Times of Day

[Charlie Reams]

I think I posted something like this before, but here is updated for the first two years of games.



Notice how it's a nice smooth curve everywhere, except for a sudden dip between about 15:15 and 16:00

[Matt Morrison]

Awesome! Lovely to see. And the dip at-or-just-after midnight is presumably the server doing its reboot thing?
Sexy, lots of games. Well done you.

[Charlie Reams]

Awesome! Lovely to see. And the dip at-or-just-after midnight is presumably the server doing its reboot thing?

Interesting question. At first I thought it was just an artefact of the graph wrapping around, but if we rotate the times through 12 hours, it becomes quite distinct:



The reboot-at-midnight thing was a bug and I thought quite a short-lived one, so I'm surprised it's made such a dent, but that might be part of it the explanation. Another possibility is that the points just before midnight are smooth, and then there's a sudden jump just after midnight as lots of people log in to play the duel. Not sure.

[Howard Somerset]

My immediate thought about the midnight dip, even before reading the comments, was that it was people not starting a game in the minutes leading up to midnight so that they could be among the first to play the duel.

[Jon O'Neill]

Awesome.

[Charlie Reams]

My immediate thought about the midnight dip, even before reading the comments, was that it was people not starting a game in the minutes leading up to midnight so that they could be among the first to play the duel.

I should've said before that those times are game-end rather than game-start, so if anything it's probably the reverse.

Also, necro'd.