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    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:
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    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
    You can see it's around 120k in a workday in the evening for me(GMT+2).
    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:
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    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
    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.
    As you can see, this is about 20k higher than a workday.
    Ad now, data from today:
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    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
    Boom, at least a 15k drop. Will see how the updates change the data.

    Once I have enough data I could post graphs and such but my research is just in its preliminary stages right now.
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    Wow this is interesting. But this would most probably be those auto talkers which are selling sites for gold. With about 100+ worlds and maybe 80-100 of those auto talkers, that could contribute, what more on world 1 or 2.

    But off topic, how do you grab stats and keep them updated on a 5 minute interval?

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    Nice bit of work, litoris. It's a good idea to monitor things, just like they will be monitoring us. I hope this proves helpful
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    Quote Originally Posted by newb cheater View Post
    But off topic, how do you grab stats and keep them updated on a 5 minute interval?
    I asked around and I think it was Brandon who provided me with the link to the javascript thingy. It's basically a page that shows the number inbetween some seemingly random numbers. I wrote a simple script to grab the data from there every five minutes and write that to a text file with a time stamp.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jakkle View Post
    Nice bit of work, litoris. It's a good idea to monitor things, just like they will be monitoring us. I hope this proves helpful
    Thanks! I'm really wondering how things will turn out once the botany bay hits.
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    It is crazy to think so many spammers have been logged into Runescape. I, for one, am more than happy to see them gone. But I will be most intrested in how much the ammount falls after the Botany Bay update. I look forward to seeing these numbers.

    Maybe once you get a good tally going you can make a simple graph, that would be a cool visual. Keep up the good work.

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    I noticed there had been a significant drop in online players this morning too.
    As of right now there are 73877 players online (10:21 BST).
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    Quote Originally Posted by litoris View Post
    I asked around and I think it was Brandon who provided me with the link to the javascript thingy. It's basically a page that shows the number inbetween some seemingly random numbers. I wrote a simple script to grab the data from there every five minutes and write that to a text file with a time stamp.
    Do you think you can show me how to do that? As currently I am doing an assignment tracking stock prices, and such a tool would really be handy

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    Quote Originally Posted by newb cheater View Post
    Do you think you can show me how to do that? As currently I am doing an assignment tracking stock prices, and such a tool would really be handy
    while true;do wget -q -O - "runescape.com/title.ws"| sed -e '/.*<p class="bottom"><span>\(.*\)<\/span>.*/!d;s//\1/g';sleep 5m;done

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    Quote Originally Posted by newb cheater View Post
    Do you think you can show me how to do that? As currently I am doing an assignment tracking stock prices, and such a tool would really be handy
    Simba would be a pain to do that with because the script would have to run all the time. People have google docs spreadsheets that update themselves, try to learn how they do it.
    Quote Originally Posted by nokkasiili View Post
    while true;do wget -q -O - "runescape.com/title.ws"| sed -e '/.*<p class="bottom"><span>\(.*\)<\/span>.*/!d;s//\1/g';sleep 5m;done

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    Yeah, only if it was that simple :P Javascript screws you up.
    E': pwned
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    Quote Originally Posted by litoris View Post
    Simba would be a pain to do that with because the script would have to run all the time. People have google docs spreadsheets that update themselves, try to learn how they do it.


    Yeah, only if it was that simple :P Javscript screws you up.
    nokkasiili@archlinux: ~ % while true;do wget -q -O - "runescape.com/title.ws"| sed -e '/.*<p class="bottom"><span>\(.*\)<\/span>.*/!d;s//\1/g';sleep 5m;done

    88,642
    89,205

    works for me

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    Quote Originally Posted by litoris View Post
    Simba would be a pain to do that with because the script would have to run all the time. People have google docs spreadsheets that update themselves, try to learn how they do it.


    Yeah, only if it was that simple :P Javscript screws you up.
    Yeah, trying to see how that goes and looking around, also posted a thread, hope someone will be able to help. Also googling, but not much results

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    Quote Originally Posted by nokkasiili View Post
    nokkasiili@archlinux: ~ % while true;do wget -q -O - "runescape.com/title.ws"| sed -e '/.*<p class="bottom"><span>\(.*\)<\/span>.*/!d;s//\1/g';sleep 5m;done

    88,642
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    works for me
    Haha nice, can check it without opening Simba now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by litoris View Post
    Haha nice, can check it without opening Simba now.
    It would boss if someone add rrdtool to it and generate some graphs

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    Hey nokka, would you know how to grab data from websites and putting it on google docs.

    Would be great if you lend some input on this thread

    http://villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90071

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    Quote Originally Posted by nokkasiili View Post
    It would boss if someone add rrdtool to it and generate some graphs
    I'm gonna graph it all in excel once I get more data.. and free time. Today there's even a bigger drop, and that's just awesome. Ca' wait for all the miners and wcers to die. My accs got rusty.
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