Different kind of survey for Saturday, November 15, 2008: 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
712 avatars, 312 of them bots and campers
44% bots, overall
For sims with 5 or fewer avatars there was an average of 18% bots and campers (42 bots out of 235 avatars). For sims with more than five avatars there was an average of 57% (270 bots out of 477 avatars). The overall percentage of bots was 44%.
Some observations:
There are a lot more bots than there are campers. It'd be hard to get good numbers since some campers are bots and some bots are disguised as campers, but I'd put the number at about 85% bots to 15% campers.
The number of bots in low-occupancy sims is noticeably higher than it was just three months ago when I did my last multi-sim surveys. Small numbers of bots (fewer than a box-full) are being deployed more today than just three months ago.
I'm convinced clubs use bots but I don't have a way to determine with any certainty how many in a busy club are bots, so the number of bots is likely higher than I've stated. In this survey I found two busy clubs and a couple less-busy but active clubs, and I just had to assume they were all real, live humans, despite getting no response to my greetings and questions except from the host, and despite there being no meaningful chat. The number of club avatars in this survey is perhaps 60.
I expect the overall average for estates will be similar. Managed estates like Dreamland and Caledon surely bring down the average for low-occupancy sims, but fully-owned sims with large bot boxes are more common on estates than on the mainland.
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, 77,
1, 31, 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 (7/31=23%)
2, 37, 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 (14/74=19%)
3, 17, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 0 (8/51=16%)
4, 11, 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 (8/44=18%)
5, 7, 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 (5/35=14%)
6, 6, 4 5 0 1 0 6 (16/36=44%)
7, 7, 0 4 3 2 2 4 0 (15/49=31%)
8, 4, 5 5 6 4 (20/32=63%)
9, 5, 0 0 0 0 0 (0/45=0%)
10, 2, 10 6 (16/20=80%)
11, 0,
12, 1, 0 (0/12=0%)
13, 0,
14, 1, 9 (9/14=64%)
15, 1, 15 (15/15=100%)
16, 1, 13 (13/16=81%)
17, 3, 13 17 15 (45/51=88%)
18, 1, 12 (12/18=67%)
19, 2, 19 2 (21/38=55%)
20, 0,
21, 1, 0 (0/21=0%)
22, 1, 0 (0/22=0%)
23, 1, 23 (23/23=100%)
24, 0,
25, 0,
26, 0,
27, 0,
28, 0,
29, 0,
30, 0,
31, 1, 31 (31/31=100%)
32, 0,
33, 0,
34, 1, 34 (34/34=100%)
35, 0,
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