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Jul 28, 2010 ryan reign link
I figured that each square represented 250,000,000,000,000,000,000 players.
Jul 28, 2010 Death Fluffy link
Are you sure they don't represent the amount of coffee each of the dev's have had during that time period?
Jul 29, 2010 pirren link
looks like most of players aren't familiar with math and geometry at all.. lol, and they are called spaceship *pilots*.

shame on you
Jul 29, 2010 Roda Slane link
..."claim that each color is one user"...

Good idea.

The reality is, that either metric could be used, and while not always precise, still way too close to the truth. There is little on the scale to prove my assertion wrong, and even less to prove your's wrong.

User per color it is then. I stand corrected.
Jul 29, 2010 Alloh link
Impressive lack of Math skills...

That is a 'capped' graph, intentionally crafted to make impossible have direct measures to it, only relative variations.

Make the smallest number in series just above horizontal axis and all absolute information is gone. That what is done.

It makes impossible to know if VO had 1...50 players, or 50...999 or whatever 2 numbers where x2=x1+(Delta Variation)
Jul 29, 2010 look... no hands link
somebody just needs to have 10 active characters, all log off at exactly the same time, preferably when the level is already low, that'll create a cliff that can be used as a rough measure.
Jul 29, 2010 Roda Slane link
You are assuming that the scale is linear and not logarithmic or exponential or some other "expressive" formula. There is nothing to indicate what formula the scale uses, or that it even uses the same scale from one moment to the next. For all I know, the number of players is multiplied by the time of day.
Jul 30, 2010 incarnate link
I appreciate that not everyone agrees with the fact that the "player density graph" does not currently show absolute counts.

However, Roda, it is not acceptable for you to intentionally mislead new players by implying interpretations that are incorrect. Do not do this on my forums.

The graph is linear, it's the exact same graph we use for monitoring, with the numerical scale removed. Common sense pretty well dictates this. Concocting sarcastic low-ball interpretations of the graph data is little better than implying the source data is intentionally false to begin with. It isn't. It's current, and linear. It shows the relative density of players online, by nation, that's the point. Get over it.
Jul 30, 2010 Starpwn link
This isn't locked yet?
Jul 30, 2010 incarnate link
..fine.