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How popular is Lancers Reactor?

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Norse Player

Post Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:23 pm

How popular is Lancers Reactor?

I checked Alexa to see how popular, and especialy when it was most popular:
http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=379&h= ... or.com/&u=

This graph shows that it was quite popular around March - April, a drop, before it entered the popularity-chart again in June. Any reason for this, except that the summer-holidays began in June and that it was released in March? Lastly, I've noticed that it was sporadic traffic in December, before a huge peak lately. Maybe because of the desire to see an expansion-set with a continuation of the story-line.....

Norse Player
PS.I have Alexa's reg. installed, so this might affect the reading on Alexa, not everybody has it, and there might have been much greater traffic than shown at the graph.
PPS.Reply to '"What are you getting at here?" - well, 1) one reason is to show that there's an instrument that can show how popular a certain website are, 2) show the traffic at Lancers Reactor, and not surprisingly it shows most traffic around when Freelancer was released, 3) Incentive to NOT drop Lancers Reactor as a future website visiting, but to draw strength knowing this. And 4), because I thought it would be fun

Edited by - Norse Player on 1/23/2004 9:23:21 PM - graph not shown, decided to KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid)

Edited by - Norse Player on 1/23/2004 9:24:36 PM

Edited by - Norse Player on 1/23/2004 9:34:16 PM

Wolf_Demon

Post Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:28 pm

so wat r u getting at here?

edit: if the lancers reactor went down i would have a nervous break down

i am among the 5[% with DSL that doesnt want pictures with the news posts on the home page

Edited by - ):Wolf_Demon on 1/23/2004 9:48:00 PM

Norse Player

Post Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:12 pm

I sent in my recommandation to Amazon, gave it five stars etc. In a strange way TLR has become a watering hole for me
I suspect those Shakesperean stories from sS has something to do with it.

Norse Player

ElectricBrain

Post Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:12 pm

TLR gets around 10,000 unique visitors a day still. The real number hovers around that.

Norse Player

Post Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:27 pm

Then I hope at least 0.5% of those are people from the programming community (or the movers-shakers). By then I sincerely (!!!) hope that they've read sS' list of things we want in the game (expansion or new game). What was the numbers in the 'heyday' in March-May last year? Must have been millions......

Norse Player

Griffon_26

Post Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:13 pm

fat chance

Neo_Kuja

Post Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:40 pm

We sure ain't that popular.
E-bay has a couple million,and that's an online market place. So I'd have to agree with ElectricBrain. 10,00 seems about right.

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Kendo THM

Post Fri Jan 23, 2004 11:46 pm

wait a second...theres something fishy about that graph...

why is it:

40,000


60,000


80,000


100,000

shouldn't it be the other way round (meaning

100,000

80,000

60,000

40,000

etc.

Or is that just me?

Tawakalna

Post Sat Jan 24, 2004 2:44 am

it looks upside down to me, too.

anyway what's Lancers Reactor? isn't this www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/community/chat? who are all you people?

gromit

Post Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:31 am

thisisstaffordshire?!!!?!?!?!

I thought that this was a web design help board.....goddamnit, you mean I've been posting for jobs on a game site??!

By the way, its really obvious why the figures went up in june...the game was released march, most people bought in april and may, give them a month to get stuck on the game and what month are we in? June. Simple logic really.

As for December, its christmas, of course the figures are gonna be odd...most of us do have lives as well as TLR. And January? Its new year! We're a sociable bunch, everybody pops back in january even if its just to see how everyone's holiday went. Its really basic psychology.

Are we really amongst 10,000 unique visitors a day?!! Can you imagine if they all started to visit Off Topic?!!! We'd never be able to keep up to date.

Arcon

Post Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:15 am

ive boycotted half the threads in OT on sheer principal

Orillion.

Post Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:26 am

The Lancersreactor is this popular:



The screenshot was taken 1/24/2004 05:16 PST, Lancersreactor time, and i have only blurred everything around the user count, in Photoshop

EDIT: If the picture doesn't show up, visit this adress

Edited by - Orillion v2 on 1/24/2004 5:32:31 AM

H.Q. Victor

Post Sat Jan 24, 2004 7:18 am

TLR and FL have their popularity. It grows every day. MS and DA are aware of this no matter the number of threads saying this. By you playing the games, mods ect, you prove the poularity without the need of graphs and debates. If you want to increase the popularity, play the game on-line and invite your non-playing friends to join freelancer and get interested in it and in moding. For those who are demanding mods, take it apone yourself and learn to mod. You have the ideas, learn to apply them. Be productive and help the site grow more.

Finalday

"I's a queen....she'll breed....you'll die.......any questions?"



Edited by - Finalday on 1/24/2004 7:22:18 AM

Setsuna

Post Sat Jan 24, 2004 12:45 pm

Ahem... Alexa Related is spyware. Get rid of it.
How popular is Lancers Reactor?

Very.


Careful what you wish... You just might get it.

Sir Spectre

Post Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:45 pm

Lancers Reactor could be the most visited forum on the web or the least, I wouldn't know any different. I never visit any others, sorry me chaps who host or moderate for other forums, but I can't be arsed enough to slink a peek at any others. As it is, my activity on this site is waning and it is indeed proper and a bit ironic that it is reflected in my final number in the perusing list.

50. Poster frequency can be measured in a bell curve; in the beginning with a few posts of moderate size then growing until a point where interest wanes and it decreases until one returns in single sentence intervals every once in a while.

I'm not quite to single sentences yet, but maybe soon.

With a preemptive "Bugger off if you don't like it!" to Arcon, I say "Have a good day!" to all the rest including Arcon!

Have a good day!

Sir S

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