Accurate player count

[Dallane]

The fact that the current player pop was removed is a fairly good indicator of hiding the low server pop. You will notice that the load is usually around the same % as before.

Does it matter? Not really. I just think its fairly scumbag to hide at 100-200ish typical non-peek current population

[Kaios]

in that case i accept a margin of error of 4000 players
salem has 2 active players

im accurate.

yer just butchering the meaning of accurate.

TROLL

Also I've been saying it's the worst server status page for awhile now

[JohnCarver]

Correct. A long time ago Loftar put the average accounts logged onto by players at 1.3. Most of us here on the forums use multiple accounts when we log on but the vast majority of players only use one account. Also it measures accounts, not characters. When you switch characters it doesn't count as a new point.

When they took over and before they went to a daily account log on count it jumped from 130 to around 150-180 on at a time. When they switched over to the daily count it was at around 500-550 daily users with a low of 450 daily over the 4th of July. It climbed to around 750-780 daily around Sept and then dropped after labor day, due to school starting I guess. It's been down since the Tribe, the Rabbits and the Pirates all quit or were killed to the 600-650 range which would put it at about 200-230 people on at peak times and maybe 450-500 individual players on daily.

I find it oddly disturbing how 'accurate' Claeyt has been as of late and wonder if this means I am indeed losing my mind.

[Icon]

Correct. A long time ago Loftar put the average accounts logged onto by players at 1.3. Most of us here on the forums use multiple accounts when we log on but the vast majority of players only use one account. Also it measures accounts, not characters. When you switch characters it doesn't count as a new point.

When they took over and before they went to a daily account log on count it jumped from 130 to around 150-180 on at a time. When they switched over to the daily count it was at around 500-550 daily users with a low of 450 daily over the 4th of July. It climbed to around 750-780 daily around Sept and then dropped after labor day, due to school starting I guess. It's been down since the Tribe, the Rabbits and the Pirates all quit or were killed to the 600-650 range which would put it at about 200-230 people on at peak times and maybe 450-500 individual players on daily.

I find it oddly disturbing how 'accurate' Claeyt has been as of late and wonder if this means I am indeed losing my mind.

Dat spirit walk...

[Dallane]

I find it oddly disturbing how 'accurate' Claeyt has been as of late and wonder if this means I am indeed losing my mind.

Perhaps he learned his lesson once you sent him into the great dream

[Claeyt]

Correct. A long time ago Loftar put the average accounts logged onto by players at 1.3. Most of us here on the forums use multiple accounts when we log on but the vast majority of players only use one account. Also it measures accounts, not characters. When you switch characters it doesn't count as a new point.

When they took over and before they went to a daily account log on count it jumped from 130 to around 150-180 on at a time. When they switched over to the daily count it was at around 500-550 daily users with a low of 450 daily over the 4th of July. It climbed to around 750-780 daily around Sept and then dropped after labor day, due to school starting I guess. It's been down since the Tribe, the Rabbits and the Pirates all quit or were killed to the 600-650 range which would put it at about 200-230 people on at peak times and maybe 450-500 individual players on daily.

I find it oddly disturbing how 'accurate' Claeyt has been as of late and wonder if this means I am indeed losing my mind.

I've always been right, you just needed more convincing.

[colesie]

I've always been right, you just needed more convincing.

Oh god moderators please do your job and remove Claeyt from my perfect thread

Ugh I might need to start a new one now

[MagicManICT]

I find it oddly disturbing how 'accurate' Claeyt has been as of late and wonder if this means I am indeed losing my mind.

When it comes to actual facts, I don't find claeyt to be wrong much. When it comes to interpretation of data, though... well, we're all entitled to our own opinions.

[loftar]

Around 200 daily, the server status measures the amount of accounts logged per day/week/month, imo the normal salem player has 2-3 accounts so 600/3 = 200 daily.-

Doesn't it check the IP?

Actually, the number of unique IPs is usually far more inflated than the number of unique accounts. On a usual basis, the number of unique IP addresses logging in is approximately 50-60% higher than the number of accounts.

You will notice that the load is usually around the same % as before.

It should be mentioned that the server load figure should be taken with no few grains of salt. The major (but not only) component of it is the simple CPU usage of the server process, which is kind of a crappy measure in the presence of CPU frequency scaling and such.