14-01-2005 12:52									#61
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Hmm what difficulty level are we at? Should we raise the luxury rate, make 1/3 of the members into entertainers, or build a temple?

	14-01-2005 17:13									#62
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quote: Originally posted by Smiley Hmm what difficulty level are we at? Should we raise the luxury rate, make 1/3 of the members into entertainers, or build a temple?

No need - Ming is the equivalent of 4 or 5 military police units.

	14-01-2005 18:19									#63
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20k entertainers? Perish the thought ...

	26-02-2005 17:23									#64
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Hmmmm...statistics...nicely done Locutus!


I have a couple of ideas for further statistics. If you have some time left to burn, of course...

Is it possible to get pagecounts for "lurkers"? (e.a people who read threads but don't post often) and compare lurker vs poster activity?

Can you do an S-curve and normal distribution of the post activity? (No. of total posts and yearly/monthly/daily average) with a cutoff point of actual activity let's say... 1 year?

Is there a way to make subcategories for the forum? (Civ2, Civ3, CtP, other etc..). I would like to know the size of the active communities (people who post weekly/monthly in a specific forum category)

	26-02-2005 18:01									#65
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Wow, you don't want much do you?

	26-02-2005 21:59									#66
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Hmmm...not even a thousand regulars. That is actually lower than I thought.

Asmodean

	27-02-2005 00:30									#67
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But some of them sure does much out of themselves, don't they?

	27-02-2005 03:45									#68
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quote: But some of them sure does much out of themselves, don't they?

Is that English?

	27-02-2005 04:07									#69
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I thought so, but I'm not native Enligh speaker. It's probably just my Norwegian coming into play, it's much like a Norwegian expresion. I meant that some people is more visible than others, understand?

	27-02-2005 17:50									#70
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Cap,

To keep it very short, the answer to all your questions is: No

No, I don't have time to burn and no, all the extra stats you suggest require access to SQL to gather the data, which I don't have. I just use the memberlist that's available to everyone, which gives only very general info on the posting activities over the entire site. Only Markos or Gramphos could gather the data you would like, but I'm sure they have better things to do.

At the very most I could keep track of the total number of posts made in every section/forum in a certain timeframe, but with over 80 forums that would take a lot of time (especially since posts are periodically archived), more than I'm able to commit.

Thanks for your suggestions, they are always welcome, but in this case I can't really use them...

	27-02-2005 22:43									#71
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Locutus,

Hey, it never hurts to ask doesn't it?

I already feared these sort of detailed statistics might require direct access to the DB. With a good selection of records and a good statistical program there's all sorts of things you could analyze.

And, as anyone who works with statistics will warn you, the devil is in the details...

	28-02-2005 01:57									#72
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Less than 1k regular posters. How many of those post about Civ with an regularity?

	02-03-2005 03:47									#73
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quote: Originally posted by Asmodean Hmmm...not even a thousand regulars. That is actually lower than I thought. Asmodean

well thats good, i dont want alot of folks making emperor before I do

	02-03-2005 06:32									#74
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist Less than 1k regular posters. How many of those post about Civ with an regularity?

well some do

	08-03-2005 00:12									#75
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Holy crap, there were only around 8,000 members when I joined in late 2000, now there are 60,000?

	08-03-2005 01:45									#76
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Yeah, there has been a huge increase of members since then...

	09-03-2005 18:57									#77
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quote: Originally posted by Odin Holy crap, there were only around 8,000 members when I joined in late 2000, now there are 60,000?

yeah, we get big increases whenever a new Civ game comes out, and old members never leave the books.

	09-03-2005 23:21									#78
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Some of them even enter twice.

	10-03-2005 00:56									#79
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Except AH...

	10-03-2005 18:00									#80
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Once a 'polytubbie, always a 'polytubbie. Even death is no escape.

	11-03-2005 00:01									#81
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You are undead?

	11-03-2005 00:18									#82
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That's not at all far from the truth. He _is_ a swede, isn't he

Asmodean

P.S. Just some inter-scandinavian pwnage

	11-03-2005 04:31									#83
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I was merely hinting at the fact that dying won't make your 'Poly account go away ...

MarkG will make money out of you as you ROT IN YOUR GRAVE!!!!!!!!!!!one!!!!

	11-03-2005 15:09									#84
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Does he have oil rights to our plots?

Although I think crematoriums make better energy efficient usage....

	11-03-2005 19:48									#85
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quote: Originally posted by Asmodean That's not at all far from the truth. He _is_ a swede, isn't he Asmodean P.S. Just some inter-scandinavian pwnage

Ah! Nothing like some swede-bashing, ain't it my dear "kartoffel-i-munnen"?

	11-03-2005 23:39									#86
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quote: Originally posted by Dauphin Does he have oil rights to our plots?

That too, but I was refering to the fact that when you're dead, your 'Poly account will still be around, and inflate the number of members MarkG tells to advertizers, thus enabling him to milk them for more cash.

	12-03-2005 00:39									#87
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Something tells me the glass is half empty for you.

	12-03-2005 03:05									#88
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike Something tells me the glass is half empty for you.

I'll have chocolate with mine, thank you.

	16-03-2005 00:06									#89
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike Something tells me the glass is half empty for you.

I prefer to think of it as in a linear combination of full and empty.

	16-03-2005 00:24									#90
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That comeback sure took a while.