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

[Dulu]

Interesting that Erudites have the best stats for 1/3rd of the classes in the game, yet have the lowest population..

Are EQ players racist?

[Tikku82]

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

Interesting that Erudites have the best stats for 1/3rd of the classes in the game, yet have the lowest population..

Are EQ players racist?

Erudites are ugly and start from middle of nowhere

[myriverse]

Erudite females are the hottest.

[Dulu]

Originally Posted by Tikku82 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Erudites are ugly and start from middle of nowhere

Middle of no-where, yet they have docks that go to almost anywhere.

[xious]

Just dropping by to say that the database has more than 10 000 unique characters now, 10 061 to be exact [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Barahir]

How exactly is this data compiled and how accurate are the guild numbers?

[xious]

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

How exactly is this data compiled and how accurate are the guild numbers?

The data is retrieved client side through what essentially consists of a bunch of social macros which do "/who all cleric 1 10, /pause 10, /who all cleric 11 20" (etc).
The output is logged, parsed and matched against the database.

If the character is not in the database, it is inserted.
If the character is in the database, it is updated.

I log at various times (morning, afternoon, evening, night) to try and catch all timezones.

So, right now, the database has 10399 unique characters. The "oldest" characters I have in the database date back as far as 2013-01-19 16:40:03. This means I haven't "seen" them since then.

Hope this answers your question [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[eqravenprince]

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

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The "oldest" characters I have in the database date back as far as 2013-01-19 16:40:03. This means I haven't "seen" them since then.

That might be me!!! What's the characters name?

[xious]

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

That might be me!!! What's the characters name?

There's a few thousand characters that my parser hasn't seen in a few months [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[baalzy]

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

Interesting that Erudites have the best stats for 1/3rd of the classes in the game, yet have the lowest population..

Are EQ players racist?

Cleric: Not the worst but def not 'best'. Similar stats to several other races but no racial abilities/bonus' to make them stand out like hide/sneak/xp bonus from a halfling or just hide from dark elf. From a pure stat standpoint dwarf is hard to ignore with that huge str/stam advantage.

Enchanter: A very viable choice, however, High Elf edges them out for best since +cha is harder to acquire than +int. Human is up there too but doesn't have a super clear advantage, probably a tie.

Magician: No truly clear winner, but I'd concede erudite if you pressed it. The margins are extremely slim.

Necromancer: Iksar master race. Beyond that bertoxx following gnomes are actually very well tolerated compared to CT & Inny followers (dubious/apprehensive in a lot of places where other necros would be KoS). From a lvl 60 not caring about faction standpoint the Erudite probably takes second because of erudite specific itemization.

Shadowknight: Ogre, Troll are very clear winners. Human and Iksar runners up, though that dex/agil on the iksar i'm sure helps. Erudite and Dark Elf can squabble over last place although I'd probably give it to the erudites because of how far behind their agility/dex is to the DE.

Paladin: Dwarf and Human clearly have the edge. The high elf and erudite can have a sissy fight over who is weaker though.

Wizard: See mage.