Erm... Windu couldn't beat Sidious, but Sidious couldn't beat Windu EITHER. The more darkness Sidious channeled, the more Windu would be able to turn around to use as power to fight him. Had Anakin sided with Windu, Sidious would have failed. However, after that moment, he'd won strategically. Beating him in a fight wouldn't have defeated him. A different approach was required, because no amount of power could have DEFEATED him - even in death, he would still have won. Vader would have taken over as Emperor, and even if he didn't the Republic would still have been hunting the Jedi. By the time that fight happened, its outcome was no longer relevant - such is the brilliance of his plan.

... What does this have to do with electrical engineers?

... I kind of want to see a short film about the TOR Mail Droid now...

Part of the company's mission statement, pretty sure.

Yes, it is. Part of the strategy you have to worry about is keeping people from simply leaping to the goal.

That, or a mail droid stalks you.

Mobile access to mail would be nice, but the risk is that it hampers social activity because you're no longer being forced into the public space. Maybe being able to access the text of it, but not transferred items/ credits, whilst on the run would be a good compromise?

Do keep in mind that some of the stuff that comes from data-mining can't actually be found in the game at the moment. Thus, TORHead, DHDB, and others have items on their databases that are not in game.

Bad information is not better than no information. And when trying to draw conclusions about population, this is bad information.

Fun fact: Those are inaccurate because they use an abstraction, specifically the light/medium/heavy tags, which has changed since launch.

Alternatively, give Synthweavers/Armourmechs the ability to "upgrade" social gear to have an augment slot, using a rare material to do so. This then becomes a service those crafters can perform for other players, fostering more direct interaction.

Aha. My mistake, apologies and such.

... Do you somehow think you shouldn't have to use interrupts?

But it's not the same as absolute population. It's influenced by absolute population, but it's not at all the same. Basically, if this were presented and interpreted ONLY as offering insight on concurrency, that would be one thing. But the moment you see someone saying this relates to, say, sub numbers it's being radically misinterpreted. See, this is an example of someone misusing the data. You cannot comment on population based on concurrency.

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No. Do not fall for the delusion that this correlates to population in any way. It relates ONLY to concurrency. If I were to use this methodology 5 times, and see 50 000 players each time I could in fact be seeing anywhere between 50 000 and 250 000 players. And the actual population could in fact be quite a lot larger than that, with this method providing absolutely no indication of such a thing.

Nope. Completely absent of construct validity, so in addition to some flaws in even your newly corrected sampling suggestion, it's of no use.

Someone doesn't understand sampling.

Which was itself, in a certain sense, a test for her. By contrast, Sidious was using his apprentices as tools to cast aside. Besides, the Rule of Two isn't about bureaucracy - "official" doesn't matter.

He also started in on Dooku before Maul's death, and we all know he started in on Anakin before Dooku's death. Sidious was the product of the rule of two that led to the closest thing the Sith had to true victory. But in breaking it, he also engineered his own failure.

It's entirely useless. First, it doesn't measure population. It measures concurrency within a narrow window. These are very different things. Second, his sample is TINY - only covering a very short window of time. Third, unless I missed something it only covers weeknights, and for that matter only fairly early times - a great many players do not play until later than that. Any sort of "peak" period would be broader than what is suggested. And so on, and so on. The combination of all the factors involved means that, essentially, this yields no usable information.

It is in fact utterly useless. And don't call this "research" - that denigrates actual research.

That is a deeply flawed method - far too much so to yield any sort of remotely reliable information. In other words, it's linking to false information for no purpose other than trolling.

It's just... Was that "ground-breaking/buried alive" pun intentional? Because it's great.