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So many alts online, but not that many humans?
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Dawn Flare
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#41 - 2012-05-18 23:42:32 UTC
Lin-Young Borovskova wrote:
Adria Origin wrote:
Formal request for a GM/DEV to post a graph with data over a months time, this should have:

- online characters
vs
- unique IPs connected

Would be interesting.


And 25% of all EVE players have an alt? More like 25% admit to having an alt.


It's more or less what we were talking about, it's good to read more stuff before posting (should do it my self, dam)

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I have 6 accounts and 10 characters. Your statistics out of a hat are not impressive.

In fact I'd say it's more like 25% don't have an alt. I don't know anyone that doesn't have at least 2 accounts. The game almost requires it at a certain point.



Those are not statistics out of whatever hat, just random numbers when the discussion was about "what if 25% had ONLY 2 accounts" and yadayada. By the way I was exactly telling in a previous post that would be quite interesting to know how many unique IP's or MAC's addresses are actually connected when you see numbers like 40K plus characters on line.

Since most guys I know in game have in between same number than you and 20+ accounts I'm officially some casual player with my 2 accounts and reinforces the idea that when you see 40k IG you can actually think those are less than 10K unique MAC/IP connected.


Just an observation.

From what I have seen, mass multiboxers(counting this as 4+ accounts simultaneously, excluding bots) usually only log their fleets in for an hour or 2 a day. Admittedly, this is in nullsec, in a region owned by an alliance that actively deals with bots in a satisfyingly explosive manner, so it may be different elsewhere. This, however, leads me to believe that the number of unique MACs would sit closer to 50% or more than 25% of the total PCU.
knulla
Doomheim
#42 - 2012-05-18 23:49:21 UTC
I bet at most there are ever 10,000 unique players online, rest are alts or bots etc. But that is still more than most MMOs can handle on an entire server or shard while still using instances and not a persistent universe for all.

 [u]Malice Redeemer[/u] - "Post if you are unsubing over the new inventory"  Posted: 2012.05.23 01:39

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