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

[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.

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[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.]

[Barahir]

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

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.

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So no tracking of /anon or /role then?

[xious]

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

So no tracking of /anon or /role then?

They come up. I have the character names.
For anon players, all I have is their name, for roleplaying I have their guild - if any:
http://p1999pop.dmsimard.com/details/Levels/ANONYMOUS

I've thought in the past about implementing "/who all <X> count" but it's really about the characters, not the numbers. I'd rather have the characters [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[xious]

No clue what is going on but I am picking up new characters like crazy recently.
Could it be the EQMac influx ?

At more than 12k characters now.

[Gecko]

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

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 I'm not mistaken /who call count actually ignores role and anon for class statistics. You might want to change your script to use that.

[huron99]

/who all cleric count or /who all 1 10 cleric count will include anon/role afaik. Just not specific names.