Spring RTS Engine

I'm pretty sure the Spring player stats page has been gone for a while. Does anyone have up to date stats about the player count? I'm interested to see what the "peak hours" are for Spring. It is a huge pain to get a decent sized game together when there's only 130-180 people on, compared to 200 or 300+ people.

http://planetspring.free.fr/spring/stats/graph_53.html



http://planetspring.free.fr/spring/stats/graph_50.html



USA gets screwed, as number of ingame players goes from 150 down to about 50 during our peak hours

Is that hour graph in GMT?

not sure, but its either GMT or French time which is an hr different, so to get to central US time its either -5 or -6 hrs

-6 gmt is us central time

Spring playerbase has increased a bit lately

yeah, noticed that we have more players. wonder what caused this; was it all S44, or maybe springinfo, or what? whatever it was, we need more of it ^^

GMT -6 is US central time, but we're on daylight saving time so we're technically in CDT (Central Daylight Time) which is GMT - 5.

So, according to the graph the peak hours are 3:30PM to 5PM right now.

el_matarife wrote:GMT -6 is US central time, but we're on daylight saving time so we're technically in CDT (Central Daylight Time) which is GMT - 5.

So, according to the graph the peak hours are 3:30PM to 5PM right now.

sounds about right, i hosted an 8v8 game that immediately filled up at about 5 today

Looks like the number of players has been steadily growing since december (while previously it has been stagnating for at least 6 months):
http://planetspring.free.fr/spring/stats/graph_50.html

Also, I had no idea 1vs1 battles were actually so popular! Or are those just people using TASClient for singleplayer?
http://planetspring.free.fr/spring/stats/graph_71.html

maybe the 1vs1 games are devs testing stuff.
though i hardly test through the lobby.

But our noob retention rate is still horrible

Beherith wrote:But our noob retention rate is still horrible

hard to say based on that, but it looks like dark green has grown a bit.

Yeah been quite easy to get a 1v1 laterly, a few months ago i could have wait all day and been lucky to get one verse someone who just started and wanted to see how it works.

Beherith wrote:But our noob retention rate is still horrible

no, see in early march everyone was noob -_________-

I assume the periodic spikes are weekends, which is why the spikes are less pronounced during the summer months.

Yellow is burning my eyes :\

Wisse wrote:

Yellow is burning my eyes :\

It's not as bad when you look at this

Lolsquad_Steven wrote:Yeah been quite easy to get a 1v1 laterly, a few months ago i could have wait all day and been lucky to get one verse someone who just started and wanted to see how it works.

As far as I can see, 1vs1 games were always the most popular (though maybe it's because they need 8 times less players than a 8vs8...)

If you look at the number of players, we have now almost the same number of players in 1vs1, 3-8 players, 9-12 players, and 13-16 players games, with 3-8 and 9-12 player games slightly more popular.

13-16 games were seldom played before november-december 2008, which is interesting because it correlates with the increase of the player base. Did most of the new players went to play these games?