Max concurrent population

[Alanthus]

Was nuts enough to collate highest concurrent population for all servers in a table again, posting it here just in case someone else feels this strange urge to save them some time

The data is only as good as submissions of course, some servers like Archimonde actually have higher max populations but there are too few samples available to show that.

Oh, and I'm sure the formatting will be shredded posting but hopefully still legible.

Server ServerType Time Alliance Horde Ratio Total concurrent Max Notes:
Earthen Ring RP 22 2308 1033 2.2 : 1 3341
Warsong PVP 21 1854 1475 1.3 : 1 3329
Dark Iron PVP 20 1578 1747 1:1 3325
Argent Dawn RP 22 2372 946 2.5 : 1 3318
Dragonblight PVE 20 2314 984 2.4 : 1 3298
Arthas PVP 21 1943 1349 1.4 : 1 3292
Tichondrius PVP 20 1699 1548 1.1 : 1 3247
Skullcrusher PVP 22 1612 1622 1:1 3234
Hellscream PVE 21 1959 1242 1.6 : 1 3201
Illidan PVP 21 1539 1660 1:1.1 3199
Greymane PVE 19 2141 1053 2:1 3194
Blackrock PVP 23 1595 1596 1:1 3191
Feathermoon RP 19 2181 1007 2.2 : 1 3188
Shadow Council RP 20 2076 1090 1.9 : 1 3166
Burning Blade PVP 21 1789 1371 1.3 : 1 3160
Lightbringer PVE 20 2220 928 2.4 : 1 3148 poor
Sargeras PVP 21 1754 1392 1.3 : 1 3146
Cenarion Circle RP 19 2203 938 2.3 : 1 3141
Scarlet Crusade RP 21 2184 953 2.3 : 1 3137
Proudmoore PVE 19 2256 880 2.6 : 1 3136
Perenolde PVE 21 2096 1012 2.1 : 1 3108
Frostmane PVP 22 1738 1361 1.3 : 1 3099
Stormrage PVE 21 2102 994 2.1 : 1 3096
Blackhand PVE 21 1906 1168 1.6 : 1 3074
Silvermoon PVE 19 2212 855 2.6 : 1 3067
Bleeding Hollow PVP 21 1567 1479 1.1 : 1 3046
Ner'zhul PVP 20 1532 1512 1:1 3044
Doomhammer PVE 21 1991 1024 1.9 : 1 3015
Kel'Thuzad PVP 21 1700 1301 1.3 : 1 3001 poor
Zul'jin PVE 22 1769 1232 1.4 : 1 3001
Shadowsong PVE 20 2106 894 2.4 : 1 3000
Azjol-Nerub PVE 20 1899 1091 1.7 : 1 2990
Archimonde PVP 22 1452 1524 1:1 2976 very poor
Bloodhoof PVE 21 1908 1063 1.8 : 1 2971
Ursin PVP 21 1326 1631 1:1.2 2957
Whisperwind PVE 21 2164 791 2.7 : 1 2955
Burning Legion PVP 20 1651 1298 1.3 : 1 2949
Khadgar PVE 21 1963 974 2:1 2937
Bronzebeard PVE 19 2046 885 2.3 : 1 2931
Medivh PVE 21 2007 924 2.2 : 1 2931
Alleria PVE 21 2108 817 2.6 : 1 2925
Uther PVE 20 2061 862 2.4 : 1 2923
Silver Hand RP 21 1953 962 2:1 2915 poor
Suramar PVE 19 2019 894 2.3 : 1 2913
Windrunner PVE 19 2017 888 2.3 : 1 2905
Kargath PVE 22 2025 872 2.3 : 1 2897
Garona PVE 21 1992 888 2.2 : 1 2880
Shattered Hand PVP 21 1766 1108 1.6 : 1 2874
Dalaran PVE 21 1970 903 2.2 : 1 2873
Laughing Skull PVP 21 1436 1421 1:1 2857
Bloodscalp PVP 20 1342 1501 1:1.1 2843
Shadow Moon PVP 21 1699 1121 1.5 : 1 2820
Eonar PVE 22 1964 850 2.3 : 1 2814
Terenas PVE 20 1940 868 2.2 : 1 2808
Stormreaver PVP 20 1753 1054 1.7 : 1 2807 poor
Mannoroth PVP 22 1446 1352 1.1 : 1 2798
Lothar PVE 22 1874 918 2:1 2792
Durotan PVE 21 1870 912 2.1 : 1 2782
Icecrown PVE 20 1971 798 2.5 : 1 2769
Gilneas PVE 22 1935 833 2.3 : 1 2768 poor
Azgalor PVP 20 1639 1128 1.5 : 1 2767
Kil'Jaeden PVP 20 1708 1056 1.6 : 1 2764
Hyjal PVE 20 1855 905 2.1 : 1 2760
Deathwing PVP 19 1502 1256 1.2 : 1 2758
Kilrogg PVE 20 1745 1012 1.7 : 1 2757 very poor
Malygos PVE 21 1950 805 2.4 : 1 2755
Elune PVE 21 1979 771 2.6 : 1 2750
Llane PVE 20 1940 806 2.4 : 1 2746
Cenarius PVE 18 1876 867 2.2 : 1 2743 very poor
Draenor PVE 19 1890 844 2.2 : 1 2734
Aggramar PVE 21 1892 829 2.3 : 1 2721
Uldum PVE 19 1865 853 2.2 : 1 2718
Eldre'Thalas PVE 23 1747 966 1.8 : 1 2713 poor
Moonrunner PVE 19 1752 945 1.9 : 1 2697
Kalecgos PVP 20 1150 1505 1:1.3 2655
Skywall PVE 19 1692 927 1.8 : 1 2619
Thunderlord PVP 21 1562 1028 1.5 : 1 2590
Dragonmaw PVP 19 1491 1093 1.4 : 1 2584
Mal'Ganis PVP 21 1113 1471 1:1.3 2584 poor
Lightning's Blade PVP 21 1513 1068 1.4 : 1 2581
Magtheridon PVP 22 1523 1020 1.5 : 1 2543
Destromath PVP 19 1442 1090 1.3 : 1 2532
Darkspear PVP 19 1405 1109 1.3 : 1 2514
Thunderhorn PVE 21 1804 693 2.6 : 1 2497
Stormscale PVP 20 1400 1092 1.3 : 1 2492
Daggerspine PVP 19 1227 1255 1:1 2482
Crushridge PVP 20 1447 1026 1.4 : 1 2473
Gorefiend PVP 22 1317 1111 1.2 : 1 2428
Staghelm PVE 20 1549 879 1.8 : 1 2428
Bonechewer PVP 18 1282 1143 1.1 : 1 2425 poor
Eredar PVP 22 1346 1052 1.3 : 1 2398
Boulderfist PVP 19 1364 1006 1.4 : 1 2370
Spinebreaker PVP 19 1161 1207 1:1 2368 poor
Firetree PVP 22 1158 1207 1:1 2365
Nathrezim PVP 19 1287 1076 1.2 : 1 2363
Stonemaul PVP 19 1345 1009 1.3 : 1 2354
Wildhammer PVP 21 1064 1220 1:1.1 2284
Frostwolf PVP 21 1373 875 1.6 : 1 2248
Dunemaul PVP 18 1254 993 1.3 : 1 2247
Maelstrom RP-PVP 22 967 1244 1:1.3 2211
Twisting Nether RP-PVP 22 1030 1166 1:1.1 2196
Gorgonnash PVP 20 1187 984 1.2 : 1 2171
Emerald Dream RP-PVP 22 1142 1017 1.1 : 1 2159
Dethecus PVP 20 1194 900 1.3 : 1 2094
Spirestone PVP 20 1035 1016 1:1 2051
Smolderthorn PVP 22 996 920 1.1 : 1 1916 poor
Gurubashi PVP 21 894 1003 1:1.1 1897
Detheroc PVP 21 801 1015 1:1.3 1816

[Alanthus]

A couple of things I noticed comparing these to the June numbers btw:

Most realms remain fairly stable in population, this surprised me to be honest, I would have expected lower population realms to have dropped even more considering the problems accessing some content. I guess that shows how solid the core PvE 1-60 game is and that no competitors managed to make a dent yet...

Gurubashi and Frostwolf both dropped dramatically, looking at the numbers I'm guessing that numerically unbalanced PvP realms are very frustrating to play on. The underdog realm gets griefed by bored 60's all the time and the dominating realm can't get into BG's for lack of opponents (which they ran off the server).

There are a number of realms that are pretty close to max capacity or at max capacity, any realms showing 3200+ in the list are really pretty much full at prime time. There are also no *really* low level servers when you look at total population, I would have expected some to have dropped to about 1500 or even lower. It's pretty clear why Blizzard is still starting new servers.

The RP-PvP servers haven't really been a success as of yet, I guess the jury is still out but other newly started servers have had considerably higher population numbers after a few weeks. There is no indication that existing RP servers lost a lot of players and the unofficial RP-PvP server designated by players (Bleeding Hollow) appears to have lost very few players as well.

I noticed several very high population servers lack prime time data, this is of course due to the fact that they are queued and take a lot of time to get into and run a census at that time. This doesn't appear to stop players from creating new characters and moving to these servers though.

[Rollie]

I do still want to present this kind of data as a report on the site, just gotta get it done =)

Good work gathering it up yourself. I have noticed also that things seem pretty stable for the most part. You can also get a general feeling of this from the weekly faction activity charts.


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[Alanthus]

Well, having done it manually twice I see the problem with getting it done, even right now with all the contest data in there are realms where the numbers aren't very substantial at all and that would have to be indicated somehow as well as taken into account generating the resulting data display.

And yes, I actually would like to see easy links to specific weekly faction activity for each server from any listing such as the one above as the next step in delving data of course is checking specific servers to see what's behind the total numbers. Different ways of looking at the same data sometimes helps a lot depending on what you're looking for though, there are a lot of ways at looking at the data that would be very interesting if we had more complete data like trends in population for different type servers or servers started at different dates etc. but it's fun to try and find valid views of the data that *is* available

Hmmm, and if I get the urge to do something like this I'll certainly remember the

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