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Offline MachFly

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# of AH2 carton pilots
« on: December 15, 2010, 04:53:18 AM »
I'm trying to figure out how many people are registered for aces high? Just curious.
I know you can check by the score but you can only view the top 50 not the bottom, and I don't know anyone that has the worst score.
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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2010, 05:58:46 AM »
You will never know the exact number. Business secret :)


But you can look for the lowest overall rank you can find, which unfortunately has been made much more difficult by the recent removal of "my rank" function on the scorepage.

Or, more tedious but much more precise, you can look up all pilot names listed in all plane & gv stats, then compile that data. That will give you the ID of all players that had killed or been killed at least once during a tour. Of course, you won't know about any pilot playing special events only (but this is a minority), nor do you know how many of them had a subscription. (Business secret again ;) )

In the LW arena, we had about 4000 "active" players last tour.

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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2010, 09:51:05 PM »
I thought it would be somewhere around 4000
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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2010, 10:18:50 PM »
Of course, you won't know about any pilot playing special events only (but this is a minority), nor do you know how many of them had a subscription. (Business secret again ;) )

Last weekend there were 400+ people in the SE arena while there were @ 350 in the MA's.

Silent minority...?


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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2010, 11:38:57 PM »
Last weekend there were 400+ people in the SE arena while there were @ 350 in the MA's.

Silent minority...?


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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2010, 11:46:50 PM »
(but this is a minority)

Your turn



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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2010, 12:26:12 AM »
Your turn

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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2010, 12:40:34 AM »
Id guess around 5k myself.
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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2010, 12:59:23 AM »
Your turn



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As bighorn was too subtle apparently: ;)

How many of those in the SEA are playing special events exclusively and do never enter the MA's, not even once? Compared to the thousands of players that do appear in the MA, this number is a small minority.
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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2010, 08:04:47 AM »
For what it's worth, I just started playing again - and after my first scoreless couple sorties my rank is 3850 or so in fighters. This excludes those who fly only buffs, GVs, and/or attack. But since most players are going to get into a fighter sortie at SOME point during the month, it reinforces the about 4000 number Lusche has talked about.

And for what it's worth, doing the same kind of experiment before I left, there were more players 2 years ago.
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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2010, 08:09:45 AM »
I use this method for keeping track of the numbers

Or, more tedious but much more precise, you can look up all pilot names listed in all plane & gv stats, then compile that data. That will give you the ID of all players that had killed or been killed at least once during a tour.

And for what it's worth, doing the same kind of experiment before I left, there were more players 2 years ago.

about 50% more...
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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2010, 08:58:19 AM »
Yeah, I wasn't going to say...
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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2010, 10:02:27 AM »
You will never know the exact number. Business secret :)


But you can look for the lowest overall rank you can find, which unfortunately has been made much more difficult by the recent removal of "my rank" function on the scorepage.

The "myrank" option is still there.  It is part of the sub-menu "Rankings", listed as "Single Pilot".
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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2010, 10:08:49 AM »
We need a pie chart showing all the options and percentage of players using them. 
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Re: # of AH2 carton pilots
« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2010, 10:49:45 AM »
The "myrank" option is still there.  It is part of the sub-menu "Rankings", listed as "Single Pilot".

How could I miss that?  :confused:

We need a pie chart showing all the options and percentage of players using them. 

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