Felyndral Neighborhood Watch

[DeletedUser61]

Map Geography

To validate the Nine Near Neighbors feasibility study that's posted at
https://us.forum.elvenar.com/index.php?threads/nine-near-neighbors.1248/#post-7835,
I've been tracking the development of the us3: Felyndral world map since the world first opened, and now that 30+ days have passed we should start seeing some replacement cities.

While you're looking through the following table, and hopefully checking out these cities on the world map, please note the following items:

• missourian, with a score of 0, is the lowest ranked player. While it may be that he has logged in since 10/15/2015 it's not likely, and in any case there should be several other players, near the end of the roster, who will fall by the wayside.
• missourian does not have a city on the world map. If you visit his city, from the roster, and then click on the world icon the map will focus on your own city, or on the last world map city that you visited.
• jeremiaan, with a score of 1, is the lowest ranked player who has a positive score. ALL cities with a positive score, which is about 2/3rds of the cities, are shown on the World Map. A handful of cities that have a score of zero are also shown on the world map, perhaps because they deleted buildings that had already been built.
  
  
• Nanabarb is at the very center of the us3 map. If you go to her city, the blue arrow will indicate where your city is located on the World Map.
• Cities are added one hexagonal ring at a time, and a new ring always starts at the 1 o'clock corner. Immigrants are currently filling ring 242, and the map can thereby accommodate 44,287 cities, whereupon we'll add another ring. Each odd numbered ring contains 6 more cities than the previous odd numbered ring. (Each ring has 6 more sectors than the previous ring, but there are twice as many relic sectors as city sectors.)
• Each day I have been noting the six cities that occupy the corners of the current outermost hexagonal ring, and the cities are grouped 1 o'clock through 11 o'clock, in accordance with their position on the world map at the time of observation.
• The most recently inserted cities are near 2 0'clock.
  • Thomas66 on 11/20
  • sdcolabear on 11/21.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Location
10/15/15	0	missourian	Lowest
10/15/15	1	jeremiaah	LowMap
11/20/15	58	Thomas66	Insert
11/21/15	98	sdcolabear	Insert
10/14/15	3286	Nanabarb	Center
11/17/15	229	midvamp	1 o'clock
11/17/15	21	whitey	3 o'clock
11/17/15	773	Zaphira	5 o'clock
11/17/15	123	Queen Mab	7 o'clock
11/17/15	96	linertreat	9 o'clock
11/17/15	44	Bocoozille	11 o'clock
11/18/15	.	Corners	Same
11/19/15	.	Corners	Same
11/20/15	.	Corners	Same

The Welcome Wagon (and the Hearse)

I've been tracking the new arrivals, each day, simply by going to yesterday's corner cities and following the diagonal to the edge of the current hexagon. The indicated date is the game date at the time of observation, so our granularity is about 30 hours, depending on how long the city was in place before we noticed it.

For the first 30 days we were gaining right at 2000 ranked players per day, but once us4: Khelonaar opened we dropped to 30 immigrants per day, as expected. You may have noticed that the release of us4 was a bit rushed, because we were running out of space (server capacity) in the first three US worlds.

I've sorted the following table by diagonal, so if you search for the first city in each group, and then go outwards towards the related clock number, you'll find the rest of the listed cities in that group.

I've only listed a city if their score has been the same for more than 30 days. It may be that the owner logged in without doing anything, which would reset the timer, or that the city is sponsored by a premium account, but for the most part we're assuming that a dead city will soon be buried.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Location
10/16/15	21	Alwayspenny	1 o'clock
10/17/15	22	sapina	1 o'clock
10/18/15	0	Seventeen	1 o'clock
10/20/15	0	DarkElf2283	1 o'clock
10/16/15	21	gloriaj11	3 o'clock
10/18/15	22	harder69	3 o'clock
10/20/15	19	booklord	3 o'clock
10/18/15	93	Jeanne50	5 o'clock
10/19/15	22	sdluther	5 o'clock
10/16/15	22	Deathmaster652643	7 o'clock
10/17/15	18	Arwen of Rivendale	7 o'clock
10/18/15	0	loranjosh	7 o'clock
10/16/15	0	Beckie0927	9 o'clock
10/18/15	22	jad257	9 o'clock
10/20/15	58	Mayyyy33	9 o'clock
10/16/15	19	TRYMEOUT	11 o'clock
10/17/15	18	brownfroggie	11 o'clock
10/18/15	18	Greaboy	11 o'clock
10/19/15	40	eloramag	11 o'clock
10/20/15	18	choco00	11 o'clock

The obvious questions are:

• WHEN, and how often, will the dead cities be removed?
• HOW SOON will a new owner move in?
• DOES (should?) the availability of new immigrants influence the removal of dead cities?
• Is there any sort of clustering?
  .
• Are small, dead, premium account sponsored cities EVER archived?
• Are active, but isolated cities EVER moved toward the center of the map?
• If cities do move, do they move to a location with the same relic boosts?
  (There are only nine unique city + relics combinations.)
  .
• And, broadly, how does the neighborhood algorithm, or the lack thereof, effect game play?

Watch this space. I'll keep you posted.

 

[DeletedUser61]

Map Location	Neighbor's Name	Status
BMC Oude Rijn	Katwijk	5551 points, FairyLand
2nd ring 1 o'clock	subterfuge	2775 points
2nd ring 3 o'clock	Rinel	5427 points, Light Haven
2nd ring 5 o'clock	Marilu	7423 points, KnightOwls
2nd ring 7 o'clock	DOOMER316	9584 points, Realm of the White
2nd ring 9 o'clock	Grundall	209 points, Elven Alliance
2nd ring 11 o'clock	TherwinII (eyes)	4671 points, LoSt SoULs
4th ring 1 o'clock	Elise2	1070 points
4th ring 2 o'clock	MrGoomba	5020 points, Fair Trade
4th ring 3 o'clock	mriou	15 points
4th ring 4 o'clock	jlgood54	2552 points, NO FEAR
4th ring 5 o'clock	frmgarman	2554 points, Light Haven
4th ring 6 o'clock	CelticSkye	5848 points, Thor's Hammer
4th ring 7 o'clock	Ryka	1996 points, Light Haven
4th ring 8 o'clock	Tore Kong	612 points
4th ring 9 o'clock	jdaug07	122 points
4th ring 10 o'clock	ARDAHL	1478 points
4th ring 11 o'clock	Ombra	405 points
4th ring 12 o'clock	Lenore13	2181 points

An effective report will contain hard data about how your local neighborhood is faring. You are therefore encouraged to post a similar synopsis for your own city, and then edit it in the future as folks come and go.

If you just want to note the status of a couple of cities, then a simple list will suffice, but if you want to be comprehensive it's convenient to use the BBCode Table Generator at http://www.teamopolis.com/tools/bbcode-table-generator.aspx to create a similar table, and then save it as a cookie on your own computer. You can copy paste the generated code directly into your forum post, BUT you'll need to manually remove all of the line breaks and tabs, by pressing End or Down, followed by Deletes as needed.

 

[DeletedUser61]

The fun has begun in us3: Felyndral. We've now seen our first few hundred removals. Nanabarb's city is at the exact center of the us3 map, and as you can tell by the blue arrow, Katwijk's city is in the 1 o'clock direction. If you count the diagonal sectors, you'll find that only the even numbered rings have cities, and Katwijk's city is in about the 30th ring, which is to say that he's 15 cities toward 1 o'clock, if you start in the center of the world map and follow the arrow. You can obviously use the same technique to locate your own city on the map. I'd encourage you to do exactly that, and it would be wonderful if you were to take some notes, and perhaps share the status of your 6 + 12 nearest neighbors.

I've previously listed my 6 + 18 nearest neighbors, and I'm tracking several other cities that were at the corners of the hexagon when they first placed on the map, and will therefore be (or will be missing or replaced) on a diagonal from the center of the map.

As you can see in the following 25% zoom (Chrome Ctrl+Mousewheel) today's removals have nearly reached my ring, but nothing outbound of my city has been removed, as yet. My city is well more than a month old, so it's apparent that only part of the inactive folks have been removed, and we'll be watching to see how many more folks are removed, and how often.

From scrolling around the us3: Felyndral world map, the empty city sectors are pretty well scattered, so Last Date Active is the likely basis for removal, starting from the center of the map. I'm very much interested in whether, or not, active cities are EVER moved to the interior of the map, because otherwise we'll be entirely dependant on new arrivals to fill in the holes on the map. About 15 immigrants per day have been trickling in to us3: Felyndral.

 

[DeletedUser626]

ok, gotta ask! how do you see so many cities, on the map?
I'm ok with inactives or innogame dwarven bots as neighbors.
it's the players under 500 city score points with the main hall building for over 30 days I'd like to see replaced as soon as possible.

 

[DeletedUser61]

• I'm using Chrome, so Ctrl+ScrollWheel is a zoom, or you can use the menu zoom that's available in Chrome and also in other major browsers. Zooming is not actually very useful, because you can't read anything and it messes up your city screens as well. You're zooming everything that's in that particular browser tab.
• I actually hate the idea of allowing bots as neighbors, because that approach just papers over a major structural problem and delays the implementation of a real solution. Isolated cities need to shift toward the center of the map.
• The actual criteria is inactive for 30+ days, UNLESS the city is sponsored by a premium account or has reached the end of Chapter III.
• There's a lot more detail over at https://us.forum.elvenar.com/index.php?threads/nine-near-neighbors.1248/#post-7835, Map consolidation is fundamentally important topic, but it's very very messy.

I have no way of knowing how recently somebody logged on, other than noticing when their scores change, but I'm expecting the following cities to get zapped within a few days.

• Ring 72, 1 o'clock Navaeh
• Ring 76, 1 o'clock fcaler

I'm also watching the vacant cities to determine if they're merely filled with new immigrants, we're getting about 15 immigrants per day, OR if isolated cities ever be shifted to what would hopefully be a better location nearer the center of the map. Note that it will be several days until the pruning reaches the edge of the map hexagon, which is what will isolate some active cities, but Shizuka's city in Ring 242 between 5 o'clock and 6 o'clock is the city to watch. If immigrants are being used to fill up the vacant cities, then Shizuka's city has been hung out to dry.

The following table starts with Nanabarb's city, which is at the exact center of the us3: Felyndral map, and then follows the 1 o'clock diagonal for the first 80 rings. You'll note that a handful of the cities are vacant at the moment, and tracking exactly what happens to those cities, and how soon, is the point of this exercise.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Ring	Location	Status
10/16/15	3286	Nanabarb	Ring 000	Center
10/16/15	4904	Danteeria	Ring 002	1 o'clock
10/16/15	1948	StephanieMF	Ring 004	1 o'clock
10/16/15	6177	Brother	Ring 006	1 o'clock
10/16/15	3079	scubafiend	Ring 008	1 o'clock
10/16/15	114	meli154	Ring 010	1 o'clock
10/16/15	.	vacant	Ring 012	1 o'clock
10/16/15	.	vacant	Ring 014	1 o'clock
10/16/15	.	vacant	Ring 016	1 o'clock
10/16/15	983	DawnsLove	Ring 018	1 o'clock
10/16/15	7178	Dougal	Ring 020	1 o'clock
10/16/15	.	vacant	Ring 022	1 o'clock
10/16/15	122	jdaug07	Ring 024	1 o'clock	near Katwijk
10/16/15	1955	ARDAHL	Ring 026	1 o'clock	near Katwijk
10/16/15	405	Ombra	Ring 028	1 o'clock	near Katwijk
10/16/15	2133	TarlonEvil	Ring 030	1 o'clock
10/16/15	232	iluvhim	Ring 032	1 o'clock
10/16/15	3595	Maigold	Ring 034	1 o'clock
10/16/15	100	DebbieG	Ring 036	1 o'clock
10/16/15	1862	mrgrc	Ring 038	1 o'clock
10/16/15	4898	goblin	Ring 040	1 o'clock
10/16/15	1330	Evia	Ring 042	1 o'clock
10/16/15	5012	babybugama	Ring 044	1 o'clock
10/16/15	1333	owlsandchickens	Ring 046	1 o'clock
10/16/15	565	Ravnfyr	Ring 048	1 o'clock
10/16/15	413	CyberWarlock	Ring 050	1 o'clock
10/16/15	2614	Palerose	Ring 052	1 o'clock
10/16/15	3957	HillBilly420	Ring 054	1 o'clock
10/16/15	123	Mymidnight	Ring 056	1 o'clock
10/16/15	112	Angel Fire	Ring 058	1 o'clock
10/16/15	40	Sylvanas	Ring 060	1 o'clock
10/16/15	470	Precious Pup	Ring 062	1 o'clock
10/16/15	516	skywatcher	Ring 064	1 o'clock
10/16/15	800	Milutave	Ring 066	1 o'clock
10/16/15	395	stormalong101	Ring 068	1 o'clock
10/16/15	155	gattling3652	Ring 070	1 o'clock
10/16/15	0	Navaeh	Ring 072	1 o'clock
10/16/15	113	tdrake0809	Ring 074	1 o'clock
10/16/15	0	fcaler	Ring 076	1 o'clock
10/16/15	181	MrBrown	Ring 078	1 o'clock
10/16/15	271	wolfwalker	Ring 080	1 o'clock

 

[DeletedUser43]

This is amazing information. Well done Kat. I am most interested in the part where in the beginning Felandryl was getting 2000 new players a day and now it is down to 20. I would guess that most of the new players in the beginning came from the pool of players that were already here, on Arendyll and Winyandor. I am very curious as to how many new players this game over all is getting and how many are staying. The game is even slower now for the new players than it was for us when we were new. I surmise that this is going to harm retention, but I wonder if there is a way to find out for sure.

I have some overall questions....are the changes to the game because they are making so much money from players and they think they have more to get, or are they desperate and thinking that more of the mind numbing boredom will get someone, anyone, to spend some money on this game. It would help us all going forward to have a good idea of how they are thinking so we know what to expect. More stuff being taken away in an effort to force us to spend money? Or more stuff being given to us because they are doing well and they have enough players to support the game getting bigger?

I also read this thing recently about how Adobe is not even pushing Flash any more because it is so vulnerable to security issues. When even Adobe is pushing Html 5, that is a bad sign for Flash based games. I worry about our future here.

 

[DeletedUser61]

1. It's pretty easy to track the bottom entry in the Rank Roster, for each world every week or so. When the roster gets to about 75,000 we're apparently maxing out a server, which is probably why there was such a rush on opening us4. We pretty much maxed out us3 in less than a month.
2. The important metric is actually the number of concurrent active sessions, but that's closely held information that InnoGames' competition would LOVE to get their hands on, so we have to use secondary indicators. The 75th percentile score is what I use to judge how well a world is doing.
3. City Builders have always been a orphan genre. My "hope" is that InnoGames will take the mechanics from FoE, without the PvP elements and, by providing an intriguing product, will be able to breath new life into the City Builder genre which hasn't really hasn't had a successful new title for 10 years. City Builders have traditionally been very cerebral, pretty much the exact opposite of an arcade game.
4. InnoGames probably doesn't KNOW exactly what will be successful, although "cities that thrive on their own" is obviously a core concept. My sense is that Elvenar is growing MUCH faster than the developers anticipated. That's a nice problem to have, but it's still a problem.
   .
5. InnoGames is a privately held firm that is funded, in large part, by http://www.eightroads.com/.

   As a private investment firm with permanent capital, we can invest with a long time horizon.
   This supports our focus on innovative and ambitious businesses looking to disrupt or lead their chosen markets.

6. I have an MBA, and some considerable experience with project management, and I'm absolutely certain that InnoGames has a development plan for Elvenar, and that much of what "doesn't make sense to us" is driven by an aggressive strategy to disrupt and capture the City Builder market before the competition can get their feet untangled.
   .
7. Take a look at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/adobe-phasing-out-flash_565de8cde4b072e9d1c37767. I'm not at all worried about the transition from Flash to HTML5 based products such as Adobe Animate CC. The development platform is system agnostic, and whether the underlying compiled code is proprietary Flash, or legitimate HTML, or some mix thereof, shouldn't make much difference to the end users.
8. Take a look at http://www.cio.com/article/2376661/internet/how-adobe-is-moving-on-from-flash-to-embrace-html5.html, from a couple of years ago. This transition has been a long time coming, for at least 10 years, and Adobe isn't going to leave their user base out in the cold.

 

[DeletedUser61]

The populated hexagon has 242 rings, so the world map can thereby accommodate 44287 cities.
Roster page 5127 has the first positive score at rank 41009 of 60711 which is percentile 32.45.

• We have 407 fewer ranked players today
• There are no new vacant cities on the 1 o'clock radial that I'm monitoring
• MichelleLynn moved in to the previously vacant city sector at Ring 012, 1 o'clock

While it's obvious that the outer rings can accommodate more cities, the progression is not intuitive.

• Each odd numbered ring will have 6 more relic sectors that the previous ring
• Each even numbered ring will have 6 more relic sectors than the previous ring,
  PLUS 6 more cities than the previous even ring.
• If you do a bit of tricky math, and realize that a hexagon contains 6 equilateral triangles,
  it follows that the even numbered rings will contain (6/2 times the ring number) city sectors.
  • Ring 004 will therefore accommodate 3 * 4 = 12 cities.
  • Ring 242 will therefore accommodate 3 * 242 = 726 cities

 

[DeletedUser]

Your hands/heart symbol is mocking me... Probably. Doesn't reflect who you are... inside.

 

[DeletedUser61]

Love is more important than money.
Me, I'm fortunate. I love money.

And I do enjoy City Builders, because they're complex enough to be interesting.

 

[DeletedUser61]

On the 1 o'clock radial that I am monitoring, 6 cities have been vacated over the past 3 days, and half of the vacancies have already been filled.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Radial	Ring	Status
10/16/15	3286	Nanabarb	0 o'clock	Ring 000
10/16/15	4904	Danteeria	1 o'clock	Ring 002
10/16/15	1948	StephanieMF	1 o'clock	Ring 004
10/16/15	6177	Brother	1 o'clock	Ring 006
10/16/15	3079	scubafiend	1 o'clock	Ring 008
10/16/15	114	meli154	1 o'clock	Ring 010
12/3/15	.	MichelleLynn	1 o'clock	Ring 012	was vacant
12/3/15	.	Bhettie	1 o'clock	Ring 014	was vacant
12/4/15	.	DixieK	1 o'clock	Ring 016	was vacant
12/4/15	983	DawnsLove	1 o'clock	Ring 018
10/16/15	7178	Dougal	1 o'clock	Ring 020
10/16/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 022	not known
10/16/15	122	jdaug07	1 o'clock	Ring 024	near Katwijk
10/16/15	1955	ARDAHL	1 o'clock	Ring 026	near Katwijk
10/16/15	405	Ombra	1 o'clock	Ring 028	near Katwijk
10/16/15	2133	TarlonEvil	1 o'clock	Ring 030
10/16/15	232	iluvhim	1 o'clock	Ring 032
10/16/15	3595	Maigold	1 o'clock	Ring 034
10/16/15	100	DebbieG	1 o'clock	Ring 036
10/16/15	1862	mrgrc	1 o'clock	Ring 038
10/16/15	4898	goblin	1 o'clock	Ring 040
10/16/15	1330	Evia	1 o'clock	Ring 042
10/16/15	5012	babybugama	1 o'clock	Ring 044
10/16/15	1333	owlsandchickens	1 o'clock	Ring 046
10/16/15	565	Ravnfyr	1 o'clock	Ring 048
10/16/15	413	CyberWarlock	1 o'clock	Ring 050
10/16/15	2614	Palerose	1 o'clock	Ring 052
10/16/15	3957	HillBilly420	1 o'clock	Ring 054
10/16/15	123	Mymidnight	1 o'clock	Ring 056
12/4/15	112	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 058	was Angel Fire
12/4/15	40	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 060	was Sylvanas
10/16/15	470	Precious Pup	1 o'clock	Ring 062
10/16/15	516	skywatcher	1 o'clock	Ring 064
10/16/15	800	Milutave	1 o'clock	Ring 066
10/16/15	395	stormalong101	1 o'clock	Ring 068
10/16/15	155	gattling3652	1 o'clock	Ring 070
10/16/15	0	Navaeh	1 o'clock	Ring 072
10/16/15	113	tdrake0809	1 o'clock	Ring 074
10/16/15	0	fcaler	1 o'clock	Ring 076
10/16/15	181	MrBrown	1 o'clock	Ring 078
10/16/15	271	wolfwalker	1 o'clock	Ring 080
10/16/15	22	magehum7	1 o'clock	Ring 082
10/16/15	21	Alwayspenny	1 o'clock	Ring 084

• Roster page 5091 has the first positive score at rank 40728 of 60319, which is percentile 32.48, considering the entire global roster.
• Roster page 1273 includes a city with a score of 241 which is the 75th percentile of the positive scored cities on the us3: Felyndral world map.
• The populated hexagon has 242 rings, so the world map can thereby accommodate 44287 cities. All of the positive score cities, plus a few of the zero score cities (that already have residences), are shown on the world map.

 

[DeletedUser626]

• I'm using Chrome, so Ctrl+ScrollWheel is a zoom, or you can use the menu zoom that's available in Chrome and also in other major browsers. Zooming is not actually very useful, because you can't read anything and it messes up your city screens as well. You're zooming everything that's in that particular browser tab.
• I actually hate the idea of allowing bots as neighbors, because that approach just papers over a major structural problem and delays the implementation of a real solution. Isolated cities need to shift toward the center of the map.
• The actual criteria is inactive for 30+ days, UNLESS the city is sponsored by a premium account or has reached the end of Chapter III.
• There's a lot more detail over at https://us.forum.elvenar.com/index.php?threads/nine-near-neighbors.1248/#post-7835, Map consolidation is fundamentally important topic, but it's very very messy.

neat, thanks for the tip on wheel zoom

as for hating the idea of allowing bots as neighbors, in favor of moving isolated cities toward the center of the map.

sure i'd luv to see all the active players be giving an opportunity to get the same resource (coin/trades) players toward the center of the map have, I just don't see that happening in the next 12 months.

I think dwarven bots are an option for those on the map edge, and those with cities stuck with main hall building for over 30+ days.

 

[DeletedUser61]

On the 1 o'clock radial that I'm monitoring, we have 1 new immigrant, in Ring 22, and 3 cities were vacated. Significantly, the vacated cites were in Rings 24, 28, & 32 which is CLOSER to the center of the map than yesterday's vacancies in Rings 58 & 60.

The implication is that these three players returned for a second session, but not a third session. This is actually VERY important because, as time goes one, the vacated cities will trend toward onesies and twosies that are sprinkled around the map, in which case the occasional vacant city will be a minor nuisance that won't have much impact on your buffing rotations.

Note that Shizuka is at the END of the current spiral, at about 5:30 in Ring 242. We don't know yet if Shizuka will EVER get any more neighbors, but for sure it will be a long, long time. The critical question is if Shizuka will EVER be moved toward the center of the map, and we won't know the answer to that question until some of Shizuka's neighbors start to age out.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Radial	Ring	Status
10/16/15	3286	Nanabarb	0 o'clock	Ring 000
10/16/15	4904	Danteeria	1 o'clock	Ring 002
10/16/15	1948	StephanieMF	1 o'clock	Ring 004
10/16/15	6177	Brother	1 o'clock	Ring 006
10/16/15	3079	scubafiend	1 o'clock	Ring 008
10/16/15	114	meli154	1 o'clock	Ring 010
12/3/15	179	MichelleLynn	1 o'clock	Ring 012	was vacant
12/3/15	275	Bhettie	1 o'clock	Ring 014	was vacant
12/4/15	77	DixieK	1 o'clock	Ring 016	was vacant
12/4/15	983	DawnsLove	1 o'clock	Ring 018
10/16/15	7178	Dougal	1 o'clock	Ring 020
12/5/15	117	steelers	1 o'clock	Ring 022	was vacant
12/5/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 024	was jdaug07
10/16/15	1955	ARDAHL	1 o'clock	Ring 026	near Katwijk
12/5/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 028	was Ombra
10/16/15	2133	TarlonEvil	1 o'clock	Ring 030
12/5/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 032	was iluvhim
10/16/15	3595	Maigold	1 o'clock	Ring 034
10/16/15	100	DebbieG	1 o'clock	Ring 036
10/16/15	1862	mrgrc	1 o'clock	Ring 038
10/16/15	4898	goblin	1 o'clock	Ring 040
10/16/15	1330	Evia	1 o'clock	Ring 042
10/16/15	5012	babybugama	1 o'clock	Ring 044
10/16/15	1333	owlsandchickens	1 o'clock	Ring 046
10/16/15	565	Ravnfyr	1 o'clock	Ring 048
10/16/15	413	CyberWarlock	1 o'clock	Ring 050
10/16/15	2614	Palerose	1 o'clock	Ring 052
10/16/15	3957	HillBilly420	1 o'clock	Ring 054
10/16/15	123	Mymidnight	1 o'clock	Ring 056
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 058	was Angel Fire
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 060	was Sylvanas
10/16/15	470	Precious Pup	1 o'clock	Ring 062
10/16/15	516	skywatcher	1 o'clock	Ring 064
10/16/15	800	Milutave	1 o'clock	Ring 066
10/16/15	395	stormalong101	1 o'clock	Ring 068
10/16/15	155	gattling3652	1 o'clock	Ring 070
10/16/15	0	Navaeh	1 o'clock	Ring 072
10/16/15	113	tdrake0809	1 o'clock	Ring 074
10/16/15	0	fcaler	1 o'clock	Ring 076
10/16/15	181	MrBrown	1 o'clock	Ring 078
10/16/15	271	wolfwalker	1 o'clock	Ring 080
10/16/15	22	magehum7	1 o'clock	Ring 082
10/16/15	21	Alwayspenny	1 o'clock	Ring 084

• Roster page 5059 has the first positive score at rank 40472 of 59914 which is percentile 32.45, considering the entire global roster.
• Roster page 1265 includes a city with a score of 246 which is the 75th percentile of the positive scored cities on the us3: Felyndral world map.
• The populated hexagon has 242 rings, so the world map can thereby accommodate 44287 cities. All of the positive score cities, plus a few of the zero score cities (that already have residences), are shown on the world map.

 

[DeletedUser61]

Ring 24 is now occupied, 4 vacancies were carried over, and 2 more vacancies were created in Ring 70 and Ring 72.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Radial	Ring	Status
10/16/15	3286	Nanabarb	0 o'clock	Ring 000
10/16/15	4904	Danteeria	1 o'clock	Ring 002
10/16/15	1948	StephanieMF	1 o'clock	Ring 004
10/16/15	6177	Brother	1 o'clock	Ring 006
10/16/15	3079	scubafiend	1 o'clock	Ring 008
10/16/15	114	meli154	1 o'clock	Ring 010
12/3/15	179	MichelleLynn	1 o'clock	Ring 012	was vacant
12/3/15	275	Bhettie	1 o'clock	Ring 014	was vacant
12/4/15	77	DixieK	1 o'clock	Ring 016	was vacant
12/4/15	983	DawnsLove	1 o'clock	Ring 018
10/16/15	7178	Dougal	1 o'clock	Ring 020
12/5/15	117	steelers	1 o'clock	Ring 022	was vacant
12/6/15	42	Nemesis7	1 o'clock	Ring 024	was jdaug07
10/16/15	1955	ARDAHL	1 o'clock	Ring 026	near Katwijk
12/5/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 028	was Ombra
10/16/15	2133	TarlonEvil	1 o'clock	Ring 030
12/5/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 032	was iluvhim
10/16/15	3595	Maigold	1 o'clock	Ring 034
10/16/15	100	DebbieG	1 o'clock	Ring 036
10/16/15	1862	mrgrc	1 o'clock	Ring 038
10/16/15	4898	goblin	1 o'clock	Ring 040
10/16/15	1330	Evia	1 o'clock	Ring 042
10/16/15	5012	babybugama	1 o'clock	Ring 044
10/16/15	1333	owlsandchickens	1 o'clock	Ring 046
10/16/15	565	Ravnfyr	1 o'clock	Ring 048
10/16/15	413	CyberWarlock	1 o'clock	Ring 050
10/16/15	2614	Palerose	1 o'clock	Ring 052
10/16/15	3957	HillBilly420	1 o'clock	Ring 054
10/16/15	123	Mymidnight	1 o'clock	Ring 056
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 058	was Angel Fire
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 060	was Sylvanas
10/16/15	470	Precious Pup	1 o'clock	Ring 062
10/16/15	516	skywatcher	1 o'clock	Ring 064
10/16/15	800	Milutave	1 o'clock	Ring 066
10/16/15	395	stormalong101	1 o'clock	Ring 068
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 070	was gattling2652
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 072	was Naveah
10/16/15	113	tdrake0809	1 o'clock	Ring 074
10/16/15	0	fcaler	1 o'clock	Ring 076
10/16/15	181	MrBrown	1 o'clock	Ring 078
10/16/15	271	wolfwalker	1 o'clock	Ring 080
10/16/15	22	magehum7	1 o'clock	Ring 082
10/16/15	21	Alwayspenny	1 o'clock	Ring 084

• Roster page 5024 has the first positive score at rank 40188 of 59508 which is percentile 32.47, considering the entire global roster.
• Roster page 1256 includes a city with a score of 251 which is the 75th percentile of the positive scored cities on the us3: Felyndral world map.
• The populated hexagon has 242 rings, so the world map can thereby accommodate 44287 cities.
• Shizuka is at the end of the current hexagonal spiral, near the 5:30 radial.

 

[DeletedUser61]

There were no new immigrants today, on our monitored radial, 6 vacancies were carried over, and 2 more sectors were vacated at Ring 74 & 76.
Our population has been dropping right at 500 per day, so it's becoming apparent that there's a GLOBAL limit of 500 or so removals, and that the earlier throttling was merely because fewer than 500 cities had aged out.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Radial	Ring	Status
10/16/15	3286	Nanabarb	0 o'clock	Ring 000
10/16/15	4904	Danteeria	1 o'clock	Ring 002
10/16/15	1948	StephanieMF	1 o'clock	Ring 004
10/16/15	6177	Brother	1 o'clock	Ring 006
10/16/15	3079	scubafiend	1 o'clock	Ring 008
10/16/15	114	meli154	1 o'clock	Ring 010
12/3/15	179	MichelleLynn	1 o'clock	Ring 012	was vacant
12/3/15	275	Bhettie	1 o'clock	Ring 014	was vacant
12/4/15	77	DixieK	1 o'clock	Ring 016	was vacant
12/4/15	983	DawnsLove	1 o'clock	Ring 018
10/16/15	7178	Dougal	1 o'clock	Ring 020
12/5/15	117	steelers	1 o'clock	Ring 022	was vacant
12/6/15	42	Nemesis7	1 o'clock	Ring 024	was jdaug07
10/16/15	1955	ARDAHL	1 o'clock	Ring 026	near Katwijk
12/5/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 028	was Ombra
10/16/15	2133	TarlonEvil	1 o'clock	Ring 030
12/5/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 032	was iluvhim
10/16/15	3595	Maigold	1 o'clock	Ring 034
10/16/15	100	DebbieG	1 o'clock	Ring 036
10/16/15	1862	mrgrc	1 o'clock	Ring 038
10/16/15	4898	goblin	1 o'clock	Ring 040
10/16/15	1330	Evia	1 o'clock	Ring 042
10/16/15	5012	babybugama	1 o'clock	Ring 044
10/16/15	1333	owlsandchickens	1 o'clock	Ring 046
10/16/15	565	Ravnfyr	1 o'clock	Ring 048
10/16/15	413	CyberWarlock	1 o'clock	Ring 050
10/16/15	2614	Palerose	1 o'clock	Ring 052
10/16/15	3957	HillBilly420	1 o'clock	Ring 054
10/16/15	123	Mymidnight	1 o'clock	Ring 056
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 058	was Angel Fire
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 060	was Sylvanas
10/16/15	470	Precious Pup	1 o'clock	Ring 062
10/16/15	516	skywatcher	1 o'clock	Ring 064
10/16/15	800	Milutave	1 o'clock	Ring 066
10/16/15	395	stormalong101	1 o'clock	Ring 068
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 070	was gattling2652
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 072	was Naveah
12/7/15	113	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 074	was tdrake0809
12/7/15	0	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 076	was fcaler
10/16/15	181	MrBrown	1 o'clock	Ring 078
10/16/15	271	wolfwalker	1 o'clock	Ring 080
10/16/15	22	magehum7	1 o'clock	Ring 082
10/16/15	21	Alwayspenny	1 o'clock	Ring 084
	.

• Roster page 4989 has the first positive score at rank 39910 of 59082 which is percentile 32.45, considering the entire global roster.
• Roster page 1247 includes a city with a score of 256 which is the 75th percentile of the positive scored cities on the us3: Felyndral world map.
• The populated hexagon has 242 rings, so the world map can thereby accommodate 44287 cities. Shizuka is at the end of the current hexagonal spiral, near the 5:30 radial.

 

[DeletedUser61]

We had one new immigrant today, in Ring 28, 7 vacancies were carried over, but there are no new vacancies.
Note that the outer rings contain more cities, so our 1 o'clock radial will be a smaller and smaller % sample size.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Radial	Ring	Status
10/16/15	3286	Nanabarb	0 o'clock	Ring 000
10/16/15	4904	Danteeria	1 o'clock	Ring 002
10/16/15	1948	StephanieMF	1 o'clock	Ring 004
10/16/15	6177	Brother	1 o'clock	Ring 006
10/16/15	3079	scubafiend	1 o'clock	Ring 008
10/16/15	114	meli154	1 o'clock	Ring 010
12/3/15	179	MichelleLynn	1 o'clock	Ring 012	was vacant
12/3/15	275	Bhettie	1 o'clock	Ring 014	was vacant
12/4/15	77	DixieK	1 o'clock	Ring 016	was vacant
12/4/15	983	DawnsLove	1 o'clock	Ring 018
10/16/15	7178	Dougal	1 o'clock	Ring 020
12/5/15	117	steelers	1 o'clock	Ring 022	was vacant
12/6/15	42	Nemesis7	1 o'clock	Ring 024	was jdaug07
10/16/15	1955	ARDAHL	1 o'clock	Ring 026	near Katwijk
12/8/15	133	Apheleia	1 o'clock	Ring 028	was Ombra
10/16/15	2133	TarlonEvil	1 o'clock	Ring 030
12/5/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 032	was iluvhim
10/16/15	3595	Maigold	1 o'clock	Ring 034
10/16/15	100	DebbieG	1 o'clock	Ring 036
10/16/15	1862	mrgrc	1 o'clock	Ring 038
10/16/15	4898	goblin	1 o'clock	Ring 040
10/16/15	1330	Evia	1 o'clock	Ring 042
10/16/15	5012	babybugama	1 o'clock	Ring 044
10/16/15	1333	owlsandchickens	1 o'clock	Ring 046
10/16/15	565	Ravnfyr	1 o'clock	Ring 048
10/16/15	413	CyberWarlock	1 o'clock	Ring 050
10/16/15	2614	Palerose	1 o'clock	Ring 052
10/16/15	3957	HillBilly420	1 o'clock	Ring 054
10/16/15	123	Mymidnight	1 o'clock	Ring 056
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 058	was Angel Fire
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 060	was Sylvanas
10/16/15	470	Precious Pup	1 o'clock	Ring 062
10/16/15	516	skywatcher	1 o'clock	Ring 064
10/16/15	800	Milutave	1 o'clock	Ring 066
10/16/15	395	stormalong101	1 o'clock	Ring 068
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 070	was gattling2652
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 072	was Naveah
12/7/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 074	was tdrake0809
12/7/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 076	was fcaler
10/16/15	181	MrBrown	1 o'clock	Ring 078
10/16/15	271	wolfwalker	1 o'clock	Ring 080
10/16/15	22	magehum7	1 o'clock	Ring 082
10/16/15	21	Alwayspenny	1 o'clock	Ring 084
	.

• Roster page 4952 has the first positive score at rank 39612 of 58663 which is percentile 32.48, considering the entire global roster.
• Roster page 1238 includes a city with a score of 262 which is the 75th percentile of the positive scored cities on the us3: Felyndral world map.
• The populated hexagon has 242 rings, so the world map can thereby accommodate 44287 cities. Shizuka is at the end of the current hexagonal spiral, near the 5:30 radial.

 

[DeletedUser61]

We had a new immigrant in Ring 32, 6 vacancies were carried forward, and the cities in Rings 82 & 84 were vacated.
There's nothing interesting in the middle of the map, so we've moved our reporting sample further out toward the edge of the map.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Radial	Ring	Status
12/6/15	42	Nemesis7	1 o'clock	Ring 024	was jdaug07
10/16/15	1955	ARDAHL	1 o'clock	Ring 026	near Katwijk
12/8/15	133	Apheleia	1 o'clock	Ring 028	was Ombra
10/16/15	2133	TarlonEvil	1 o'clock	Ring 030
12/9/15	319	myst1956	1 o'clock	Ring 032	was iluvhim
10/16/15	3595	Maigold	1 o'clock	Ring 034
10/16/15	100	DebbieG	1 o'clock	Ring 036
10/16/15	1862	mrgrc	1 o'clock	Ring 038
10/16/15	4898	goblin	1 o'clock	Ring 040
10/16/15	1330	Evia	1 o'clock	Ring 042
10/16/15	5012	babybugama	1 o'clock	Ring 044
10/16/15	1333	owlsandchickens	1 o'clock	Ring 046
10/16/15	565	Ravnfyr	1 o'clock	Ring 048
10/16/15	413	CyberWarlock	1 o'clock	Ring 050
10/16/15	2614	Palerose	1 o'clock	Ring 052
10/16/15	3957	HillBilly420	1 o'clock	Ring 054
10/16/15	123	Mymidnight	1 o'clock	Ring 056
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 058	was Angel Fire
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 060	was Sylvanas
10/16/15	470	Precious Pup	1 o'clock	Ring 062
10/16/15	516	skywatcher	1 o'clock	Ring 064
10/16/15	800	Milutave	1 o'clock	Ring 066
10/16/15	395	stormalong101	1 o'clock	Ring 068
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 070	was gattling2652
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 072	was Naveah
12/7/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 074	was tdrake0809
12/7/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 076	was fcaler
10/16/15	181	MrBrown	1 o'clock	Ring 078
10/16/15	271	wolfwalker	1 o'clock	Ring 080
12/9/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 082	was magehum7
12/9/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 084	was Alwayspenny
10/17/15	135	Tiny Dragon	1 o'clock	Ring 086
10/17/15	99	eggman123	1 o'clock	Ring 088
10/17/15	3183	danilizkaz3	1 o'clock	Ring 090
10/17/15	22	sapina	1 o'clock	Ring 092
10/18/15	115	Tractions	1 o'clock	Ring 094
10/18/15	21	bobbytarheel	1 o'clock	Ring 096
10/18/15	15	Longfellow2469	1 o'clock	Ring 098
10/18/15	2490	Fingulias the Just	1 o'clock	Ring 100
10/18/15	21	vladcain	1 o'clock	Ring 102
10/18/15	18	Defience	1 o'clock	Ring 104
10/18/15	0	Seventeen	1 o'clock	Ring 106
10/18/15	15	just me 1	1 o'clock	Ring 108
10/19/15	3708	cindian	1 o'clock	Ring 110

• Roster page 4916 has the first positive score at rank 39322 of 58238 which is percentile 32.48, considering the entire global roster.
• Roster page 1229 includes a city with a score of 270 which is the 75th percentile of the positive scored cities on the us3: Felyndral world map.
• The populated hexagon has 242 rings, so the world map can thereby accommodate 44287 cities. Shizuka is at the end of the current hexagonal spiral, near the 5:30 radial.

 

[DeletedUser1367]

It seems "The Purge" has moved further out in the map... namely, to my neck of the woods.

At first, I thought it was a glitch or something -- I noticed empty grassy fields where a couple of my discovered neighbors used to be... and that's when I found this thread.

Since Monday afternoon, I've now lost 9 discovered neighbors around me, and I anticipate at least another 4-6 will be gone within a week or so, judging by their scores and lack of buildings.

While in limbo between non-players being removed and new players arriving, though, I will be losing tens of thousands of coins every 24 hours (just shy of 1/3 of my total discovered neighbors are gone at this point)... and since it seems that our server isn't gaining players as fast as the purge is propagating, it will probably be quite some time before I see any new neighbors moving in to my area of the map, to replace those I've lost.

(UPDATE: as of today (Thursday), another 6 discovered neighbors have been removed from my known area of the server... bringing my current total of 30 neighbors that I was visiting daily down to 15, with another 2 or 3 on the fringe of my discovered area possibly yet to be removed. Ouch... 1/2 of my daily visitation income has vanished.)

 

[DeletedUser61]

Throw your support behind https://us.forum.elvenar.com/index.php?threads/nine-near-neighbors.1248/

I think that active cities with fewer than Nine Near Neighbors should have the first crack at moving toward the center of the map when a city sector is vacated.

 

[DeletedUser61]

There were no new immigrants today, 8 vacancies were carried forward, and there's one new vacancy in Ring 86.

Since	Score	Name (us3)	Radial	Ring	Status
12/6/15	42	Nemesis7	1 o'clock	Ring 024	was jdaug07
10/16/15	1955	ARDAHL	1 o'clock	Ring 026	near Katwijk
12/8/15	133	Apheleia	1 o'clock	Ring 028	was Ombra
10/16/15	2133	TarlonEvil	1 o'clock	Ring 030
12/9/15	319	myst1956	1 o'clock	Ring 032	was iluvhim
10/16/15	3595	Maigold	1 o'clock	Ring 034
10/16/15	100	DebbieG	1 o'clock	Ring 036
10/16/15	1862	mrgrc	1 o'clock	Ring 038
10/16/15	4898	goblin	1 o'clock	Ring 040
10/16/15	1330	Evia	1 o'clock	Ring 042
10/16/15	5012	babybugama	1 o'clock	Ring 044
10/16/15	1333	owlsandchickens	1 o'clock	Ring 046
10/16/15	565	Ravnfyr	1 o'clock	Ring 048
10/16/15	413	CyberWarlock	1 o'clock	Ring 050
10/16/15	2614	Palerose	1 o'clock	Ring 052
10/16/15	3957	HillBilly420	1 o'clock	Ring 054
10/16/15	123	Mymidnight	1 o'clock	Ring 056
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 058	was Angel Fire
12/4/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 060	was Sylvanas
10/16/15	470	Precious Pup	1 o'clock	Ring 062
10/16/15	516	skywatcher	1 o'clock	Ring 064
10/16/15	800	Milutave	1 o'clock	Ring 066
10/16/15	395	stormalong101	1 o'clock	Ring 068
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 070	was gattling2652
12/6/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 072	was Naveah
12/7/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 074	was tdrake0809
12/7/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 076	was fcaler
10/16/15	181	MrBrown	1 o'clock	Ring 078
10/16/15	271	wolfwalker	1 o'clock	Ring 080
12/9/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 082	was magehum7
12/9/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 084	was Alwayspenny
12/10/15	.	vacant	1 o'clock	Ring 086	was Tiny Dragon
10/17/15	99	eggman123	1 o'clock	Ring 088
10/17/15	3183	danilizkaz3	1 o'clock	Ring 090
10/17/15	22	sapina	1 o'clock	Ring 092
10/18/15	115	Tractions	1 o'clock	Ring 094
10/18/15	21	bobbytarheel	1 o'clock	Ring 096
10/18/15	15	Longfellow2469	1 o'clock	Ring 098
10/18/15	2490	Fingulias the Just	1 o'clock	Ring 100
10/18/15	21	vladcain	1 o'clock	Ring 102
10/18/15	18	Defience	1 o'clock	Ring 104
10/18/15	0	Seventeen	1 o'clock	Ring 106
10/18/15	15	just me 1	1 o'clock	Ring 108	`
10/19/15	3708	cindian	1 o'clock	Ring 110

• Roster page 4886 has the first positive score at rank 39081 of 57832 which is percentile 32.42, considering the entire global roster.
• Roster page 1222 includes a city with a score of 274 which is the 75th percentile of the positive scored cities on the us3: Felyndral world map.
• The populated hexagon has 242 rings, so the world map can thereby accommodate 44287 cities.
• Shizuka is at the end of the current hexagonal spiral, near the 5:30 radial.