Number of active FAF accounts

[PsychoBoB]

Now there are 5000+ Player in the Leaderboard! Nice to see BUT, how many of them are really active? Is there a way to delete accounts just from the leaderboard (not from the server) which are not in use for e.g. 6 month?

[Cerberus]

I agree, It would be nice to see where I stand, without having to factor in the 1000 or so people who lacked the patience to give FA what it deserved.

[Adraius]

Agreed. Right now I can trick myself into thinking I'm in the top 10% or so after a couple weeks of playing, but that's including the couple thousand people who played half a dozen games then left. =P Also, it would be nice to get a vague read on the actual size of the FAF population.

[Softly]

Can I just bump this thread?

An active player count or a system that removed inactive players from the leaderboard (to be reinstated on playing a game) would be very useful.

[Kryo]

I did suggest a button who hides alle players inactive for more than 4 weeks some time ago.

I would like that

[Raging_Squirrel]

It is not that simple as you think.

If leaderboard would display players who had not played in a while, it would be some heavy query to the db.
Now, imagine that almost every player visits the leaderboard page at least once per day, and the majority checks it pretty often. It would cause very heavy load on the server.

Yes, there are ways to optimize it, and it could be done so it runs very smoothly.
BUT! It needs time, and I don't have that much anymore. And I will need to take a break after replay vault is done, there are some other things for me to do.

After that, it might happen that you get improved leaderboards, unit database and etc. Can't say anything about the time though.

[PsychoBoB]

Thanks for the info. Maybe you can do this query once and tell us just the result? (Only the number of active accounts in the last e.g. 3 month)

[Ze_PilOt]

That requires some work, and there are more important things to do for now.