Who panel checks. Gads.
Meat-Head wrote on May 4
th, 2015 at 6:25pm:
Weaknesses:
-Not a peak time
-Doesn't answer very well how many play overall
Strengths:
-Gives a good idea of RELATIVE populations of servers
-Does give us SOME idea of how many people play overall (basis for ballparking)
Seekers of Truth!The Oracle comes to visit from his long quest in search of the mythical
lucre to once again, bring you the Truth of all things.
Did you think his All Scrying Eye was not watching? You are mistaken! The Oracle maintains a watch on all things, even as he deals with the timber in his eye he got from helping someone with a splinter.
However, the Oracle did manage to to corrupt his data a while back, as mentioned while blending scrying sources. Fortunately, it's a deterministic failure, which means it can be rolled back. Unfortunately, the Oracle could teach a graduate class on how it's done and hasn't had that much time to roll it out. And as the Oracle is already on the quest for the mystical
lucre and to slay Mammon and take his place, well, not happening.
And yet here, when the Oracle checks in, he finds his people again crying for the Truth. The Truth that is there (the truth is in there) but not currently available, and so like those wandering the desert, you have resorted to bad data and false gods.
Unlike the god of Israel, though, the Oracle applauds your self sufficiency and general get it done attitude. As such, the Oracle brings you DATA MANA!
While the data up to The Event is mangled and requires repair, the Oracle's All-Scrying eyes have continued all this time, with uncorrupted data. So if the Traffic Report in question (hours/days/weeks/months/quaters/years) is less than the time since The Fail, actually, it's perfectly accurate.
However, normally the All Knowing Oracle cannot publish something that's less than perfectly accurate, right?
So .. hearing your pleas, the Oracle brings you .. the Oracle VAULT VERSION! It's a combination of perfectly accurate, half-assed and incomplete. Technically it should have soft-porn, bad language and violently opinionated content, but 3 out of 6 ain't bad.
You can access the Vault Special Report at:
http://www.ddoracle.com/vault/Traffic.htmlThis is a total, awful hack, but .. Vault.
Your Oracle will add a couple things worth mentioning:
1) One day the Oracle went to check that traffic was all recording right and the traffic levels of ALL the servers were at Wayfinder's level. Panic set in! A bug! The scrying eyes have a bug!
… it wasn't a bug.
2) If you go to the main not-updated DDOracle.com, that data is a snapshot in time. Comparing then and now is amusing.
3) Tomb of Horrors. Remember to pick Tomb of Horrors! It's a a D&D module about software development.