12000!

[ducktape]

w00t! we now have 12000 registered players!

[Peter]

WOW , quite the bench mark for BZFlag , I bet only 400 of those are even slightly active

[Grace F]

Hmm 12000 registered users. More than half of them could've quit playing a long time ago

Imagine 12k people playing all at the same time. Amazing!

[CoL CLiNKeR]

wow we need to make a commercial about BZ to make more ppl play it

[CannonBallGuy]

You're talking of registered forum-members, not players. There will be a difference as many people have quit playing since joining the forums. On the other hand, many play un-registered. How it balances out is beyond me, but we have less than 12000 active players.

[Grace F]

We have alot less than 12k active players

If I were to estimate, I'd say I see about 100-200 different registered users in 1 week. Non-registered players is a little over that.

[Peter]

While just flicking through the player list on got stats , I found someone had registerd 60 times , like this <name>_01 , <name_02> ect ect , why would anyone want to do that?

[plokijuy]

Hmm 12000 registered users. More than half of them could've quit playing a long time ago

Imagine 12k people playing all at the same time. Amazing!

All on one server lol

[halo3]

While just flicking through the player list on got stats , I found someone had registerd 60 times , like this <name>_01 , <name_02> ect ect , why would anyone want to do that?

well some ppl dont like their names and just keep re rejistering instead of changeing their names in their profiles

[Grace F]

While just flicking through the player list on got stats , I found someone had registerd 60 times , like this <name>_01 , <name_02> ect ect

well some ppl dont like their names and just keep re rejistering instead of changeing their names in their profiles

I don't think it's that. If the person didn't like their name, they most probably would've changed the whole callsign rather than just the 2 numbers at the end.

why would anyone want to do that?

It could be anything, with numerous reasons.

[biggeruniverse]

Like... a bot server!

[sniper1234]

Or some people might get banned and try to make a new callsign. But then they find out they are still banned. They try another few times until they give up and ask some1. Then they realize there computer is banned! That would be awesome 1200 ppl at once. (all the 200 servers will be filled with at least 20 poeple each, with some up to 40 players)

[blast]

While just flicking through the player list on got stats , I found someone had registerd 60 times , like this <name>_01 , <name_02> ect ect , why would anyone want to do that?

Names on the stats site does not indicated any form of registration here. It only means that someone was using those names on a game server.

[CannonBallGuy]

Or some people might get banned and try to make a new callsign. But then they find out they are still banned. They try another few times until they give up and ask some1. Then they realize there computer is banned! That would be awesome 1200 ppl at once. (all the 200 servers will be filled with at least 20 poeple each, with some up to 40 players)

200 servers, 20 players each -> 200*20 = 4000 players - not 1200.

The topic is titled 12000. 12000/200 = 60 players per server on average.

[T3hCrookedElf]

w00t! we now have 12000 registered players!

Sorry. I had a really hard time deciding on a callsign.

If I were to estimate, I'd say I see about 100-200 different registered users in 1 week. Non-registered players is a little over that.

I think that's extremely conservative. Just take a look at stats.bzflag.org. Now, granted, there are tons of duplicates, bots, and bzadmin accounts, etc., but that's a really bloody big list.

I think that, the number of players may be closer to 500 or 600 including registered/non-registered per week. But I would be interested in seeing somebody who actually had player history (like the stats.bzflag.org) figuring it out.

elf

[Grace F]

w00t! we now have 12000 registered players!

Sorry. I had a really hard time deciding on a callsign.

If I were to estimate, I'd say I see about 100-200 different registered users in 1 week. Non-registered players is a little over that.

I think that's extremely conservative. Just take a look at stats.bzflag.org. Now, granted, there are tons of duplicates, bots, and bzadmin accounts, etc., but that's a really bloody big list.

I counted 71 - inc 1 of every bot. Like for instance, there are like 5 bots under the name 'view', I counted all of them as 1. Also, Cosmo that legendary player, is from what I can tell, almost always Observer and AFK. Or just Observing and doing something else.

So In about 1 week (changing my previous estimate), I see about 150 different registered players. I don't think im too far off, I don't think I am anyways

[ludachris]

While just flicking through the player list on got stats , I found someone had registerd 60 times , like this <name>_01 , <name_02> ect ect , why would anyone want to do that?

well some ppl dont like their names and just keep re rejistering instead of changeing their names in their profiles

I can think of someone who changes his name too much.
Me...

~quailmuffin

[Teppic]

I have 8 registered bots, so that's only 11992...

[Grace F]

Why would you register a bot?

Does it need to be registered in order for it to do whatever it is that it is needed to do?

[CannonBallGuy]

If a server is using global groups, it's easier to register a bot here and add it to the global group, imho.

[Teppic]

It's because my server was running registered only for a while.