8 888 888 and other "funny" numbers thread :D

1974ER · Post by **1974ER** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:01 pm

Well, it was still a bit early to post the 9M updates thread, so I ended up with something else.

Friday morning I noticed that I might be hitting 8 888 888 updates. Well, I didn't quite. It is now Saturday morning for me, I "overshot" a little bit and now have 8 889 060 updates.

However, I had quite a bit of fun trying to guess how much I should census to hit that figure.

During the time I have run censuses, I have seen 111, 222, 333, 555 and 666 people online or as "new" ones. 1337 has also come up at least once. I can't recall, if I ever got 1974 exactly, but I know I have been close a lot of times.

Anyone else have any "funny" number stories for us, while I continue heading for 9M?

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:51 am

Lol nice one

Can't think of any funny number I've had but I liked the possibility of 8 888 888! Amazed you're so far on, I'm still well off even 6 666 666

1974ER · Post by **1974ER** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:19 pm

:D:D Hehe, you will get there eventually...

:D:D After all, in theory, it is doable in less than a month as you are less than 500k away.

For me, I guess I will be posting the 9M thread in the near future as I am less than 43k off of that.

Wolfnettle · Post by **Wolfnettle** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:51 am

I am right behind you guys at a massive 6k

So watch out!

No number stories, although I will now keep a beady eye on the patterns

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:45 am

Lol in theory, but in practice I'm so busy in RL these days that I'm only censusing the two servers I actually play on, which makes for low numbers

Amazed how fast you're going, I had to put a really concentrated effort to ever get the numbers you do, and just can't sustain it more than a few weeks, while you've been going for ages now!

1974ER · Post by **1974ER** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:07 pm

Hehe Wolfnettle. It's not about the big numbers, everyone's efforts are important. My numbers may be high... but the anonymous submission makers throw in huge numbers... If I recall correctly, more than 1,6 million updates in this month... and over 161 million since the start of the site... compared to that, my almost nine million is a mere drop in the sea...

balgair... almost 18 months, to be exact...

:D:D

And I guess I should post that 9M thread soon, as it is no longer far off...

:D:D

1974ER · Post by **1974ER** » Thu May 27, 2010 7:30 am

Well, here are a couple of more fun numbers... Bringoutyourdead currently has exactly 10 000 new entries for this month.

Also, some days ago, I found 1234 people, while censusing a zeroed out realm.

gmmmpresser · Post by **gmmmpresser** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:51 pm

Just finished a Census on Thunderlord (Horde) and it came back with 666.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:56 pm

Not so much a "funny" number as an "ouch!" one... censused Al'Akir Alliance at peak time, 7.30pm, got only 152, yet had noticed the server was listed as High pop on the realmlist. Just ran one on Horde side and... 2187. That is a serious imbalance there :O Ran ally side again right after the horde one, 128, 69 lvl 80s. Oh dear

1974ER · Post by **1974ER** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:36 am

Well, another fun coincidence.... right now... I have 22 222 new ones for this month.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:37 am

Not a special number as such but an amazing one nonetheless - http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php?serverid=604 - how on earth did it get over 10k updates?! Must be like a whole guild or something running the mod

1974ER · Post by **1974ER** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:04 am

Well, apparently the population is really low even at peak times, which means it's easy to submit multiple times in an hour if one chooses to. Let's say 8 hours of game time per day, 3 submissions every hour times 30 days... one person COULD easily be responsible for 720 submissions in a month. If someone was multi-boxing, (s)he might hit 3600 submissions (using 5 accounts) in a month. Very theoretically... 3 people could manage over 10k a month, for about 15 it would be doable without multiboxing and an active guild with 30+ active censusplus user members? Easy.

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:14 am

True, just surprised to see so many, don't think I've ever seen a server over 2k in a month

If it's a pretty fast census to run that'd help, since some people could well have it set at a short census timer (mine's 10 mins for example) so that'd be like 4-5 an hour easy if it doesn't take ages to run. Would still take a fair number of people to get that many though, I'm impressed!

Hybuir · Post by **Hybuir** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:03 pm

my timer's set to .01, that's how boulderfist and killrogg horde got up

1974ER · Post by **1974ER** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:19 am

Another funny one... As of right now... for this month, I have seen 55 555 new characters.

FuxieDK · Post by **FuxieDK** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:36 pm

Balgair wrote:Not a special number as such but an amazing one nonetheless - http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php?serverid=604 - how on earth did it get over 10k updates?! Must be like a whole guild or something running the mod

20k on my server --> http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.ph ... ertypeid=2

I'm the only person doing census...

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:38 pm

FuxieDK wrote:
Balgair wrote:Not a special number as such but an amazing one nonetheless - http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php?serverid=604 - how on earth did it get over 10k updates?! Must be like a whole guild or something running the mod
20k on my server --> http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.ph ... ertypeid=2

I'm the only person doing census...

Yeah but I was saying updates, as in, censuses run, not characters seen

FuxieDK · Post by **FuxieDK** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:41 pm

Ahhh.. DOH!

Balgair · Post by **Balgair** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:43 pm

Hehe, I didn't make it that clear, it's less obvious now since that server's down to "only" 5k censuses run, it stood out a mile when it was in 5 figures and most others only in 2

1974ER · Post by **1974ER** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:59 am

Another funny one just appeared... as of right now, I have found 44 444 new characters this month. What's even funnier is that it almost didn't happen, because I was thinking of running a couple of more censuses, but in the end decided to get some sleep instead.

:D:D