Some arena numbers

[Jymamon]

After a couple days of DR, I got curious as to how many arena runs happen during the event so I set up a F2P to gather numbers.

Caveats:

1. He didn't start observing until Saturday (8/11) 10:18PM (Pacific).
2. I initially forgot to account for group entries, so I missed everyone other than the group leader until sometime Sunday afternoon.
3. If the F2P got logged out for any reason, my script waits 5 minutes to logon again, so even more might have been missed during the week.

With all those caveats on why these numbers are just a minimum, the numbers:

Total entries observed: 114,949
Unique characters entering the arena: 421
Max entries by a single character: 4673

No code has to be inserted here.

[Luntz]

Max entries by a single character: 4673

sups

[Stumplicker]

Jesus. Eye-opening. Thanks for that. Record the names of those 35 whales in the 1000+ entry category next time so we can shame them.

Even lowballing the lowball, 114,949 entries, assuming everybody got a decent price on simucoin purchases, call it $80,000 in entries, or 5333 monthly subscriptions. Just on one partial recording of one aspect of one DR. No wonder they abandoned all the other development. And this was a DR with people complaining that there was nothing good to buy!

[rolfard]

100,000 entries averaging 200 bs would be only 20m bs generated on the low end...

[Merzbow]

100,000 entries averaging 200 bs would be only 20m bs generated on the low end...

I'm sure 99% of the runs are max 275, so average would be more like 270. Let's say 120k times 270 is 32.4m BS. Then despite the lower BS payout there were a significant amount of people running sewers and heists. Just to half-ass, maybe 10m more?

[Orthin]

that is pretty nuts

[crb]

You know how Simu says people shouldn't AFK script.

Rofl.

If we are being kind and say it takes 100 seconds for a run as fast as possible. I'm pretty fucking fast and my best was 104 seconds. This is something like 127 hours of arena time.

But I guess if you're paying that kind of cash they don't care if you're at the keyboard or not.

[beldannon5]

And that doesnt take account us idiots in the sewers

[Fortybox]

So basically Wyrom was right.

[drumpel]

So, how many of you folks simply just have a good portion of your paychecks directly deposited into Simu's coffers?