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.

So I think we have at most 999,000 accounts since only ~1/10000 possible ID strings are actually used b/c the first two nd last two digits are scrapped each time.

Knyte, here is a jo*hark* I mean a task for you :) Sort clans based on when its members joined warlight. Not going to yield anything super useful but still a fun factor. Pretty Please.

@TBest: done (http://pastebin.com/nxBVpJuR)

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.

You wouldn't even need to do a lot of scraping to get a decent graph of this, since it would be an XY plot. Just sample a bunch of players (even just from those posting in the forums would be a good start), find each (ID, Join date) pair, and plot it. If your hypothesis is correct, then the result should be a strictly monotonic graph, and it would give a lot of visual information about WL growth, including spurts and trends.

I bet even as low as 50 (relatively random) samples would still give a good rough graph. Certainly knyte's existing data contains enough information already to produce a very good graph, esp. considering there are clans containing very old players and ones containing very new players.

Would underestimate player growth in the recent past and overestimate growth in the far past because people don't join clans immediately.

hey kynte serjestions on how to tell weather they are alts alts check wich ip they use

the only problem is if they use internet cafes

Interesting data there knyte - turns out 13 of REGLs 66 members (20% of us) joined warlight in the month of October 2011.

@muddles: That info isn't exactly publicly accessible.

ok

Edited 12/25/2015 16:30:06

"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."

(55560/178)*602=187905
275549 =146,6% of 187905.
So in the period of 07-02-14 till 02-10-15 are 46,6% more accouns made the betwean 13-08-13 till 07-02-14

An increase of 46,6% is what I would expect in a period of around 2 years.