The Energon Pub

Two months on, let's do an update of the By The Numbers thread, shall we?

To start with, looking at the total mission count and win/loss rates - I cut it down to only the last 12 months rather than the full log range, since most of it is obviously unchanged from last time:


Noticeably, there's a been a distinct dropoff in activity in the last few months, starting from around mid-May. I'm hoping that we can reverse that trend and get people interested and playing again, now that we have some staff and development effort starting up!

Digging into those figures a little, I tried plotting out daily active users (players who entered a mission), along with the total missions played and average missions per user (which seems like a reasonable proxy for enthusiasm - if people keep playing but don't do as many missions as they used to, it'll show up here).


And while I'm here, let's update the listing of who those players actually are - showing here the players active (joined a mission) over the last 3 months:


Unsurprisingly, Bumblevivisector continues to be the most addicted player on the site by a country mile but a 'notable mention' goes out to Ziusundra on the Autobot side... more on them in a moment.

Looking at the top mission players again, here's the charts for total mission participation by faction:




As before, the Autobot data continues to be a lot 'spikier' than the Decepticons - more players overall, and with the top players contributing a smaller share of the total.

This time around, I highlighted the top 10 players (by mission count) over the last three months rather than the full 3+ years of the logs. One thing this can pick out is the arrival/return of a new prolific player - note Ziusundra coming out of nowhere in March to take the Autobots' #1 spot, while they hadn't even been in the top 10 overall last time.

One more thing I tried with the latest data: since I practically seem to have the site to myself in the morning (UK time), I tried to do a pseudo-heatmap of the times of day bots of different levels are active - that is, bucketing the missions by hour throughout the day and plotting an average. It's not all that reliable, but does make clear the dominance of maxed-out bots during the US daytime (all times given here are server time, i.e. CDT or GMT-5).

Seeing charts makes me wanna play more. I love seeing stats

OK, let's move on from overall numbers to achievements... First up, I can welcome seven new bots to Millionaires' Club!


As before, the full millionaires dataset is too big to post here, but I've made it available on my GDrive if anyone wants to have a poke around the data.

Leaderboards are fun, let's do some leaderboards!



(I've just done the most obvious numbers here, but I enjoy doing these and can track a surprising number of stats. Anyone have a suggestion for other fun things to do a leaderboard for?)

And because I know someone's going to ask, here's the all-time (well, since the last mission purge in 2022) Top 20 high score list:



And finally (for the moment), let's update the tally of useless armour gathering dust in the faction warehouses since last October



Ok, I think that's all I had lined up. Anything else you'd like to know?

Looks like I'm missed by 1 spot.

Do you have mission win %, or K/D ratio?
Those could be fun stats.

Also, congrats to Bumbles for still smashing it. Keep up the good work dude!

Mission win% is in the first image - table and chart. Or do you mean at a per-character level?
(Edit: Oh, or was that a leaderboard suggestion?)

K/D... I can probably do something with that, though my early data needs some cleanup and the recent issues with zombie bots will confuse things a little. Lemme have a look...

Psychout wrote:Also, congrats to Bumbles for still smashing it. Keep up the good work dude!

"Average player does 25 missions per day" factoid actualy just statistical error. average player does 0 missions per day. Missions Bumble, who lives on server & does over 1,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Bouncing off Psychout's comment...

Win% sounds straightforward - had to exclude bots with very low mission counts (<5) so they didn't skew the figures, and also included total mission count as a tiebreaker on the basis that 100% of 30 missions is more impressive than 100% of 5 missions. Also, only counting missions with opposition, not including default wins, as those feel wrong to count.


Still seems a little swingy though, so wondered if net wins (wins - losses) would be more representative:


Probably, though now it advantages the same prolific players who occupy the other leaderboards.

Took the same approach to K/D by presenting it as net kills - main problem with ratios / percentages is that there's a lot of zeroes involved, and most players would have very low numbers.


(I really hope I get to build these in with live data at some point)

Thanks again glyph! Great insights.

For some of the low data issues maybe going to a monthly leaderboard would make more sense. Allows you to raise minimum mission count to a reasonable number for meaningful stats so you don’t have to do just do a net (+/-)…though i like that stat as well…very similar to the hockey stat.

As for decrease hopefully just a summer thing as it seems most people have played less overall…though the server issues in late May contributed some too I am sure. In long run a reset is probably in order to make stats and builds meaningful again…and that may help get new players involved.