Game Stats
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Platform
Firan runs on stock TinyMUX 2.6 with the "firan" option enabled. TinyMUX's author Stephen Dennis has lovingly hand-tooled MUX2 to make Firan run like something out of NASCAR. The game runs on saga.legendary.org, a leased 2.4 GHz Celeron with 1.5 GB RAM (and it consumes 15% of the CPU and 40% of the RAM on average). Saga is hosted in a secure, environmentally-controlled data center by ServerMatrix.com, a subsidiary of The Planet. The ISP provides a Tier 4 SLA (100% uptime via uninterrupted network, power, and redundant connectivity).
Activity
Firan is a busy game, with many players and staff. The following sections explain some of the ways we measure Firan's activity. We've included a number of charts from the game, where we collect data for analysis.
In general, we maintain a tight community of about 170 unique players (verified by email address and IP address), a number in accordance with Dunbar's Number of a mean community size of around 150 people. About a third of our playerbase attends FiranCon every year.
Player Activity
Here's Firan's entry from Brent's MUstats Login Tracker[1]. Take a look at how many players we usually have connected to the game. (Brent's page has been down as of late. We're hoping he'll bring it back up!)
We track the number of logins we get, and since we have alts, we keep track of both the number of characters and players that connect. This is the output of the "@active" command:
@active as of Mon Jan 15 01:33:17 2007 The last 1 days: 322 characters, 164 players, 186 players and staff The last 2 days: 374 characters, 184 players, 207 players and staff The last 3 days: 411 characters, 199 players, 223 players and staff The last 4 days: 429 characters, 205 players, 229 players and staff The last 5 days: 443 characters, 209 players, 234 players and staff The last 6 days: 461 characters, 216 players, 243 players and staff The last 7 days: 480 characters, 224 players, 251 players and staff The last 8 days: 482 characters, 226 players, 253 players and staff The last 9 days: 497 characters, 232 players, 259 players and staff The last 10 days: 503 characters, 234 players, 261 players and staff The last 11 days: 508 characters, 235 players, 263 players and staff The last 12 days: 519 characters, 240 players, 268 players and staff The last 13 days: 522 characters, 240 players, 268 players and staff The last 14 days: 526 characters, 242 players, 270 players and staff The last 15 days: 529 characters, 243 players, 272 players and staff The last 16 days: 530 characters, 243 players, 273 players and staff The last 17 days: 532 characters, 243 players, 273 players and staff The last 18 days: 538 characters, 244 players, 274 players and staff The last 19 days: 543 characters, 244 players, 274 players and staff The last 20 days: 549 characters, 246 players, 276 players and staff The last 21 days: 553 characters, 247 players, 277 players and staff The last 22 days: 556 characters, 249 players, 280 players and staff The last 23 days: 563 characters, 250 players, 281 players and staff The last 24 days: 564 characters, 251 players, 282 players and staff The last 25 days: 566 characters, 251 players, 283 players and staff The last 26 days: 568 characters, 252 players, 284 players and staff The last 27 days: 570 characters, 253 players, 285 players and staff The last 28 days: 572 characters, 253 players, 285 players and staff The last 29 days: 574 characters, 254 players, 286 players and staff The last 30 days: 577 characters, 255 players, 287 players and staff
Firan has a 10-day inactivity "reap" or "idle-out". That means that we re-roster any character who has not connected in 10 days. This makes the 10-day mark a reasonably close measure of our player base.
As of August 22, 2002, our record number of characters on the game at any time was 212.
We also measure our activity by how many players earn peer votes for good role-playing. Around 270 characters earn player votes for good role-playing in a given week. That's around 170 different players. Here's an example of the bulletin board post that goes up every week (from January 12, 2007).
============================== General Updates =============================== Message: 10/185 Posted Author Congratulations Mahir! Fri Jan 12 Voting Command Object ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Congratulations to Mahir who is RPer of the week! Top ten XP earners this week! 1. Mahir This Week: 18 Total: 263 2. Petula This Week: 15 Total: 240 3. Riven This Week: 14 Total: 137 4. Marsalos This Week: 14 Total: 160 5. Torianos This Week: 13 Total: 129 6. Savanna This Week: 13 Total: 41 7. Serina This Week: 12 Total: 26 8. Prima This Week: 12 Total: 979 9. Kelarik This Week: 12 Total: 251 10. Delicia This Week: 12 Total: 7 11. Balinda This Week: 12 Total: 2566 12. Anzo This Week: 12 Total: 23 Top ten XP earners (of those who earned XP this week)! 1. Alastor This Week: 9 Total: 3137 2. Alexa This Week: 10 Total: 3099 3. Balinda This Week: 12 Total: 2566 4. Sarina This Week: 9 Total: 2539 5. Inaya This Week: 5 Total: 2476 6. Nakia This Week: 1 Total: 2133 7. Taria This Week: 5 Total: 2129 8. Laurelia This Week: 5 Total: 2118 9. Primo This Week: 7 Total: 2114 10. Judanus This Week: 1 Total: 2106 274 characters earned XP this week! 171 players earned XP this week! ==============================================================================
Wizard Staff Activity
Our player helper staff and wizard staff completes an enormous number of player requests every month. We keep statistics and can report that our annual throughput has increased without exception for the last ten years and we've tried to keep our service level (average hours to complete a request) reasonable. This is in addition to the normal work they do writing and debugging code, enhancing the thematic material, writing new help and news files, running plots, giving players personal attention, and so on.
Here are some figures from our statistics for 2006:
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Request Statistics for FiranMUX in 2006
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Requests closed per month:
JAN: 1041 FEB: 994 MAR: 1042 APR: 975 MAY: 835 JUN: 1116
JUL: 886 AUG: 968 SEP: 908 OCT: 1348 NOV: 956 DEC: 844
Average time to close:
JAN: 2d6h FEB: 1d10h MAR: 15d23h APR: 2d10h MAY: 2d22h JUN: 5d14h
JUL: 2d1h AUG: 2d6h SEP: 2d11h OCT: 3d9h NOV: 2d4h DEC: 2d22h
Total for 2006: 11913 completed requests.
1d16h average to close.
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March's time-to-close figures may have felt the impact of us pushing to complete some long-open requests. June's service level is surely impacted by staff being occupied with preparation for FiranCon (Memorial Day Weekend).
Here's a summary of past years:
Total for 2006: 11913 completed requests. 1d16h average to close. Total for 2005: 10882 completed requests. 19h29m average to close. Total for 2004: 10357 completed requests. 13h36m average to close. Total for 2003: 9794 completed requests. 8h48m average to close. Total for 2002: 9016 completed requests. 7h36m average to close. Total for 2001: 4990 completed requests. 20h58m average to close. Total for 2000: 2363 completed requests. 2d17h average to close.
(We started tracking requests in August 1999 so we do not have complete annual data for 1997-1999.)
Player Helper Staff Activity
We keep similar statistics for our player helpers. Here's the statistics for 2006.
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Request Statistics for FiranMUX in 2006
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Requests closed per month:
JAN: 433 FEB: 344 MAR: 407 APR: 469 MAY: 422 JUN: 463
JUL: 519 AUG: 640 SEP: 521 OCT: 642 NOV: 491 DEC: 581
Average time to close:
JAN: 6d10h FEB: 6d16h MAR: 5d2h APR: 4d23h MAY: 4d8h JUN: 3d5h
JUL: 4d11h AUG: 3d0h SEP: 1d14h OCT: 21h9m NOV: 2d10h DEC: 3d23h
Total for 2006: 5932 completed requests.
2d10h average to close.
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Many of the easier and shorter tasks that wizards used to do have been handed to player helpers. Here's a summary over the years:
Total for 2006: 5932 completed requests. 2d10h average to close. Total for 2005: 4607 completed requests. 3d14h average to close. Total for 2004: 4445 completed requests. 2d1h average to close. Total for 2003: 4162 completed requests. 1d16h average to close. Total for 2002: 2875 completed requests. 1d21h average to close.
The @helpreq system for Player Helpers was instituted in June 2001, so we don't have annual summaries before 2002.
In summary, FiranMUX's staff works hard to take care of its playerbase!
Requests and Jobs
Firan's staff does a great deal of work. If you're interested in finding out more about how much we do, take a look at the Requests and Jobs Stats page.
