The Oracle finally releases the ultimate truth, and you guys don't even say a word? Seriously?
http://www.ddoracle.com/Traffic.html

Bottom of the page, now a regular feature.  And you guys clearly are not following the Oracle's twitter feed.   

For the math or resolution challenged, A) click on the bottom graph for the large view, and B) That's 3 years of data, for the 3rd anniversary of the Traffic Report.

To think the Oracle used to do all this cool player/guild stuff instead.  ;-/

I'm wondering if I want to get on my soapbox and say this is all impossible. After all, renown decay was for all intents and purposes removed (or at least, severely nerfed) and all those people from big guilds were saying that it's what was holding back the game. So DDO should be brimming with players now right?

That is a rather funny looking spike I might have created some 80 odd accounts, robbed them of cards and them loaded them down with ill-gotten gains...

Oracle, that is awesome, thank you very much!

If I ever get a twitter account, you will be the second one I follow. I'll have to follow my wife's twitter account first, of course, so I'll probably never get one, but if I do you'll be second.

Is there any chance you could replace the "today" with an actual date in the "<units> back from today" axis label? When the graphs don't refresh it takes a bit of work to figure out just where the graph fits in, and having that in the label would help.

Also, if you add a "Server total" line, which would be very cool, maybe make it a "server average" instead so it plots on the same scale? We could always multiply it out to get the total if we wanted.

Again, thank you so much, these graphs are great and the new one is fascinating.

This is a cool statisical representation (fuck you Shade, math is the answer) of what we have been seeing in game.  Ghost towns.

Something is off with your wayfinder curve in the last plot.  It extends past zero weeks and into the future a bit.

I read all of this and look at the charts and just think: "fuck pirates, I hate that theme, and apparently no one else gives a shit about them either"!

H8Tank wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2014 at 5:13pm:


The two spikes are MOTU and cards with about 6 months of stablity pre-MOTU. It's not just fuck pirates, its fuck epic rats and fuck Forgotten Realms.

So Ghallanda benefited from self-fulfilling prophecy, but now Cannith is the bugged server that is over-reporting.

Also, epic rats have been a thing since house P went epic.

Revaulting wrote on Jun 24^th, 2014 at 1:16am:


What did you expect? Dragons and Demi Liches for every trash mob?

5 Foot Step wrote on Jun 24^th, 2014 at 1:44am:

Dunno, maybe some creativity, or failing that, flick through the 10,000 DnD monsters published over the last 20 years or so?

Epic wolves/rats/spiders etc are just lame.
The dire bears I didn't mind - I can imagine really tough bears.  More werecreatures - they can plausibly be any level.
I would have preferred vorpal rabbits to rats, if only for the laugh factor and the nod to Monty Python.

Looking for high level challenges, what about Githyanki, an Aboleth hive, Chimera, Hydras or humanoid spell casters (but make them more challenging than the current 2 spells and unlimited SP)?
Liches and Death Knights are always great at evoking an "oh shit" response from players.
Various automatons like golems could be made more powerful and be plausible.
You could spend an hour in the old monster manuals and easily have a 5 page list that you could start culling down.
Instead we get epic animals, kobolds everywhere and harpies re-used in E3BC - because when I saw that it fit right in the genre.  I get there are budget constraints, but they have to inject something new?

Epic skeletons and zombies make even less sense than epic rats. They are mindless. If a player can go from 1 to 20 by killing rats, why can't a rat go from 1 to 20 by killing players.

I guess they could at least call them extreme dire wererats of moar epic doomz or somesuch nonsense.

grimorde wrote on Jun 24^th, 2014 at 6:29am:


^This.