From: "James Cameron" <quozl at us.netrek.org> > I've a goal of growing the Netrek community. > But I've no measurement system in place and I want one. > Has anyone already got something? > > Would a peak number of players as shown by the metaserver be a > reasonable measurement? Or perhaps the number of unique IP addresses > seen by continuum in a week? Number of ships created? If by "growth" you mean increase in number of people playing within a time interval, unique IP addresses is probably the best measure of the above. Refine it further by login and character for further accuracy if you want. I would be also be interested in demographic analysis such as * The number of new players in a week, measured perhaps by new unique login+characters with offense below .5. * #players that make up the top x% of playing time, for x=10, 20, etc. I know that I log in now and then during the day and in the evening almost every day, and I see some of the same people over and over again, like D-Day, Lee, lonedog, WhiteDog (Chad?), motwani, and even Karthik and I seem to play a lot. Do the top 10 players (by hours) make up 20% of the volume in a day? Dan Damouth