February 2019 statto post
No surprises but kills, deathblows, and solo kills, as well as level 50 characters earning RPs (all measured per week) are all significantly down over the last few weeks.
The caveats I usually post ad nauseum about the data, where it comes from, and any issues with it all stand. You're free to interpret the data however you want - I just present it (and even then Vanesyra does the hard work), but it's up to players to discuss what's driving changes.
Data here is taken from Vanesyra's site at excidio.net, where you can browse away to your heart's content - a lot of data there.
Year on Year comparison
Year on year RvR character counts for the most recent week were down 36% compared to the same period one year ago (kills down 42%, deathblows down 44%).
By comparison, the first week of January 2019, compared to one year earlier, saw level 50 RvR character counts up 6%, kills up 31%, and deathblows up 12%.
The decline has happened in a few weeks for somewhat obvious reasons. Of all the realms, Midgard has been hit hardest (I think several BG leaders left), followed by Albion, and then Hibernia (the main BG leader remains on Ywain).
Overall declines, first week of January 2019 compared to most recent week (6 week period)
Level 50 characters earning at least one RP in a given week
Number of kills by players by year
Number of deathblows by players by year
The caveats I usually post ad nauseum about the data, where it comes from, and any issues with it all stand. You're free to interpret the data however you want - I just present it (and even then Vanesyra does the hard work), but it's up to players to discuss what's driving changes.
Data here is taken from Vanesyra's site at excidio.net, where you can browse away to your heart's content - a lot of data there.
Year on Year comparison
Year on year RvR character counts for the most recent week were down 36% compared to the same period one year ago (kills down 42%, deathblows down 44%).
By comparison, the first week of January 2019, compared to one year earlier, saw level 50 RvR character counts up 6%, kills up 31%, and deathblows up 12%.
The decline has happened in a few weeks for somewhat obvious reasons. Of all the realms, Midgard has been hit hardest (I think several BG leaders left), followed by Albion, and then Hibernia (the main BG leader remains on Ywain).
Overall declines, first week of January 2019 compared to most recent week (6 week period)
Level 50 characters earning at least one RP in a given week
Number of kills by players by year
Number of deathblows by players by year
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See NEW one year of DAoC data - April 2018 - March 2019
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See NEW one year of DAoC data - April 2018 - March 2019
Simon's cast speed and archery speed tests - plus 4.2 standard shot, and acuity and spell damage tests!
Twitch - Simon_DAoC
YouTube - saved fights and videos, and The Adventures of Simbar (video)
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Tc for the info posted m8
https://divoxutils.com/users/user_2ZTPHy8tjVF9LWMgujSZfCY9Mos/characters
I rather blame the non-criticized huge efforts put into Name Change that took months to make, then fix. Yes, it may also bring in some $ but that one really took effort to make, resulting Endless Conquest, fixes delay possibly, while gameplay-wise it was completely irrelevant. Why masks get all the hate?
Because nobody wanted them. Bugs, crashes and cheating on the other hand...
I see people around with masks. We all know designing a mask don't take much time compared to income, nor has to do anything with bug fixes.
Otherwise sure, as said, maybe the timing wasn't right.
Edit: It's like saying you don't like it so it shouldn't take away time from devs (which not really), but name and race change which does take much more effort and you like is fine. I don't have issues with that either, and it's been asked for, but when we criticize bad priorities, we should look at ours too. People bought those masks, so it's not like nobody wanted them.
https://divoxutils.com/users/user_2ZTPHy8tjVF9LWMgujSZfCY9Mos/characters
Hope you enjoy your highlander inf preaching about priorities.
https://divoxutils.com/users/user_2ZTPHy8tjVF9LWMgujSZfCY9Mos/characters
There ya go. None asked for it.