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scandum · 04-21-2011, 08:42 AM

Something is not quite right about the day/night flux of Aardwolf.

Aardwolf goes from a low of 270 to a high of 380, while Batmud goes from a low of 110 to a high of 230. Tapestries MUCK goes from a low of 300 to a high of 800.

Assuming Aardwolf's statistics are due to idling the active playerbase might be smaller than BatMUD's, though that doesn't fully explain the difference in TMS ranking, which could be explained by automatic voting by casual idling players. If that was the case you'd see a difference on a voting site that uses a captcha, like TMC, and it does.

So to figure out the number of active players you'd want to subtract the low from the high.

04-21-2011, 08:42 AM	#14
scandum Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 315	Re: LFM Something is not quite right about the day/night flux of Aardwolf. Aardwolf goes from a low of 270 to a high of 380, while Batmud goes from a low of 110 to a high of 230. Tapestries MUCK goes from a low of 300 to a high of 800. Assuming Aardwolf's statistics are due to idling the active playerbase might be smaller than BatMUD's, though that doesn't fully explain the difference in TMS ranking, which could be explained by automatic voting by casual idling players. If that was the case you'd see a difference on a voting site that uses a captcha, like TMC, and it does. So to figure out the number of active players you'd want to subtract the low from the high.