There could be fewer accounts than people.

That's impossible.*

• People create an account for themselves, so 1 person = 1 account.
  
• People multi-account (aka have alts), like Death. For example, 1 person = >=1 account.
  

To make it algebraic:
xp = xa
and
xp => a

Based on xp = xa:
(x/x)p = a
x/x = a/p
x = a/p

For example:
p=2, a=2

(x/x)*2 = 2
x/x = 2/2
x = 1 This means for every player, there is one account.

Based on xp => a:
x => a/p

For example:
a=5, p=2

x => 5/2
x => 2.5
because it's an odd number...
P1 = player one, P2 = player two
round up x: 3. So, P1 = 3. This means P1 has 3 accounts.
round down x: 2. So P2 = 2. This means P2 has 2 accounts.

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* = *Sees j willy 47's comment.*
<small>Assuming there isn't account sharing.</small>

Edited 12/24/2015 21:57:11

What if two people share an account Dan? Then what?

^
nice idea, there are actually people who do that, so thats a legit question.

its a good point, but do those people outnumber death's alts?

good ponit

About 40.

40 what

why dont we have a mathematical equation


if one=one
some share so one=1/2
some have more so one=2 or more

we know that death's alts make about 99%

therefore everyone else is the 1%

therefore there are 1000 real players and 99000 death alts

^ 8/10 maths - IGN

more then i can count on one hand.

There's at least 6,892 unique accounts. I ran a few searches across all players that were in a clan (as of 4 days ago) or had ever competed in a ladder (seasonal, RT, 1v1, 2v2, or 3v3) and that's the number of accounts I found- including inactives and all.

If you want to find all accounts (no real way to exclude alts, but you can exclude inactive accounts, accounts that have played 0 games, accounts that never finished any of the single-player levels, etc.), you'll basically have to search the entire possible range of IDs (which I believe to be from 10000000 to 10000000000*- so that's 9,990,000,000 (successful) requests to the Warlight server, and 9,990,000,000 pages to scrape and parse unless there's a better way or Fizzer just hands you the answer). This is where BeautifulSoup comes in handy.

* from what I can tell, ID's range from 8 digits to 10 digits in length and never begin with a 0, so they cover at most the integer range [10000000, 10000000000).

So to the extent of my knowledge:

6,892 < # of total accounts < 9,990,000,000

Edited 12/24/2015 20:56:50

So much for infinity players then ^_^

ta knyte.

aslo with the alts thing couldn't you run a check using ip

Edited 12/24/2015 21:03:25

@Knyte, Here is a secret. You can scrap a player's profile URL's two first digits and two last digits to find their "true" ID. This "playerID" goes up by one for each new account.

So Fizzer is, I assume, the 1st account at 4649. (there are players with Lower playerID, not sure how the player IDs were assigned in the beginning of WL.)

And a random account I just made is 606130.

Which gives 601 481 accounts in between. Yes. There is about 601 481 accounts made.. as of this writing. Goes up as time passes. Of course this also includes alts and Unused accounts.

Edited 12/24/2015 21:26:59

See muddles, my answer WAS right!

@TBest: that explains why all the client requests scrap those digits. Thanks!

You can scrap a player's profile URL's two first digits and two last digits to find their "true" ID. This "playerID" goes up by one for each new account.

If what your saying is correct, then so is the surprising data:



Full playerIDs:
Main - 9522268564
Alt 1 - 5527824594
Alt 2 - 9255379481

275549 accounts being made in a total of 602 days seem well to high, in comparison with 55560 being made in a total of 178 days.

Edited 12/24/2015 22:55:01

366988 for me, doesn't seem like warlight's population has nearly doubled since I've been here.

Well to test that I am right you can just create 2 accounts right after each other :)

Also, that is a great way to use that information @DanWL. I might just end up tracing WL growth that way from beginning until the end.


@Ben, Well I neither feel that the player base have grown soo much... but then I think about the huge increase in number of trolls on the forum. Now that has changed a lot.