Arelith

TEASER: A mysterious project has started a few days ago... more details on 1st September...

The suspense is killing me

You only have to wait 11 more days, guys...

I feel like this has the makings of the greatest troll ever.

Seems like someone is using the Arelith API to sum all the time each player played in a month. The ones with most hours are the most active players.

cih's player list aleady does this to an extent, it just doesn't break player time per month, it just adds it all together.

Stath wrote:The suspense is killing me

same tbh

I think this'll just be real embarrassing.

Ork wrote:I think this'll just be real embarrassing.

I mean... That's a bit of a given. The thing left in question is who, precisely, will be embarassed.

This seems rather mean-spirited? Hm.

Noooooo! My secrets!

Wouldn't that just demonstrate the most active accounts, but not necessarily players?

I know I sure didn't want to win this contest.

It's a bit fun that when Virtual Reality finally hits on the mainstream market and the world starts debating whether or not it actually means something to spend so much time in a world that isn't real, nwn players will just be sitting there with a blank stare.

Time you enjoy wasting is never wasted.

Lets just pray there's not a stat for player who has taken most characters through the speedy quest...

Okay, I give up guys.

When I returned to the server(last month) I wanted to play with active players (I have limited time to play and didn't want to waste on doing nothing or grinding xp alone). So I thought, that it would be great to know who were the most active players and ask them about their factions/characters. You know, everyone wants to run with the cool kids.

So I developed a piece of code that checked the online list regularly and logged who was online at the time (the player account only). After about a day my script failed and I lost all the data because of a player account with probably non UTF encoded characters in it... I suffered a mini heart attack but who cares about that when you wanna know who are the most active ones right? I slightly changed the backend and my little observer friend was back in business.

After about a week I had enough data to at least guess who were the relatively active players. But I didn't think about the time zones. All the top players on my list were offline at the time I was playing... pfff. (yes, I know, I should have run the observer during my usual playing time)

Shadow Reality guessed well.

Shadowy Reality wrote:Seems like someone is using the Arelith API to sum all the time each player played in a month. The ones with most hours are the most active players.
cih's player list aleady does this to an extent, it just doesn't break player time per month, it just adds it all together.

Obviously I didn't know that cih's player list existed otherwise I probably wouldn't have spent time on working something similar.

The idea was to post the top 20 most active players (without releasing the hours I think they spent on the server this month). I wish I had the time to be amongst them btw

Stath, RamblerTeo thank you for your comment guys, it really made my day (whether it was sarcastic or not).

There, I said it, no more smoke and mirrors, just the facts. Didn't want to troll anyone.

I'm still itching to see who they are! Continue, Artenides.

Being online a lot doesn't necessarily make a character interesting.

Aodh Lazuli wrote:Being online a lot doesn't necessarily make a character interesting.

Can confirm, I am online constantly and have the blandest characters you'll ever meet.

Tarkus the dog wrote:

please cease that thing you do when you let out slavic sounds and move your lips nik

The players I like playing with the most tend to be in the middle or low range of activity.

Ork wrote:I'm still itching to see who they are! Continue, Artenides.

Will do, don't worry. Looking at the current data there is a real fight between the top 3 players.

Aodh Lazuli wrote:Being online a lot doesn't necessarily make a character interesting.

I never said that I wanted to play with the most interesting characters. I just wanted to play with players who are usually around.

Coincidentically, the players are in another TZ. Why not just play naturally and find the people that play a lot around your time zone?