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>From: "Jheremai the Scarlet" <apenney@lpr.com.au>
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>Subject: active players
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>This was taken off a turn 94 public turn
>
> Game totals: Players: 358
>
> Faction [uv6] rank
> ------------- ----
> Characters: 4 232nd
> Men: 16 231st
> Gold: 0 272nd
> Land controlled: 0 182nd
> Skills known: 0/74 268th
> Spells known: 0/79 237th
> Provinces visited: 0/31,919 265th
>
>Now if we look at these figures some interesting conclusions appear.
>
>Total players 358 but there are 267 factions with more than zero
>skills. This means there are 90 factions who have never completed
>learning a skill.
>
>Similarly there are 93 factions who have never left the safe haven
>city they started in.
>
>Now to my mind these must be factions that joined for a turn or two,
>didn't do much and never filed another turn.
>
>I know of several factions that got past these fairly minimal
>milestones and for one reason or another are inactive and not filing
>turns. Some have been like this for 40 turns or so.
>
>So my question is: How many active factions are playing?
>
>It is a lot less than 358. I suspect it is less the 264 factions
>that have left the safe haven. Assuming my reasoning is right I would
>make it about 200. Anybody else got any thoughts?
>
>Andrew
>
>PS I'm assuming that in the rankings all factions with the same no of
>skills/spells/etc will all be ranked the same and that this ranking
>is one more than the next ordinal up.
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