GP statistics May 2021

Adam and I have had some fun with some statistics that we pulled from the website. Only user that has been active on the gamersplane.com with the last year are included

First the big one: Number of posts pr user

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Number of games pr user

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The number of characters a user has made. I'm seeing a pattern here Qralloq

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How many posts have a user made divided by the days the user has been active. That gives us an average posts pr day

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Distribution of the players that have marked their location.
The location data is very unstructured, so there is a bit more hit and miss here.

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Gender distribution. There is a lot of players who have not defined their gender :/

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The number of game pr game systems

Thanks to both of you. This was fun to see!

Yeppers. Was looking for AD&D but couldn't find it on the list.. oh well. Thanx for the graphs.

Yes, this is fun. I love that the only list I appear on is the one for number of characters created per user. Come join a game I run! See lots of fun avatar artwork! XD

Interesting. Does this data go back to when GP was first created, or is it back to a specific date?

I also wonder how many of those games were recruited for versus "shadow" games that either never get off the ground or people play through direct invites. There could be a fair amount of users that are never seen in a public fashion (on public forums or the Discord).

there is much more data, but to keep it relevant, I excluded player info for players who have not been active for more than a year

Hah, fun read.

Thanks for putting this together you two!

GP has consumed more and more of my time over these past 6.5 years. I enjoy it more as each day goes forward.

Reading this is also like typing /played in World of Warcraft: "3,000 hours? On one character? Gulp."

Now if only we knew how many of those 205 Savage Worlds games actually made it past character creation.

I am a little bummed to see there have only been 10 games of 7th Sea. That is a game I'd like to try out. Maybe I'll have to start one up myself when I get a chance.

Thanks for rolling these up. I always like seeing things like this.

If it helps, every Savage Worlds game I've been in has made it past character creation.

I am surprised that 13th Age was the 3rd most used system. I am not sure what I would have guessed, but not that.

But man, this 'Custom' must be a great system. I need to check it out one of these days

It's universal, has rules for everything, but doesn't have to be crunchy!

Custom is my favorite game by far.

But I like Crunchy as well as flavor!

Qralloq is just lucky Jabes fell in a wormhole... :P

You're not wrong. He's been gone for a year+ and had made 18,917 posts

I do miss Jabes.

Me too, I wish we could be sure he is OK

Fun stats, thanks for producing and posting these!

All I'm saying is that me or my bf won the rulebook in a raffle and we have yet to open it, so an excuse would be welcome.

Fantastic work RK. That geo chart is really interesting.

Although...
Yeah... about that... why does GP even ask that question?

I can kinda understand the age question. It's a reach, but perhaps my younger gaming buddies might not understand some older references. Umm.... I can't really think of anything else for age.

But what am I supposed to do with gender information?! "None of GP's damn business" is probably the correct answer.

I suppose the only time I would ever need to know is when referring to the player in the third person in an OOC thread, but "they" works fine as a pronoun.

e.g. "They're on holiday", "They decided to play a rogue", "They quit GP because I was creepily asking them if they wanted to roll blue dice or pink."

I don't mind it asking the question but I'm not surprised most people don't have it filled out.
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It really depends on the people. Some are comfortable with it. For others, it a huge part of their identity and is really important. Others are uncomfortable or couldn't care less... I'm just surprised there's not an option for "other"...

Huh, that is true. I misremembered and thought it was a fillable field. The way it is now is odd.

Holycow. Great stats!

Damn now I wish I wasn't as obsessive with my house keeping to delete inactive characters and number of games played. Gotta try and give Qralloq a run for his money.
Thanks for the stats Runekyndig!

Don't. Qralloq is, as we would call it, a statistical outlier.

I'll ask Adam to generate a new dataset in the autumn. Then we can compare data - that is fun too :) #mynerdisshowing

It would indeed be fun to see these stats again in the fall.

Wow this is really interesting! And I'm not the tiniest bit surprised which names topping those charts LOL!

I'm certain that you'd be #1 or #2 on many of those lists if you hadn't had to take time away.

Well it is easy to remove the 'last activity within 365' restraint, and then we do see Jabes on the lists

One thing I dont understand is how Qralloq keeps up with twice as many games as me with fewer posts per day

Remember that posts pr day is a derived statistic from numbers of posts divided by numbers of days on the site. If you had a long period where you did not post, then this statistic will drop

Also, playing vs. GMing. You're going to make a lot more posts in a game you GM vs. a game you simply play in...

I think Q runs more than I do, though. But the over time thing probably explains it. I bet if we were just comparing stats for the past year, Q would have a much higher posting rate than me

Since the stats became available, I've averaged more than 30 per day (5,084 posts in 167 days.) A huge chunk of that is the duets I play with Windyridge where we each often post 2-3 times per day per game.

Yup, definitely more than I post 😄

Haha that's interesting!


Joke memes aside, it bears repeating that this isn't a competition.

These stats are interesting. I like seeing the geographic distribution. It's cool to see how widespread the GP/gaming community is. I know it's a lot of work, but a translation feature for GP could be interesting for future versions.

On a more personal note, I had the impression that I was a much heavier user of the site than I ever was, lol.

Certainly not competing, just observing.

As in, offering the interface in a different language? Could probably be done, no idea how tough that would be. I'd even offer to do translating into German 😄
But I'm not sure how useful that would be since the lingua franca here will still be English. I'm not sure how many non-English games there are.
I tried once to join a German game but it died in Character Creation, unfortunately.

Is there a way we can see game systems per user? Maybe somehow counting the number of custom games separately?

You mean, as in who tried out / has played in the most different systems?

The most unneeded spoiler tag ever. Lol

You can say that again!

I'll look into it :)

Damn, I have a lot of posts!

Adam dropped me datadump and I made a quick powerbi report.

I tried looking into how players are connected through games, but the social network analysis was acting up so I am not happy with it. There are properly several hours of work before I'm satisfied



I have deleted this social network analys map as it was wrong

That's super interesting! Thanks for sharing

[quote="runekyndig"]I tried looking into how players are connected through games, but the social network analysis was acting up so I am not happy with it. There are properly several hours of work before I'm satisfied

That looks really cool but I'm not sure I understand it. Are those circles of dots players that generally play together?

Wow.

Can you label those central nodes? I bet we can all guess who those are 😆

Cool how the network shows so many tight groups separating

I'm curious how connections are determined. Is this based on games that you are currently a member of? I know many users that leave games once they are done. Or, is there some permanent record of who has been in a game?

This is a better Social Network Analysis. Each dot is a username, and each line is between two users who have been in a game together. If it is one time or several we cant tell in this one. And each time lookup a dot, the map is redrawn, so I cant put labels on it.



BUT what we can see, is that we have several isolated groups that playes just among them selfs, and in the middle we have the comunity. Some players, like Naatkinson and adam have played with a lot of other players, and those are the centers of those flowers.

I assume quitting a game (if it dies/ends for example) removes your connection so a few of those may be just currently isolated but have more connections in reality no?

(same happens with game and character number)

Love this analysis -- thanks to both Adam and runekyndig for spending time on this kind of thing! Meta, baby.

Yes, that makes sense.

Data is beautiful.

I assume so. Which makes me sort of wonder what my actual stats are, given I've routinely quit games after they ended.

Yea, I just checked. 58 is the number of active and retired games I'm still in. That doesn't include the games I've quit, before or after they ended

and through those 58 games, you have been playing with 135 unique players 294 in total (we have played together in several games, and I am counted once as a unique player and X times in those X games we have playes together)

That's how I understand it.

So on average, I'm playing with each player 2.18 times

We have never gamed together, bowlofspinach. Need to add another notch to our belts! XD

Any interest in Tales from the Loop? 😁

I'm going off-topic here, but I was in a Loop game run by Santouche. Fun while it lasted, but the awkward kid I played hit a little close to home. I don't think I'm emotionally ready to do that again. Thanks for the offer, though!

It's weird to see my name on one of those lists. Also, the analysis is fun, and thank you to the people putting these numbers together. Looking at the data, I have to wonder if 2020 isn't an anomaly for obvious pandemic-related reasons.

Bowlofspinach, if you are still looking for a Savage Worlds (SWADE) game, I might be starting one up here in a little bit. Setting is undecided, but will probably be pulp or Weird War II, but if you have a preference, I'll take it under consideration. Both you and your BF are welcome. I am very gentle with new players.

Me and my BF?

I'm not actively looking for Savage Worlds games but thanks for the offer. Those specific settings are not ones I'm interested in

*smacks self*

My apologies! Wrong person! Light of Midnight was who I was aiming at. It was she who mentioned a boyfriend. Again, I'm so sorry! Not to say that you would not be welcome in one of my games, had they been to your liking, mind you!

*goes off to write "I will read more closely" 100 times*

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That explains it. No worries