State of the Nexus

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Weirdomen
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State of the Nexus

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Hello all,
I've played around with numbers from the current factions, just for fun. Scraped character data starting from faction rosters, and churned it a bit. Here's the results, bear in mind that they don't account for factionless characters.
The sums for all factions today are:

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Angel        Advocate             24
             Archon               18
             Exalted Harbinger    14
             Holy Champion         7
             Lightspeaker         20
             Paladin               6
             Redeemed             11
             Seraph               31
             Shepherd              8
Demon        Corruptor            14
             Dark Oppressor       29
             Defiler               5
             Doom Howler          13
             Fallen               11
             Infernal Behemoth    48
             Pariah                7
             Void Walker          19
             Wyrm Master          21
Transcended  Conduit              41
             Elementalist         42
             Eternal Soldier      32
             Lich                 32
             Myrmidon              7
             Nexus Champion       24
             Revenant             29
             Sorcerer             17
             Wizard               38
Mortal       Mortal               56
             

The distribution of characters into good, unaligned and evil factions is quite even, with a bit less characters in unaligned factions (link to the interactive image):

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But the transcended are more numerous than angels and demons (link to the interactive image):

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Here are the characters broken down by class, but I really suggest to check the interactive image, where you can click to expand (click in the center to restore zoom):

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And finally, the composition of good, evil and unaligned factions, separated by character class; again, check the interactive image, it's better, you can click to expand.

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The API also gives information about skills... Perhaps I'll check that next!
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Interesting info, thanks for sharing!
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I find the majority of Transcended classes surprising, as I do find myself leaning more towards Angels and Demons than Transcended. I dunno, thematically the battle between Heaven and Hell hits harder than "oh yeah this third party exists too and they get to halfway ignore a core mechanic of the game". Interesting.

Also, if you've 1 credit or more you can use the "Global Character Stats" on the character selection page that gives data on all players in aggregate, including how often skills are picked. There's a few only one character in the Nexus has, and even a few that have no one at all (or at least, last time I checked).
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NearNihil wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 8:37 am Also, if you've 1 credit or more you can use the "Global Character Stats" on the character selection page that gives data on all players in aggregate, including how often skills are picked. There's a few only one character in the Nexus has, and even a few that have no one at all (or at least, last time I checked).
Hi, thanks! From the global stats it's cool to infer how many ferals are there.
The main reason I got this data, is that if I want to make a certain build, I can check which are the current level ~30 characters with a certain skill, and plan the build better. But graphing it was too cool to pass. :)
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Other cool tidbits:

Factions' renown, divided by the number of members (link):
(showing only Good, Evil and Unaligned factions with more than 1 member).

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One would think that evil factions are more effective renown-wise.
However, evil factions also have higher level members, on average (link):

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And faction renown divided by average member level sort of equilibrates good and evil factions (link):

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And P.S., what vindicates Unaligned factions is that their stats are brought down by several small-ish factions that don't have much renown.

If I only graph the factions with, say, more than 5 members, I get (link):

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Weirdomen wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 10:40 am
NearNihil wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 8:37 am Also, if you've 1 credit or more you can use the "Global Character Stats" on the character selection page that gives data on all players in aggregate, including how often skills are picked. There's a few only one character in the Nexus has, and even a few that have no one at all (or at least, last time I checked).
Hi, thanks! From the global stats it's cool to infer how many ferals are there.
The main reason I got this data, is that if I want to make a certain build, I can check which are the current level ~30 characters with a certain skill, and plan the build better. But graphing it was too cool to pass. :)
There are 118 active ferals.

There are 55 feral mortals, 21 of them Level 1. 6 are above level 10. (There are 17 above-level-10 mortals in the world and 38 level 1 mortals in the world counting factioned characters.)

21 demons:
7 Wyrm Masters
4 Void Walkers
4 Behemoths
2 Fallen
1 Doom Howler
2 Pariahs
1 Defiler

24 transcends:
2 Wizards
7 Revenants
2 Nexus Champions
7 Liches
3 Eternal Soldiers
2 Myrmidons
1 Sorcerer

19 angels:
1 Seraph
4 Redeemed
2 Lightspeakers
1 Holy Champion
3 Exalted Harbingers
1 Advocate
3 Shepherds
4 Paladins
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This is great. The graph of faction alignment and class is my favorite!
thanks for making these
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Faction Renown tell no useful information imo unless it shows renown used.
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Dissident wrote: Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:35 am Faction Renown tell no useful information imo unless it shows renown used.
I'm super up to using other metrics, that I can get :)
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