It’s not even that,60 is the majority of those who use the addon on your server.
It appears you think 8% is a really big number. I think you’re confusing it with this
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Even if the data was accurate no one is gonna see it. The site is so slow you’d have to start it before you go to bed and check it when you wake up in the morning.
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The level of the person using the addon is irrelevant. All it does is send a series of filtered /who commands until every player online has been accounted for and collects that data into a file. You can do this at level 1 or level 60 and the data and results will be the same.
The page OP links says 60s represent 8%-9% of the population.
Not sure how he thinks that means ‘Majority of players are level 60.’
Last I checked 8% is less than 51% (a majority).
But with that said, if you look at most of the data on that site it isn’t very good. Many servers only have horde data, or only have alliance data. Are sample weighted for ‘prime time?’
I’m guessing OP is from U.S. Our elections are decided by ‘largest block’ not a ‘majority block,’ but many think the ‘largest block’ represents a ‘majority.’
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That is the weirdest distribution curve I have ever seen. It’s basically a flat line from LVL 2 to LVL 59. With bump at 1 and 60.
Not sure how I would explain it, other than something odd is going on with your population.
I do and spam chat for dungeons.
I personally think you are misconstruing the data.
There are more players at 60 than there are at any other specific level between 30-50 which makes sense since you can’t progress after 60.
However total players of any level between 30-50 will still heavily outnumber those at level 60.
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Not really, players at level 1 are any character that has been created but not played, including bank alts, name reserves etc.
Players at 60 are players who can no longer gain levels.
All those in between are constantly shifting between different levels at different rates. Depending on peoples levelling speed there could be more players at 47 one day then more at 49 the next.
Those values are always in flux whereas level 60 and level 1 (potentiall) are relatively fixed.
Zero data for my server’s horde side, so yeah I’m gonna take this census with a healthy scoop of salt
I doubt this is accurate.
Arugal shows near 40k Horde and less than 2k Alliance.
I know it is Horde heavy, this seems a bit over the top.
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I know it’s a hard concept, but considering how far off that data is, it raises high suspicions on every other data gleaned from the addon. To top it off, in fine print it’s from beta lol. But feel free to believe it, it’s not like it’s dependent on players installing this addon over another one or anything.
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According to the source, 9% are 60.
9% is not a majority. 51% is a majority. Level 60s make up a plurality of players 1-60. If you do 10-60 to omit bank alts and the like, then its still only 11%. Still a plurality not a majority.
The only level range that grants a majority to level 60s is in the 51-60 range.
When you adjust it to 30-50, you see a downward trend in levels until you hit 60 (which makes sense. a 58 becomes 59 and 59 becomes 60 and characters don’t level past 60).
Eventually 60 will make up a majority of active players. But we’re far away from that yet. When you look at 10-60 you see more 10s than 11s, more 11s than 12s, and so forth and so forth until 60 (with slight anomalies at 20, 30, 40, and 50 due to those being 10 unit capstones).
So there is still more people lower level than not. With a bias towards 60 since everyone eventually reaches 60 (if they don’t, well then they become inactive and fall from the counts).
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“I don’t see anyone level 40ish” - level 40 paladin
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OK. . . So? It still shows there are more people are not level 60.
You started this off stating “New manual census addon data confirming majority of players are level 60” you are now admitting that is not the case. So whats the point of this entire post?
Yep. The data also can easily be stated as 61% of the population on that server happens to not be level 60.
That is not accurate either as there is no way of telling how many times data was uploaded, it is also missing any Alliance data points. This could easily have been a onetime snapshot during a popular raiding window, this would massively skew the data.
Also want to point out that this seems kind of cherry picked as all of the other servers I have looked at so far do not have that high of a percentage of level 60s.
@Girder
If the entire point of this post was to make a contradicting statement to so people would come debate the merits of this data, making more people aware of the updated Census Plus addon. . .
Congrats, it worked. I’m downloading it now.
The other option is you misread the data when you were looking at the stats which added to your confirmation bias that most people are level 60 already.
I really hope it was the first of those options.
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58% horde to 42% alliance for all realms!? Highly unlikely, maybe for pvp realms, not pve.
Interestingly, this does show a million characters being played recently above level 10, and its clearly an undercount with several factions/realms missing. Game is still going strong 2 months in!
If 100% of the playerbase doesn’t use that addon, it’s 100% fallable.
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my entire guild (30 people) are lvl 52 and under, the maps I am doing at lvl 34 seem to be very busy, i do not see that many lvl 60 running around the city, under 60 seems to be far greater.
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This project is highly dependant on community participation, because the statistics are only as good as of how many people have the CensusPlusClassic addon installed and submit their collected data to the website.
Read that, slowly.
Do you really think the ‘‘majority’’ of the population has this addon installed ?
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The census itself says it is highly dependent on players joining.
In other words it is a count of census members, NOT of all players.
Your conclusion (majority of all players) is false and is contradicted by the website itself.
That makes no sense and you’re not understanding.
The more people that use the addon on more realms the more data points we will have and a wider range of times at which the census may have been taken to represent an accurate depiction of the playerbase, but the addon is not only counting the people that have it installed.
If you use the addon you would understand how it works and it’s very simple, nothing you can’t do yourself in fact, just a series of /who commands with filters for level brackets, classes and races of the people online at a given time and then that data is stored into a database file that is parsed by the site.
It works the exact same as the census addon that blizzard broke last month (it actually IS the same addon), but now the /who commands have to be manually triggered by clicking the interface.