Hey guys, I have a couple of characters on this realm, just curious if it's more horde or alliance balanced

[Koronar-stormrage]

Like as far as ratio of players.

[Rime-stormrage]

Apart from anecdotally based evidence does anyone even know for sure if their realm is one more than the other?

[Nikolis-elune]

From the pre-launch reddit survey responses and a few people on the server Discord running Census addon, it seems to be roughly 70/30 for Alliance.

[Kaerei-bloodhoof (Kaerei)]

One of the Atiesh Discord mods is running a census addon, and it looks to be 70/30 A:H right now.

13000 Alliance characters.
5500 Horde characters.

As of his last post update.

[Cashollary-atiesh]

This ratio means that Alliance might have a slightly easier time finding dungeon/raid groups, while Horde will have faster BG queues, once BGs are implemented.

[Kaerei-bloodhoof (Kaerei)]

New count:

Alliance: 30,100 characters.
Horde: 20,000 characters.

[Maerc-atiesh]

As of last night:

Alliance: 74,117 characters (10, 969 of which are level 1’s)
Horde: 35,726 characters

Of further note: According to testing done by WarcraftRealms, generic /who commands now only give results for people in your own layer. If you do a /who on a specific player, you should be able to get a result without regard to layer though.

[Maerc-atiesh]

Then Blizzard directly contradicts the claim:

@Pazorax-1880

Another popular theory is that you can determine your current layer by doing a /who in a capital city, and comparing the results against the /who your friend does. That doesn’t work because /who returns results from the entire realm, not just from your layer, and if the result set is too large it truncates the results before sorting them. This means every player gets different results, but those differences in result set have nothing to do with which layer you’re on. This has led some people to claim that they’ve discovered dozens of layers per realm, but that claim is completely false .