Im not trying to be difficult at all. I love you are trying to get data.
The addons numbers aren’t accurate. The addon still relies on consistent uploading through the app. Less people are doing so.
How do you reconcile: Horde Census for Westfall
With your result?
Did the populations plummet that bad since September? Herod has routinely been 3x more populated than Westfall…so what gives?
Even doing the /who parses appear to be gated. Blizz is protecting this info and always has.
I’ll run hand parses on Atiesh (pretty decent size for PvE) later, and compare to census.
I agree vanilla caps were confirmed by Kern to be around 3500-4000 and they were dynamic back then.
Just because a cap is 3500, doesn’t mean 3,500 are online concurrently anymore than if caps are 10,000 that the number of people playing concurrently are 10k.
Saying 2k is less than 3.5k vanilla cap, (and therefore no server cap bump) doesn’t mean anything. To be fair, even if there was a bump in capacity, relative densities are what is important.