On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Ron Cole wrote:
->That's a little low, we've been up for a little over 2 years, with I'd guess,
->and average of 40-50 players online at a time. We're on id #27000 or so. Let's
->say we use 15,000 a year, that gives us a lifespan of about 143,000 years. In
->the example that you replied to, I think it was 100 players online average, so
->halve that. It's still nothing to worry about unless you're getting into
->hundreds of thousands of users online tho... :-) In a pinch you could make that
->unsigned and double your lifespan.
Argh, but id numbers only get assigned to new players, not to everyone
that logs in. And even if they weren't, and you got 10000 connections
per day for a full year (yah, right) it'd still take 6 centuries to
run out of id numbers. That situation is completely ludicrous though,
because it disregards the fact that id numbers are assigned only to
new characters, and assumes your MUD will be up 24 hours a day for a
full year.
Also, as for that "100 players average" per day: I doubt it. Which is
not to say that I don't think the MUD can get 100 players online at
the same time. But, to get the average number of users in a day,
you'd get the number of players online every hour for a full
day, divided by 24 (hours in a day).
Even if from 6p-12a they had 100 players online give or take a few,
unless they have a lot of international, dedicated, or simply
unemployed users, 1a-9p is going to be pretty barren, and 10p-5p
probably won't reach 100. With a generous allowance of players in
these off-times (10 throughout the entire 8 hour period following
midnight; and 30 during normal work/school hours) you still have about
an average of 38 players per day.
-dak
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