by
Dean Lunz
23. March 2010 17:35
I've finished crawling the list of character names for SoE and like last weeks 2% drop in character population, this week the character population has dropped another 30% or so.
Rough population data for last 3 weeks
- March 23, 2010 = 8,727 -31.82%
- March 17, 2010 = 12,800 -2.73%
- March 8, 2010 = 13,160
Keep in mind that I am currently only crawling characters that are in a guild so there are probably many other characters that are being missed by my scans. After I begin to ramp up character tracking more and more of those unknown characters will get added into the known characters list.
Crawling character and statistics data for 8k+ toons can take upwards of 20Hrs which is part of why I am only scanning the SoE realm at this time. :)
There has been a bit of back tracking going on with the code I wrote and I am having to modify it somewhat now that I have a good idea of how much storage and data is being downloaded week to week. Once I finish making the code changes I will start crawling this weeks character data from the armory.
