Interesting Statistics

Keamos

Just a little math from a PHP script I wrote:

(as of 11pm EST, March 7th)
103 playtesters
1,260 Constellation members (assuming $20 each, that's $25,200!)
11 developers

Note that the same id can be listed for more than one icon, like Flayra's.

For anyone curious how I found this--I created a listenserver with mp_uplink 0. I then loaded Ethereal and sniffed my in/outgoing packets and watched it connect to the NS server when I set mp_uplink to 1. Then I went to the place the server nabbed the list from, logged in, and ran this PHP script on it:

<!--c1--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->function strpos_array($haystack, $needle){
  $kill    = 0;    // Kills while loop when changed
  $offset    = 0;    // Offset for strpos()
  $i        = 0;    // Counter, not iterator

  while ($kill === 0) {
      $i++;
      $result = strpos($haystack, $needle, $offset);

      if ($result === FALSE) {        // If result is false (no more instances found), kill the while loop
          $kill = 1;
      } else {
          $array[$i] = $result;    // Set array
          $offset = $result + 1;    // Offset is set 1 character after previous occurence
      }

  }

  return $array;

}
$pt = sizeof(strpos_array($string, "pt"));
echo "$pt Playtesters
";
$const = sizeof(strpos_array($string, "const"));
echo "$const Constellation members
";
$money = $const * 20;
echo "$".$money." made from the Consties
";
$dev = sizeof(strpos_array($string, "dev"));
echo "$dev developers";<!--c2--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->

What i don't understand is why does the NS server password the icon list? There's no plausible reason why that I can think of.

Grendel

Unless the numbers of constellation members have dropped, there are more of them than that IIRC.