~Server Watch~

[LiteX]

This server watch is something that tells the number of servers and the % of which rates they are, I have been getting curious on the number of servers in the listing so i decided to make this, this will be updated every Saturday, of course results might be skewed since this is just RMS, but it still gets close

-June 6
532 Total Servers
   *105 LR (~19.74%)
   *94 MR (~17.66%)
   *237 HR (~44.55%)
   *96 SHR (~18.05%)

-June 13
542 Total Servers
   *104 LR (~19.19%)
   *94 MR (~17.34%)
   *244 HR (~45.02%)
   *100 SHR (~18.45%)

-June 20
539 Total Servers
   *107 LR (~19.85%)
   *99 MR (~18.37%)
   *231 HR (~42.85%)
   *102 SHR (~18.93%)

-June 27
530 Total Servers
   *102 LR (~19.25%)
   *99 MR (~18.68%)
   *233 HR (~43.96%)
   *96 SHR (~18.11%)

This Week's Differences:
LR: -5 Servers (Decrease of ~0.60% in position)
MR: +0 Servers (Increase of ~0.31% in position)
HR: +2 Servers (Increase of ~1.11% in position)
SHR: -6 Servers (Decrease of ~0.82% in position)

[Green]

Hmm.
I'm slightly surprised at the number of MRs. Thought it would have been more.

Looks like we are all LR or HR elitists.


Edit; No chance of also counting the amount of reviews each section has, as an idea as to general population outlie?

[Hutchy]

Too many of everything, imo.

[Loki]

Looks like most private server owner prefer to host and administrate High Rate. Even though they are the most controversial.

[horo]

Interesting, and what a huge number. Probably 90% of those have less than 50 players.

[Xarale]

Interesting, and what a huge number. Probably 90% of those have less than 50 players.

Sadly it's true.  I checked out a lot of MRs a month or two ago, and the majority of them had around 20-30 players, if not less.  Not sure about the HRs or LRs, but I would assume a lot of them also have under 50 players.

[Green]

Sadly it's true.  I checked out a lot of MRs a month or two ago, and the majority of them had around 20-30 players, if not less.

Does this include vendors?

[LiteX]

Sadly it's true.  I checked out a lot of MRs a month or two ago, and the majority of them had around 20-30 players, if not less.

Does this include vendors?

Possibly not, though, aRO has about 20% of it's players vendors, if not, more

And I will add it to the nearest hundreth decimal, if Pow insists

[Xarale]

Sadly it's true.  I checked out a lot of MRs a month or two ago, and the majority of them had around 20-30 players, if not less.

Does this include vendors?

For some of the servers I checked, yes it did.  Some others had around 20-30 active players, not including vendors.  Keep in mind this was only various MRs I checked, I have no clue how populated various LR & HR servers are.

[Green]

For some of the servers I checked, yes it did.  Some others had around 20-30 active players, not including vendors.  Keep in mind this was only various MRs I checked, I have no clue how populated various LR & HR servers are.

Interesting.

I might go add up how many reviews each section has later.
It'll be interesting to see where the major percentage of reviews go.

[Ayu]

My question is rather, how many of them are actually that different from each other?

Cause if there's really that many server and not all of them are unique/different, why are there "duplicate servers" existing then ._.;?

[fluidin]

Because people like to make servers for t3h s*** and giggles.

No, not jk.

[Green]

What server isn't made for such a reason? =P

The fact we can't charge gameply fees rules out most other reasons.

*goes back to adding reviews*



@Ayu: So they can prance around being an admin. XD


Edit:
So. I did counting. At the time, if I can count, there were 5502 reviews. The breakdown is like this:


LR: 1356. (~24.65%)
Only the first 75 had reviews. (~71.43%)


MR: 1081. (~19.65%)
Only the first 75 had reviews. (~79.79%)


HR: 1843. (~33.50%)
Only the first 178 had reviews. (~75.11%)


SHR: 1222. (~22.21%)
Only the first 76 had reviews. (~79.17%)

[horo]

My question is rather, how many of them are actually that different from each other?

Cause if there's really that many server and not all of them are unique/different, why are there "duplicate servers" existing then ._.;?

I think the ease of setting up a basic server is really hurting the community and resulting in a great number of poorly set up duplicates with nothing to offer but an underage GM that wanted to make a server of his own.

I do think that players who join such poor servers wouldn't exactly add quality to good servers, but a bigger population does improve a lot of aspects such as economy, finding parties and guild competition.

[LiteX]

My question is rather, how many of them are actually that different from each other?

Cause if there's really that many server and not all of them are unique/different, why are there "duplicate servers" existing then ._.;?

I think the ease of setting up a basic server is really hurting the community and resulting in a great number of poorly set up duplicates with nothing to offer but an underage GM that wanted to make a server of his own.

I do think that players who join such poor servers wouldn't exactly add quality to good servers, but a bigger population does improve a lot of aspects such as economy, finding parties and guild competition.

Agree, the most sad part, many of the servers were made by those who spam "HELP ME PLX I NID MAKE SERVER HELP!" in RMS