DatgdMadooko
Pirate Apprentice
So, how many people do you think are active in Pirates Online?
1,000?
10,000?
1,000,000?
Well, I'm going to do my best to try to answer this question for you. Let me explain my strategy before showing you the numbers.
A few notes before we begin:
1. When a pirate only sinks ships and does not defeat any enemies, the amount of ships sunk will appear in both the "Ships Sunk" category as well as "Enemies Defeated" category in the leaderboards.
2. On the leaderboards: if you tie with someone, you will be able to see all of the pages of people that have tied with you.
So here's the strategy:
Everyday on one of my pirates, I will kill just one enemy per day for the month of August. I will then go to the leaderboards to see how many people defeated enemies that day. If I rank in 5000th place, tied with 17 pages of people, plus a few on the 18th page, I will add the number of people on the 18th page to 170 (there are 10 people per page on the leaderboards). Let's say that there are 5 people on the 18th page, so the total will be 175. Now I have to add 175 to 5000 to get 5175. So that means for that day, 5175 pirates were active… sort of.
These results, of course, don't include any pirates that didn't defeat any enemies that day. Roleplayers can be a good example of this. However, there are also people that log on to more than one pirate and defeat enemies. So with all of that in mind, the results are probably going to be off the bull's eye by no more than 100 people going either way.
I will then proceed to document the amount of players that defeated enemies in Excel and create graphs with minimums, maximums, medians, means and overall percent of change from the start of the week to the end of the week.
That's pretty much my entire strategy. However, I will probably continue to do this after the month ends.
Here's the first week of August:
I’m not the best with Excel, but I’m still learning. Also, the little bars sticking out of the lines are error bars. I've set them to plus or minus 100. I’ll try to find out how to put the maximum and minimum in the graph, but for now I’ll just tell you here:
Definitely more to come next week!
Best wishes~ Datgd
1,000?
10,000?
1,000,000?
Well, I'm going to do my best to try to answer this question for you. Let me explain my strategy before showing you the numbers.
A few notes before we begin:
1. When a pirate only sinks ships and does not defeat any enemies, the amount of ships sunk will appear in both the "Ships Sunk" category as well as "Enemies Defeated" category in the leaderboards.
2. On the leaderboards: if you tie with someone, you will be able to see all of the pages of people that have tied with you.
So here's the strategy:
Everyday on one of my pirates, I will kill just one enemy per day for the month of August. I will then go to the leaderboards to see how many people defeated enemies that day. If I rank in 5000th place, tied with 17 pages of people, plus a few on the 18th page, I will add the number of people on the 18th page to 170 (there are 10 people per page on the leaderboards). Let's say that there are 5 people on the 18th page, so the total will be 175. Now I have to add 175 to 5000 to get 5175. So that means for that day, 5175 pirates were active… sort of.
These results, of course, don't include any pirates that didn't defeat any enemies that day. Roleplayers can be a good example of this. However, there are also people that log on to more than one pirate and defeat enemies. So with all of that in mind, the results are probably going to be off the bull's eye by no more than 100 people going either way.
I will then proceed to document the amount of players that defeated enemies in Excel and create graphs with minimums, maximums, medians, means and overall percent of change from the start of the week to the end of the week.
That's pretty much my entire strategy. However, I will probably continue to do this after the month ends.
Here's the first week of August:
I’m not the best with Excel, but I’m still learning. Also, the little bars sticking out of the lines are error bars. I've set them to plus or minus 100. I’ll try to find out how to put the maximum and minimum in the graph, but for now I’ll just tell you here:
- The minimum number of pirates that played this week was 5144 (Wednesday).
- The maximum number of pirates that played this week was 5379 (Friday).
- The average number of pirates that played this week was about 5251.
Definitely more to come next week!
Best wishes~ Datgd
