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Posted - 2015.05.04 11:16:00 -
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Iron Wolf Saber wrote:Well for estimation purposes only; you take peak and you then multiply it by the how many fractions of a play session over a day there are and you'd get about a ball park of the total active population so with a play session being about 15-30 likely being average you multiply it by anywhere from 96x(as there are 96 quater hour sessions a day) to 48x(as there are 48 half hour sessions a day)
More typical MMO games have longer sessions at an hour to two so the multipliers there would be x24 (wow like mmos where you can do alot in an hour) or x12 (eve like mmos where it takes a few hours to do something)
This estimate is about up to 30% off from actual on the few games I can get population numbers for.
Just because it says 3k people now; doesn't mean its the same 3k people over the 24 hours, No game has this be fact. Players will log off and players will log on. There are peaks generally in the timezones where the game is most popular and vice versa. Some days of the week are more popular than others as well.
The API is known to only spit out information ever 5 minutes I think it was so someone who quickly logs in and out could possibly DODGE the eve offline tool as well but until information on how it counts people (does it count everyone in the last 5 minutes or the snap shot right then and there) is not known to me.
this post is somewhat misleading.... remember folks hes assuming that players only play for 15-30minuites a day then log off....
seeing as hes actually in a position to find the "average daily play time" of the dust population he should be able to do better than this.
bonus points if you filer out anyone who logs in but doesnt actually play a match (seeing as thats the real question we want to know)
the number ends up being somewhere in the area of 15-20k people who actually play a match in a single day.this can peak up to about 40k during a huge activity spike (like when a patch comes out)
if your going to do the math, actually do the math IWS, otherwise your just shitposting and spreading wierd and misleadinng information.
without concrete data the best estimate i can get is that DUST514 currently has an active player base of only about 60-75k players
Minmatar is Winmatar
Creed of the Minja - "I'm a leaf on the wind"
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Posted - 2015.05.04 12:01:00 -
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hilariously enough the english speaking portion of the playerbase is shrinnking and now makes up about a third. so these forums are a minority of a minority....
and CCP provides no language support for two thirds of their playerbase now :P
Minmatar is Winmatar
Creed of the Minja - "I'm a leaf on the wind"
I am Chances Ghost
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Ghosts Chance
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Posted - 2015.05.04 14:28:00 -
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hey IWS, get me the exact number for the average time a player spends logged into the game excluding outliers (lets say top and bottom 5%) and ill calculate the average daily player pool with a 10% margin of error
Minmatar is Winmatar
Creed of the Minja - "I'm a leaf on the wind"
I am Chances Ghost
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Ghosts Chance
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Posted - 2015.05.04 15:07:00 -
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CCP is hermmoraging vertrens faster than it can replace them, new players dont stick around.
not saying dust is dieing, but its vetren playerbase sure is.
Minmatar is Winmatar
Creed of the Minja - "I'm a leaf on the wind"
I am Chances Ghost
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