question about population.

marcelerykpl

Hi mods and gm's.
I wonder if there is any information what is the curret populations on servers na west, is there information provide to check?
- the purpose is only personal, bcs its relly interesting think.

Would be very nice if any can help me find these informations, thanks for your time.


# viva la cf west :cool:

Utmost

I don't think the GM's will share this information, you'd have to find out yourself..

marcelerykpl

Utmost wrote: »

I don't think the GM's will share this information, you'd have to find out yourself..

ok mate, thanks for answer.
then counting is start from today. ;c

Ixith

well in the past when they did GM streams still, the channel the GMs would be in to play would usually fill up fast to the point of being full and wouldnt have many if any matches running other than the GM one. The player count in the channel would be around 250. So if we assume each channel as a max of around 250 players. Each Server can hold 10 channels. So each server is roughly 2,500 players. At peak times during the day NA Alpha is full and NA Beta is usually close to half full sometimes even higher. Meanwhile EU Delta and EU gamma are usually pretty much full as well. Then there's the people in the various other servers...but if we take the main NA and EU ones into account first that'd be about 8750 players online at peak time minimum. Then not everyone that plays CF is on during that time and some people aren't on every day. So i'd say we're probably in the 12,000-15,000 player range per day maybe add as much as an extra 1,000 different player per week for those that only get on every so often.

This also shows in that if you consider only a fraction of players can afford VIP or are willing to buy VIPs yet the Armored Beast Collection which was sold all at once has 1,372 collectors. If 1/10 players buys the full set that'd put us to 13,720. Now we can't be sure the % of players that has bought VIP but i'm willing to say it's no greater than 1/8 since most of our population either can't afford or doesnt want to buy VIPs.

olpers

Ixith wrote: »

well in the past when they did GM streams still, the channel the GMs would be in to play would usually fill up fast to the point of being full and wouldnt have many if any matches running other than the GM one. The player count in the channel would be around 250. So if we assume each channel as a max of around 250 players. Each Server can hold 10 channels. So each server is roughly 2,500 players. At peak times during the day NA Alpha is full and NA Beta is usually close to half full sometimes even higher. Meanwhile EU Delta and EU gamma are usually pretty much full as well. Then there's the people in the various other servers...but if we take the main NA and EU ones into account first that'd be about 8750 players online at peak time minimum. Then not everyone that plays CF is on during that time and some people aren't on every day. So i'd say we're probably in the 12,000-15,000 player range per day maybe add as much as an extra 1,000 different player per week for those that only get on every so often.

This also shows in that if you consider only a fraction of players can afford VIP or are willing to buy VIPs yet the Armored Beast Collection which was sold all at once has 1,372 collectors. If 1/10 players buys the full set that'd put us to 13,720. Now we can't be sure the % of players that has bought VIP but i'm willing to say it's no greater than 1/8 since most of our population either can't afford or doesnt want to buy VIPs.

lxith is right. However, I'd still like to add some more info as I,myself, was once intrigued to know about the population of CF. CFNA is the 2nd most populous version of crossfire after CF China.

There are 4871 Marshals in our game as of date. Its still not easy to become General or Marshal in this game as you have to farm with VIPs day n night for countless days. There are 15000 Players who have the rank of 1 star or above. IMO its very rare to see a player with two different accounts rank above 1 star so we can say that these 15000 players are 15000 different individuals.

As i said, its not easy to reach 1 star rank or above. More than 80% of the player base is below 1 star rank so to reach a definite amount of active players is kinda hard. I am playing this game since 2009 and I still have 2 star rank (Major General) and my rank is 11944. I consider myself an active CF player.

BTW There are total 11,340,438 accounts made in CF West comprising of active, inactive and duplicate accounts. if we assume that only 1% of the total accounts are active then it would be around 11K accounts.

We can compare these figures with accounts on discord for confirmation. Right now 1262 members are online on Discord and whenever I check, the amount of online players are always higher than 900. We can safely deduce that more than 900 players are always active on CF. Of course, population of online members on Discord is way below that of actual active players playing CF. I am not on discord as of yet and there are many more who aren't.

You can also judge the number of active players by looking at the active players in Ranked matches. I mean my current rank in SnD ranked matches is platinum level 2 and i am on 5480th position and I started playing ranked matches just 3 weeks ago.

Utmost

Very nice theories, though I find [USER="10913166"]Ixith[/USER]'s a bit more factual. I think it's incredibly hard to determine how many players are online at a certain time, it would be nice if we'd be able to more easily.