How about a graph of actual S2 licensed racers? A graph with mostly inactive demo racers doesn't really make much sense to me.

Quote from Bob Smith :

Hosted? They're attached to my post in this forum?

If you mean where they come from, I make them myself by polling forum user IDs and noting down join dates, and plotting it in Excel. The graphs are currently made from 170 points. Unfortunately not every member has registered on these forums, in fact I've discovered only about 10% are, hence I've had to manually type 1,642 member IDs into the address bar to collect this data.

oh right, well, nice work bob!

Quote from shiny_red_cobra :

How about a graph of actual S2 licensed racers? A graph with mostly inactive demo racers doesn't really make much sense to me.

The graphs as they are show the influx of new people into LFS, regardless of how song they stick around. LFS World already shows you the number of currently active racers. Trying to graph the inbetween figure of people who still consider themselves active, is impossible.

I admit it would be nicer to see the number of licenced racers (be it S1 or S2), but that would require collecting much more data to be done with any accuracy (certainly more than can be obtained from the forum, you'd need to make sort of script to loop through users in LFS World, something I'm certainly not encouraging as I can't see the devs approving). For a rough idea, you can just reduce the numbers on the graph to about a quarter (although how accurate that is, especially post patch Z, I have no idea).

Wow, 250,000, but so what

At the time of posting, Online there are 443 Demo and 567 Licensed

Maybe that number shows just how many we have lost.

The highest online in the graph was 1807

Thats 1800 out of 250000 so it shows the problem, if we had more regular content there would be more online for sure

Also just how silly is it when there are 916 servers live at the moment, that just about 1 each

Quote from Bob Smith :

I admit it would be nicer to see the number of licenced racers (be it S1 or S2), but that would require collecting much more data to be done with any accuracy (certainly more than can be obtained from the forum, you'd need to make sort of script to loop through users in LFS World, something I'm certainly not encouraging as I can't see the devs approving). For a rough idea, you can just reduce the numbers on the graph to about a quarter (although how accurate that is, especially post patch Z, I have no idea).

First graph is based on the cumulative numbers and there is no chance to analyze correctly. Instead of linear trend on cumulative basis, logarithmic base is more helpful.

The second graph (additional license daily growth rate) has over volatility. Thus, the idea you stated is a proper beginning. Via my experience I suggest weekly periodicity by summing of the numbers for both growth rate and licence numbers level. Additionally, this feature can be implement for monthly period.

Regards..

PS: Excel is not sufficient program for trend analysis. Metastock is the solution and gives very helpful information about the future.

Quote from birder :

Wow, 250,000, but so what


if we had more regular content there would be more online for sure

Not necessarily true... seems like alot of people just want to drive the same cars on the same tracks all the time (Conedodgers AS NAT server for example).