's holiday prof hunt gave me the idea to track some of the top players over the course of a week, and see how and when they're playing.

So, I got a list of several of the top players, and set up my server to grab their character's XML page every 30 minutes for a week. These pages update every 10-15 minutes, and have pretty much every character stat. The ones I focused on were Kills, Skills (fishing + cooking + glyphing + muting + suff), and the "Last Action", which is just the timestamp for the last time the game recorded an action for that character. Once I had a week's worth of activity, I compared each 30 minute interval to the one prior, and classified it as one of the following:

Killing - If the character had more kills than the previous interval, they were killing
Skilling - If the character had more combined skill proficiency points than the previous interval, they were skilling
Both - If the character had more kills and more proficiency points than the previous interval, they were doing both
Chilling - If the character did not increase their kills or skills, but their "Last Action" timestamp changed from the previous interval, then they were chilling. It's worth mentioning that I don't know for certain what action(s) do or do not change this stat on the XML pages, but I imagine in most cases it would be buying/selling an item, skilling at a low enough level so as to not gain proficiency, or perhaps just chatting.

If all stats are the same, then I consider them inactive. However, just because someone was active during an interval, does not mean they were active for the entire 30 minutes. (In theory it would be possible to play for 1 minute, stop for 58, then play for another minute, and show up here as playing for 1 hour).

Stats were tracked roughly starting at Midnight GMT on Dec 20th, and ran for a week. It's still running, so I do have some additional days that aren't included in this. (I'm also happy to share the data if anyone's interested, just lmk)

Anyway, without further ado, here is How & When the Top Slashers Play (apologies for the low quality image)

You just click on inanimate objects, my retarded cousin does it pretty well.

neat idea, thanks for compiling and creating this!

more like NeverSleeps gaw DAMN

Im a top slasher

suck it

clearly am bad



This post was edited by bhBc on Dec 27 2021 09:23pm

you barely missed the cut. Here's 21-40:

ah ha!

makes sense though; calculating in skilling / soloing etc

im only a group climber lately

Hahaha damn wish this was done while I was actually playing. Would have been interesting to see he distribution. I’m fairly certain 75% of the entire bar would just be killing.

nice, this is really fkn cool, love stuff like this

thanks

Wow thanks for exposing me for the fucking degenerate I am.

This is awesome though! Thanks for this!

This post was edited by tealeaves on Dec 27 2021 11:19pm