Since this forum's description says "Ingame observations that affect SRL", I thought this would be the place to post this.
I have been gathering the amount of players online from the RS page for a week, and I was very happy to see that they have some use now, because checking out today, I see that about 20-30k people have vanished from the count. I could possibly track the affects of the anti-botting updates on RS this way.
I will be posting any interesting observations I have here, but I won't post the full logs because they are boring and I have discovered some strategic stuff while analyzing long ones(:P).
All times in GMT+2
I collect data every 5 minutes, I just post parts of it to represent the general dat here.
Sample from 11 Sept:
You can see it's around 120k in a workday in the evening for me(GMT+2).Code:07:49:32 PM 122080
08:19:40 PM 120122
09:17:07 PM 122229
10:12:18 PM 124133
10:17:19 PM 124602
It's almost constant from 5 PM to 7 PM, then starts increasing, I assume that's until 6-7 AM.
It is slightly higher in the weekends:
Sample from 15 Sept:
It was falling until like 10.30 AM, then it started to rise. The rise doesn't stop until around the same time next day, interestingly.Code:07:21:21 AM 112343
07:36:23 AM 110801
08:46:52 AM 104204
09:41:58 AM 100496
10:27:02 AM 100246
11:47:32 AM 102486
12:37:37 PM 102674
01:12:39 PM 102671
02:27:45 PM 106061
03:32:55 PM 111842
04:12:58 PM 116311
05:48:07 PM 127465
06:53:13 PM 134796
07:33:16 PM 139115
09:03:25 PM 143428
10:28:46 PM 142853
11:34:01 PM 141451
As you can see, this is about 20k higher than a workday.
Ad now, data from today:
Boom, at least a 15k drop. Will see how the updates change the data.Code:05:18:03 PM 92286
05:23:04 PM 93310
05:58:07 PM 97491
06:23:09 PM 101322
08:23:22 PM 108820
Once I have enough data I could post graphs and such but my research is just in its preliminary stages right now.

