The Oracle brings you something Zen - Hawt newness and DOOOOOOM at the same time!   It's like "you got valium in my peanut butter!"  "No, you got peanut butter on my colonoscopy slide!"

The Oracle has add the server load ticker for <gasp> other DDO sites.  Updated hourly, consider it sort of like a server up display, except instead of a green "yeah" light it shows the load for the last 4 hours.   If the load average flatlines to zero, take the hint - that's red.

It's in 240x400 web std format.  There's a high res version too if you're really motivated.  Just embed the image link here:
http://ddoracle.com/serverLoadTicker.png
Would be nice if the graphic was a link back to the Oracle's Traffic Report.

So your Oracle figures this will be pretty cool for all 5 fansites.  Technically it's a continuously updated PNG so you could use it for your desktop or phone background too, but if you do, you have issues.

The only thing that's not cool is the name.  Oracle Trax is meh, but there's not a lot that would fit in the format well and fit all the criteria.  So this was a discussion with the Thelanis misfit society last night and the suggestion was to throw it up on the Vault and let you guys run with it.

Zerg!

Neat, and the PNG auto updates every hour? thats.. kinda awesome... xD ~bookmarks it~

rest wrote on Feb 24^th, 2014 at 11:52pm:


No, it looks legit based on a quick count in the Who list.  Yet LFMs and end-game is still dead 

Actually the Oracle suspects that Turbine deliberately rotates the default login server, which is very evident on the Oracle's LotRO Annual report.

That graph plainly shows that different slower servers got promoted, getting a huge boost in traffic, and that when one server got promoted the previous preferred server tanked.   So far, it appears that they change that every 4 months or so, and I suspect LotRO will change servers again shortly.

From the DDO side, the busy servers are and have been Thelanis and Khyber.  Possibly they took a hint from their LotRO team members and decided to feature slower servers.  In DDO's case, one might think Wayfinder should have been picked, but hang out in Wayfinder for a while and you'll find it's an English-speaking server already, and more English speakers certainly isn't going to help it develop the German language community for which it was intended.

Oh nice. Added to my blog site 

That is crazy how g land got that big of a spike while others tanked at the same time...

The players of Wayfinder do nothing to encourage new players whatsoever.

The players of Wayfinder complained about how dead it was and in the summer, Cordovan did some talking behind the scenes and had the login server defaulted to Wayfinder just as Cdr says.

The player retention was abysmal as new players quickly left because no one was on Wayfinder or they could not afford the gear on Wayfinder.

Bigjunk wrote on Feb 25^th, 2014 at 12:02am:

So we're actually getting some new players? That's pretty cool.

Any sense as to how the level distribution of characters online (as opposed to all characters on the server) compares to other servers?

If the gap between other servers and GLand is new players, that sharp dropoff at at Shadowfail is pretty telling. New player friendly was supposed to be a selling point, and instead there was a sharp drop that took weeks to recover.

What's the Oracle?

The Oracle wrote on Mar 4^th, 2014 at 11:51pm:


Any chance of getting one to span days/weeks (trying to pinpoint days/times when it would be best to do Events on each server) Would be much obliged.

Rasczak wrote on Mar 5^th, 2014 at 1:33am:

I wish.

Or maybe my time one just sucks. And the levels are more and more spread out.

G-Land too full now? whats happening?

https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/437471-Unable-to-Log-in-server-Full!!!

The Oracle wrote on Mar 7^th, 2014 at 8:23pm:


Oh, i was referring to this one ~http://ddoracle.com/images/serverLoadHourly.big.png

It was too big for my frame, and was cutting off the right side, but i was able to shrink it

I dont think its updating at all though.. cuz.. its looked identical for the past few days.. could just be that logins / day are identical.. but that's too coincidental.. xD