
druid 59
warrior 52
shaman 48
bard 46
enchanter 44
cleric 38
shadowknight 30
magician 28
wizard 23
rogue 19
paladin 15
ranger 14

Originally Posted by Levels

1 16
2 8
3 7
4 17
5 12
6 11
7 20
8 11
9 12
10 15
11 8
12 7
13 10
14 17
15 14
16 11
17 9
18 7
19 13
20 6
21 9
22 9
23 5
24 7
25 5
26 6
27 4
28 4
29 7
30 12
31 5
32 5
33 10
34 5
35 9
36 6
37 5
38 4
39 6
40 9
41 4
42 7
43 2
44 4
45 6
46 3
47 6
48 2
49 2
50 6
51 9
52 20
53 10
54 13
55 10
56 17
57 11
58 7
59 11
60 23

Originally Posted by Races

Human 68
Iksar 68
Dark Elf 57
Wood Elf 57
High Elf 48
Halfling 41
Gnome 34
Half Elf 34
Erudite 30
Ogre 29
Barbarian 26
Dwarf 26
Troll 18

Originally Posted by Guilds

None 325
Bregan D`Aerth 21
Full Circle 20
Asgard 14
Europa 14
Knights Who Say Ni 13
Taken 13
Divinity 12
The Mystical Order 11
Swampwater Taffy 9
Azure Guard 8
Arcadia 7
Kusemites 7
Forceful Entry 5
Peace Pipe 5
Flawless Victory 4
Of Tholuxe Paells 4
Ardness 3
Carpe Noctem 3
Honor Face 3
Sunnyvale 3
The Dark Exile 3
LFG Puma Group 2
Sacred Fyre 2
Shipwrecked 2
The Pride 2
Bloodline of Eld 1
Dark Twilight 1
Dream Tribe 1
Evoluxa 1
Fashionably Late 1
Free Raiders 1
Freedom Guard 1
Go Team Good Guys 1
Inglourious Basterds 1
Katximba Oscura 1
Loading Please Wait 1
Lost Sock Patrol 1
Mari Kita 1
Norrath's Curse 1
One Man Wolfpack 1
Prophecy 1
Signum Lumen 1
The A-Team 1
The Warlords 1
Together As One 1
Triality 1

Originally Posted by Zones

ecommons 85
gfaydark 30
oasis 25
fieldofbone 23
overthere 21
karnor 19
sebilis 16
nro 14
unrest 13
"Loading" 11
citymist 11
charasis 10
gukbottom 10
southkarana 10
guktop 9
lakeofillomen 9
nektulos 9
blackburrow 8
eastkarana 8
mistmoore 8
oot 8
steamfont 8
crushbone 7
dreadlands 7
frontiermtns 7
misty 7
soldungb 7
butcher 6
everfrost 6
highkeep 6
qey2hh1 6
timorous 6
oggok 5
paw 5
rathemtn 5
warslikswood 5
burningwood 4
commons 4
firiona 4
freportw 4
hole 4
najena 4
soldunga 4
cabeast 3
freportn 3
innothule 3
lfaydark 3
qeynos2 3
qeytoqrg 3
tox 3
trakanon 3
droga 2
felwithea 2
kedge 2
lavastorm 2
northkarana 2
airplane 1
akanon 1
beholder 1
cabwest 1
cauldron 1
chardok 1
emeraldjungle 1
erudnint 1
feerrott 1
felwitheb 1
freporte 1
halas 1
highpass 1
kaesora 1
kaladimb 1
kithicor 1
kurn 1
neriaka 1
neriakc 1
permafrost 1
qeynos 1
rivervale 1
skyfire 1
swampofnohope 1

[stormlord]

Any idea what level the anonymous are?

I wonder what the average level of the total playerbase is?

Like the parse.

Assuming an equal spread of zones for each level tier then I would say that some level ranges are weak, particularly between 40 and 50. It's hard to say, though. You have to add up all the zones per level range and then compare to the population listed here. If an average zone can supply for X players then you can see whether there's congestion. Too much congestion means the population is too high. I don't think this server will see any of that, though. Nothing like on live where there were twice as many people at least.

With the kunark expansion I think ti's safe to say there's lots of content 30+. But with the thin population in the mid-range must be a tough haul for anybody outside the popular zone(s).

However, the anonymous figure brings some unknown into this.

One of hte problems EQ had later on was too many zones spreading out the playerbase. Classic + Kunark + Velious + Luclin is a LOT of 30+ content. And some new players went to luclin zones. You can imagine that when luclin first released, there were hundreds of thousands of vah shir alts and new characters made.

The company solved that with gloomingdeep + luclin spires + pok books + tss + hotzones + etc. I in fact read a developer chat where they mentioned this exact issue and had stated the numbers they wanted.

[Thulack]

So many druids. Just think of the % of the Anon players that are druids. Probably the class along with wizzy that would anon. Can't say much though as i am one of them too :P

[Vladesch]

Nice work.

Unfortunately due to anon these results get skewed against certain classes. Clerics, druid, enchanters are probably more anonymous than the other classes because of rez,port and clarity respectively.

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

Nice work.

Unfortunately due to anon these results get skewed against certain classes. Clerics, druid, enchanters are probably more anonymous than the other classes because of rez,port and clarity respectively.

I'm working on the database backend to be able to synchronize daily snapshots right now.

When that is done, I will make another set of data that contains server totals at the time of the snapshot.

E.g, maybe the parser can identify 60 monks but if "/who all monk count" shows 80, I know that there are 20 anonymous or roleplay monks.

Eh, it's fun doing this [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[SamwiseRed]

/who all druid count will count anonymous too as for any class with that command.

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Whew, I've finished the database backend to synchronize the snapshots.

I'll do a couple of snapshots per day and I believe that within a few days I should have a good idea of what the server population really looks like [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'll report back later !

Edit: After synchronizing just a second snapshot, already have a database of 944 characters [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]