Ahhhh! This made my weekend! Two of my favorite bioware men. I blame Alistair for getting me hooked on bioware games, so as punishment he's my slave boy. Muhahahhahaa!!

Agreed. I did a few head counts before, and when we had "heavy", that same number of people on a different server was their "light". This is an except from a different thread, counting population: The average LIGHT destination server has 649 concurrent logins (range is 224-1056) The average STANDARD destination server has 1,419 concurrent logins (range is 660-2756) The average HEAVY destination server has 2,198 concurrent logins (range is 930-3604) The average VERY HEAVY destination server has 2735 concurrent logins (range is 1526 - 3394) The average FULL destination server has 3,638 concurrent logins (range is 3,166-3810) The range is what is important here, BC creates the lows. So when we have 930 people, we are listed as "heavy", and someone else has "light". with those same 930 people.

That's some nice use of the new gear, right there! I've been off in GW2 land, too... I just came back to check on this thread! How do we find your tumblr blog, so we can keep up with any new gw2-ish skimps? (not that they need it as badly, but still...want!)

Oh, I wasn't saying I wanted them to make it human with Cathar face paint. I'd rather take the larger Cathar-type bone structure. But they're not going to do it -- it'll be the same human heads we have for all the races -- maybe they'll just mix up the order again.

I'm guessing the playable Cathar will have to look somewhat different than the Cathar in game, because the in game Cathar have larger heads. The helmets wouldn't fit correctly. In game, I have a headband on Aric, and it's more of a backband -- it disappears into his head at the temples.

Get off my lawn! And your little pet, too! /grump I actually wish there were more varieties of pets and that they did a little more in their animations. Miss the little black kitty that would fly with me on a broomstick! Ooops. I think my wow is showing.

I can't get enough of those jackets with no shirt. I really wish they were in game. They're just so.... rawrrrr! (been oogling this thread for a long time, finally had to jump in and say something, because, mmm mmm good!)

Ysabeau and Isobel thank you! I just love looking at numbers! The differences between factions and types of characters are really interesting. I always guessed there were a lot of 50 level sorcerers. I've found when /who-ing, they're the first level 50 to go over 100 people. I've actually had a little bit of a problem using /who on full servers. Usually when it gives you outlandish numbers, a few enters will give you the correct number. Today while trying to count on Drooga I finally had to give up. It would never give a number. Obviously there were a lot of people on, because it was giving me numbers like 1186 and 1783. Scrolling the list it *really* was giving me all those people from all over the galaxy and all different levels! Wasn't any good for my data purposes, but was interesting. And thanks for all the data crunching and spreadsheets, Paige. Great work!!

I believe this is probably true. We're at "standard" right now (just ran the numbers) and we have 411 reps and 437 imps, for a total of 848 at standard. From watching torstatus, we should be going into "heavy" soon, and I'll try and catch the break point. Edit: These seem to be the same as they were previously, at about 650 we'd bump up into "standard". So it's possible (not enough data yet!) that while some servers were increased, BC stayed the same as it was before the transfers. I did a few checks on non-destination servers, but at very off-peak times.... on Zaalbar there were only 9 people on at 1am, including both sides. Just for some anecdotal data.

I, too, just find it interesting. Plus, I find it nice to see the increase in population [in Begeren Colony]. I can do a /who of 1-15 now, and get over 100 people! Before (when I was just checking numbers, not entering on the form) I'd be able to do 3 searches ( 1-25, 26-49, 50 ) and get the total population on one side. I'll be interested to see if we continue to grow as more people transfer over, or if the rest are staying at their original server and we even out. p.s. Great work, Paige!!

Skipping over the if they should or should not be used argument, here's something that might work for adding them to your friend's list, or whispering them if you are not in the same vicinity (and therefore can't click on their portrait). It only works if they are online, however. You can use the /who command to find the person by searching for general information, if you don't know specifics. Like "/who 20-29" will return all the people within those level ranges, and then you can sort alphabetically to find your person. Or if you know more information, "/who 22-25 sage" will return any sages within the 22 to 25 levels. You could even type, "jedi taris" and have it return all the jedi (sage, sentinel, guardian, shadow) that are on Taris. If you really don't have any information on them, but you know at least three consecutive letters in their name, you can also try "/who abc" and it will return people who have those letters in their name (As long as the letters aren't interrupted by a ' or a - or another special character). This will find first names and guild names, but not legacy names. Once you have them on the list of people, you can click to add them to your friend's list, and never have to try to type a special character again!

Begeren Colony has been lower in population the last day or so, but for the past couple months it's been higher. I've been tracking populations on both of them (since I have characters on both). Begeren has been higher on torstatus by just a few points (so very small margin). Plus, every Friday and Saturday I've been running /who at 8pm to get a total number of players online, and in the last two months Begeren has always been higher, though sometimes not by much. Given, I don't have data from before April, and it's only a small amount of data I do have (twice a week @ 8pm), but I'm guessing from Bioware's choice Begeren must have been the highest of the three RP-PVE servers, west coast.

I've been trying to check today on the "light" vs "standard" for our server, and I can definitely say (at least as of today) that when the population goes above 599 we become categorized as "standard". There seems to be a little fluctuation in the 500-599 range, most likely due to people logging in and out and the server status changing back and forth before I can get a true headcount. As far as my data collecting shows, Paige's population numbers for light and standard are correct. A fleet population snapshot: Just a little bit ago (roughly 9pm Pacific on a west coast server), we had about 325 (+/- 10) people on each side (for a rough estimate of 650) and about 43 (+/- 5) on each fleet. We're on RP server, so we might have more people hanging around fleet than 10%. Also, I haven't been doing any fleet/population studies, so this has the potential to vary greatly!!

I have been /who-ing my server (Bergeren Colony) which is light most of the time, with maybe a few forays into standard. Still, we make it into the top 20 US. At low tide ( the wee hours of the morning, say 4am or so), we have less than 100 people playing. Last night's count: 63 Republic side and 38 Imperial side. At high tide just last week it was about 750 +/-, and that took it to standard. The past day it hasn't reached standard, but we have been the first server listed after the standards. The highest number of people I've /who-ed (given 50 people could come on right after I sign off!) has been 596 (total, rep/imps) Just now we are still at 'light', and right below the last 'standard'. I'm not sure ordering the servers like this actually works, but it *appears* to. I've been ordering it by population and then randomly testing the populations to see if the were indeed in order. They seem to be. Anyway, with Light at 1:40pm on a Sunday holiday weekend (west coast server & time) we have 170 (1-49's) and 69 (50's) Republic side, along with 169 (1-49's) and 41 (50's) Imperial side. I haven't had the chance to hard test the theory, but I think had we gone over into 600+ people, we would've changed to "standard". I've started to enter my /who counts in the server population chart --- I think that was a wonderful idea!! To the OP -- great thread and wonderful work on your math! I'm another person that loves data. It's interesting!! (And on a totally bias server plug -- Begeren Colony is great! RP-PVE west coast server, where the Republic pop is slightly heavier than the Imperial pop and the people are nice! I hope people re-roll there!)

Yummy. I'm doing this next time. It gets hot in that room, working so hard... it's only fair to let him take his shirt off. I'd be doing the guy a favor. And Risha too. Oh, she'd complain -- all while watching out of the corner of her eye.