I repeated Saturday's bot survey, in the same set of sims, but this time overnight Sunday into Monday morning. Saturday's survey likely captured the peak concurrency, while this morning's survey likely captured the minimum.
Once again I visited 219 sims on one of the newer mainland continents (I think it's the one called Corsica?) and noted how many avatars were present in each (including the ones with no avatars) and how many were bots and campers. I made a four-sim-wide path across the continent, coast-to-coast. Once again, I noted cases where I wasn't sure whether or not an avatar was a bot so I could visit again in several hours.
The results are as follows, detailed under the cut:
219 sims
591 avatars, 308 of them bots and campers
52% bots, overall
For sims with 5 or fewer avatars there was an average of 23% bots and campers (51 bots out of 218 avatars). For sims with more than five avatars there was an average of 69% (257 bots out of 373 avatars). The overall percentage of bots was 52%.
Some observations:
There were four fewer bots, but it's not a simple matter of four bots logging off overnight. There was a completely new bot farm of 14 that came online and has since disappeared again, so there are at least eighteen, and probably twice that number, that logged off since the previous survey. I noticed some of the differences. I believe what's happening is that some people run their bots overnight and then kill them in the morning and some people run their bots during the day, but the largest number of traffic bots stay online all the time.
Data under the cut.
Data:
The first column is the number of avatars in a sim, the second column is the number of sims that had that number of avatars. The numbers following the second comma are the number of bots found in each sim with that many avatars. For example, a line that begins
1, 31,
means there were 31 sims with one avatar, and there should be 31 numbers that follow.
Following the data in parenthesis is the total number of bots, total number of avatars and percentage of bots for all sims with that many avatars.
Got it? Here's the data...
0, 90,
1, 36, 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 (12/36=33%)
2, 31, 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 (12/62=19%)
3, 18, 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (9/54=17%)
4, 9, 0 2 2 3 1 0 0 2 3 (13/36=36%)
5, 6, 0 3 0 0 1 1 (5/30=17%)
6, 8, 3 0 4 0 2 3 0 6 (18/48=38%)
7, 3, 2 7 5 (14/21=67%)
8, 1, 0 (0/8=0%)
9, 2, 6 0 (6/18=33%)
10, 0,
11, 3, 8 11 0 (19/33=58%)
12, 1, 0 (0/12=0%)
13, 2, 13 13 (26/26=100%)
14, 1, 14 (14/14=100%)
15, 0,
16, 1, 13 (13/16=81%)
17, 0,
18, 1, 0 (0/18=0%)
19, 1, 13 (13/19=68%)
20, 0,
21, 0,
22, 0,
23, 1, 23 (23/23=100%)
24, 1, 21 (21/24=88%)
25, 0,
26, 0,
27, 1, 25 (25/27=93%)
28, 0,
29, 0,
30, 0,
31, 1, 31 (31/31=100%)
32, 0,
33, 0,
34, 0,
35, 1, 34 (34/35=97%)
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