How Big Is Illy?

Mr. Ubiquitous Feral wrote: I have just settled a new city.  I began to wonder how many new cities there are in a week?  Are cities being settled on a daily basis?  Perhaps a GM would tell us the stats.

It's actually quite a difficult question to answer, as there are of course towns also being abandoned by inactives, and the difference depends on how many inactive accounts we "throw out" for each new player who joins (something we tweak occasionally).  There are also second/third etc towns being created as well.

In terms of raw data, though, there are generally between 50 and 80 new towns added to Illyriad each day.

For example, the last 14 days:

Date TownsFounded
2011-03-06 00:00:00.000    71
2011-03-05 00:00:00.000    50
2011-03-04 00:00:00.000    51
2011-03-03 00:00:00.000    54
2011-03-02 00:00:00.000    50
2011-03-01 00:00:00.000    51
2011-02-28 00:00:00.000    42
2011-02-27 00:00:00.000    63
2011-02-26 00:00:00.000    76
2011-02-25 00:00:00.000    58
2011-02-24 00:00:00.000    78
2011-02-23 00:00:00.000    79
2011-02-22 00:00:00.000    93
2011-02-21 00:00:00.000    78

Regards,

SC

I want something tremendously cool to happen every time I click on the fountain in the middle of my town map.

We have access to those stats.  towndata.xml has us covered, if we take the time to extract the data into more useful format.  It's on my TODO list, and partly what my XML Parsing post was about.