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Dracus 2/04/08 12:19:16 PM
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Joined: 7/14/04
July 28, 2007: A day the silent majority spoke and brought down the communications of the US Capitol |
The purpose of this thread is to show screenshots of the server populations to provide a trend indication of PotBS. This is not a scientific study as exact numbers cannot be proven (as well as distinguishing from Station Pass holders, Paid Subscribers and Trial Accounts). If you would like to take part in this thread, please provide a screenshot or link of the server population with the time & date taken. Please refrain from any debates in this thread. If so desire to debate, then create a new thread and use this thread as the reference. This is only expected to last for two months. [Note: I do not have access to PotBS, nor do I intend to do so in the near future (I am currently engaged with another Independent Title) which is why I am not posting screenshots of PotBS. I and others are interested in how well an independent company with a non-fantasy based title performs with the current market.]
Current Status: Approximately 2 Weeks since launch (23JAN08). Trend appears to be of Slow Growth. 23JAN08 - 1700 EST If there are screenshots available for the days I missed, please make a post, and I'll update this one (just provide the link and time/date; no need to post the picture as this is to avoid redundancy).
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| And that is why... Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness. |
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Domenicus 2/05/08 11:28:33 AM
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Joined: 7/09/05 |
My question, is: What is ´high´? 2k players? |
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AgtSmith 2/06/08 4:12:45 AM
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Joined: 7/18/05 |
Low is up to ~150, moderate is up to ~250, heavy is up to ~350, and very heavy upwards of ~450. And FYI - these are per faction ratings so each server has 4 separate population counts. Pirate and British are almost always most populated with the Spanish coming in third, France is extremely light on about all servers easily averaging around 50 or less on at a time. Populations are getting better, at least at closer to prime times, but they are still pretty low overall and it is going to get worse when the first month runs out as like most MMOs allot of folks won't re-up. |
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RedwoodSap 2/06/08 4:59:04 AM
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Joined: 3/09/07
Not a retired MMORPG.com mod |
WOW everything is light. Time to merge servers. |
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TheRPGPope 2/06/08 3:11:01 PM
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Joined: 6/07/05 |
The only problem with the study is it shows alot of EST at 5PM, people just got home from work, and PST will still be at work. Yes you have one at 5:45pm that is moderatly busy, but it's on friday people get off work early usally and it's the day to sit and relax right after work. There are a few shots that show 10PM EST meaning Cali would just maybe getting on being at 6pm there time but most likely still enjoying dinner and long traffic hours. Maybe get some 12am EST shots to see whats going on. Because right now if you look all the EU servers are busy, because it's prime time for them. A big number of any game alone is West Coast, and these kindof do not show west coast US. |
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Dracus 2/06/08 5:38:08 PM
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Elite Member
Joined: 7/14/04
July 28, 2007: A day the silent majority spoke and brought down the communications of the US Capitol |
The pictures are of what others have shown. To help prove or support your point in terms of population, post a screenshot.
Seeing it is mid-week, how about a picture of tonight? And get ready for Friday and Saturday. |
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| And that is why... Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness. |
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StealthBomb 2/06/08 6:55:03 PM
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Joined: 1/13/08 |
Originally posted by Dracus
Here's a screenshot of the server populations. It is impossible to scientifically prove that "light", "medium", and "heavy" have any absolute meaning without knowing the total capacity and the thresholds for each stage. Therefore the only reasonably accurate measure you can make is to simply ask the game how many people are logged in at various times, which it will happily tell you, and then go from there. You can be extremely generous and double the peak figures provided by the game to account for off-peak players. But if you want to debate the legitimacy of the game's own, actual stats, please create a new thread to do so. In this thread let's just continue to monitor the population trends as revealed by the game's mechanics and continue to post screenshots showing real data provided by the game.
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Kill_trolls 2/07/08 5:37:49 AM
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Joined: 2/01/08 |
That's taken from an official forum thread which is OK, but keep in mind some of those numbers have not been updated since launch (spanish server especially, and french one was somewhat updated recently).. etc etc. It's better than nothing though, but I would prefer screenshots here, and actualy numbers to be posted in that thread in the official forum (without trolling pls). And yes, as you said, some are not logged in at the same time, but also, some are buddy accounts. |
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Binko 2/07/08 6:46:41 AM
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Joined: 11/20/07 |
Population is low. Read http://www.burningsea.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13 it's around 6k - 7k. Thats very low for a MMO and a normal game if you ask me. Maybe Bafucin was right about this game? Second Life have around 40k people online all the time lol. Now thats funny!
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Meltdown 2/07/08 3:16:22 PM
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