Using the armory is over all a better way to get the stats and I'm not talking about the character history or activity or anything else like that.
What i mean are the clean stats. xx% horde characters existing on realm xx for example. No filter at all.
For that a armory Analysis can't be tricked out and it's the best way over all.
The coolest thing would be if the armory itself would have alle the information warcaftrealms is given. Not that i want to underrate your hard work you did the last years. But if a side would have to make millions of request to analyse all 4 (or was it 3 or what ^^?) armorys its kinda ineffective.
Thats what i wanted to say first.
To get to the quote above..Balgair wrote:Problem with that logic is there's more characters at 80 than at 10-79 right now
What also was mentioned here in the thread is that max level chars are very static. So scanning one time per month for them to update all characters that census could not catch up is a good way to get the right stats.
But you can't scan characters from 10 to 79/84 who are frequently updating only one time per month...