Declining population and update on MPPs

Day 2,785, 11:33 • Published in Belgium Belgium • by mittekemuis




To all genuine Country President candidates who didn’t get elected I want to say don’t give up next month you can try again.
To all the newly elected Country President, congratulations, make your Country proud under your rule.



Looking at total count CP votes over the years
Like I have been doing in past articles I am looking at some ingame data to see what has changed in the year I was inactive and with the Presidential elections I was looking at the number of votes casted. I find that Country President elections are a good indicator of how many people really actively play eRepublik. Mind you the number is never accurate because there are a lot of accounts floating about that only get awoken when election time that administrators not see fit to ban but that is no news I am sure.

These are the numbers directly taken from the eRepublik page. I took the numbers of the total votes count on each January CP voting from 2009 till 2015.
http://i.imgur.com/I7FeM1D.jpg



Putting them in to percentage but leaving out 2009 because that was still early days while the game was growing and developing.
http://i.imgur.com/wdEXG7L.jpg



Finally a little graphical view but now also leaving out 2010 because it would screw up the whole graphic with the huge baby-booms.
http://i.imgur.com/AOry3Rw.jpg



Conclusion
I have kept it fairly simple and it does not account for baby booms, permanent wipes or anything else for that matter. These numbers only show the declining number of active players in all countries I have decided to put in. I am sure if you go look to the rest of the 74 you see the same trending numbers. So when are we going to see a real change in this game and the promised players the administrators were going to attract?




With the help of Director9 we have now fancy statistical graphics so we can keep you updated about the MPP stacks.
http://i.imgur.com/D1i9GU6.jpg



The data represented here was taken a few weeks ago, did take me a while to get what I wanted. I remembered a similar graph visualizing the relationships between countries from someone else a long time ago. Did some googling, and found gephi to be the bit of software to use. After finally getting the spreadsheets pretty much automated I got to the point of filling in all the data. The graph itself is nothing too fancy, it’s just to give a quick glance at how the power is distributed in one way. Statisticians will probably be horrified, and smart ones will even be able to get different views out of the same data. Just sticking to the direct MPP connections would have been straightforward, giving me less lines and an insight in how countries band together. Instead I have chosen for the more indirect relationships between the many countries. I looked at 2 countries and their MPP stack, and added up all the common ones, giving me a number. The thicker the lines, the more common MPPs. Countries that have a direct MPP are of course even more closely linked, so I decided, that if that was the case I doubled the weight of the common MPP stack. The flags representing the countries are of different sizes, they correspond to the weekly damage I took (full 7 days). To give you an idea of the ratios of the size, Serbian damage (the biggest) is about 180 times bigger than the smallest flags. I guess the damage is related to the surface area of the flag, not the diameter of course. Then running the nifty little script that came with gephi I pulled this graph out of it. Tweaked it a bit, and it shows a small divide, only crossed by very small (in)direct MPPs. So no major relationships between those 2 areas. Some of the countries on the edge of that divide are linked to both sides, but one side slightly more than the other. Outside of this all, many countries left on their own, all lacking any serious damage. Like I said, statistically not 100% sound, but then again, you can proof just about anything with stats and the way one interprets and deals with them. Divisional differences are not taken into account, neither population ( hard to do, MU’s can have soldiers from many different countries). Maybe in the future a graph showing the MPP stack converted into damage can come along.

~ Director9

Saligia



I know I am not consistent with when I take the print screen of our glorious accomplishments on the battlefield but fact is that no other Belgian MU can reach our high Standards. As always, damage is outstanding in division 4, and Saligia extends invitations to the lower division eBe players to give us a call and see what we can do for you.