Just some population graphs

[Wholdar]

I enjoy observing trends and have often looked at the current population numbers displayed on RoR's homepage. However, I couldn’t find any graphs or visualizations for these numbers over time—perhaps I missed something!

Being curious, I’ve taken the liberty of scraping the webpage every 5 minutes (hopefully none of the RoR devs object to this—if so, just let me know, and I’ll stop) and feeding the data into an old trusty RRD file. From there, I generate a few graphs, also every 5 minutes.

Here’s the result:
https://maartenson.net/ror_graph.html

Maybe someone else will find this interesting, and it should get more compelling as more data accumulates. I’ve only been scraping for about two days so far.

/j

[Altheion]

Man, no wonder order is getting cooked when there's like 2-3 full WB's more on destro side on average.

[bw10]

so all graphs bigger than daily show 1:1 who wouldve thought huh

[dizc0]

Are you only grabbing faction numbers or are you also getting class/race numbers? Would be fun to see a graph over archetype/class popularity.

[Wholdar]

Are you only grabbing faction numbers or are you also getting class/race numbers? Would be fun to see a graph over archetype/class popularity.

Right now I'm only scraping the data from RoR's own homepage, I'm fiddling with checking the killboard-data. The archetype/class popularity is a cool idea! Thanks!

/j

[3rdworldofficer]

This is really neat. Also, if this is accurate info, and I'm reading it correctly, then that means Order is almost always outnumbered, which is surprising to me- I always thought more would choose Order. Guess not.

[yoluigi]

Pretty cool it's somehow balance some mmo's are broken here it's can bounce back to back i remember 2020 it was destro heavy. after that went order etc Aint that bad now to be honest

[Toshutkidup]

Great info, well appreciated.

[dizc0]

Are you only grabbing faction numbers or are you also getting class/race numbers? Would be fun to see a graph over archetype/class popularity.

Right now I'm only scraping the data from RoR's own homepage, I'm fiddling with checking the killboard-data. The archetype/class popularity is a cool idea! Thanks!

/j

Cool! Would love to see those graphs if you ever make them.

I was thinking you could get the data from the Who is online-list (https://www.returnofreckoning.com/whos_online.php), but the killboard would contain more data to analyze. Clever!

[shoelessHN]

This is really neat. Also, if this is accurate info, and I'm reading it correctly, then that means Order is almost always outnumbered, which is surprising to me- I always thought more would choose Order. Guess not.

During NA order zerged the server for like 2 years straight.

But a lot of them are the same players they just swap to the side that gets easy keeps/forts because it is rewarded and defending a keep from the zerg has almost zero reward.