Inaccurate " players online " ?

[Limeez]

So atm the website says Ragnaros has 2285 people online, Downladed censusplus, tried it, it only detected 190 people online? Explain?

[Michiel1234]

So atm the website says Ragnaros has 2285 people online, Downladed censusplus, tried it, it only detected 190 people online? Explain?

your addon fails? :)

[Limeez]

Can you tell me a census addon that " Doesn't fail " ?

[Anyone0]

Player count on website should be accurate. The addon is probably showing wrong information because /who queries can be done only once per like 30 seconds. Also an addon has no way to accurately measure player count on both factions even if it worked.

[Limeez]

So i'm just starting, an average of 2500 ppl online, is that true? do you guys feel that the servers are populated? i've played servers that say " 5050 ppl online " but i'd go for 5 hours without seeing anyone.

[Anyone0]

Population is accurate. Dalaran is full of people, there are many active guilds and lots of raids and battlegrounds happening all the time.

[Kemii]

population on the website is correct.

As Anyone as said it's down to server query bottleneck for add ons.

There are so many instances, such a big map, so many people doing stuff you barely notice just how many people are online.

I noticed a Screenshot the other day and someone had an addon that showed how many active BGs there were, there were 151 BGs going. Though this was at peak time.

[Sixtyninee]

I noticed a Screenshot the other day and someone had an addon that showed how many active BGs there were, there were 151 BGs going. Though this was at peak time.

That would be from from AV Enabler, which is calling GetNumBattlefields(), and I highly doubt that's accurate because I actually saw it at just over 900 this morning (US time). I'm assuming the API is counting total instances running instead of just BGs. You can test it yourself with /run print(GetNumBattlefields()) and as of this moment it reports 90 on Ragnaros for me, while the website says we have a population of 1720 online.

[Kemii]

That would be from from AV Enabler, which is calling GetNumBattlefields(), and I highly doubt that's accurate because I actually saw it at just over 900 this morning (US time). I'm assuming the API is counting total instances running instead of just BGs. You can test it yourself with /run print(GetNumBattlefields()) and as of this moment it reports 90 on Ragnaros for me, while the website says we have a population of 1720 online.

I know they fixed that issue on Cata, but I didnt know it was still there on Wrath with the BG Instance Numbers.
Oh well.