12 Days of Whiskey Quest Stats
by trace
Happy holidays, everyone! This latest song-about-Christmas-based quest set had a goal counter and promise of bonus XP appear on the front page, so it looks like we're dealing with a community quest here. I can fling about some actual stats based on our progress thus far, now that all the quests are unlocked and we've achieved success! Here's the final graph: 12 Days of Whiskey Final Progress Th...
Happy holidays, everyone! This latest song-about-Christmas-based quest set had a goal counter and promise of bonus XP appear on the front page, so it looks like we're dealing with a community quest here. I can fling about some actual stats based on our progress thus far, now that all the quests are unlocked and we've achieved success!
Here's the final graph:
12 Days of Whiskey Final Progress The yellow bar at the top is the 2,000 user goal, the red line is the pace we needed to exceed to succeed once we were capable of completing this set, and the dashed orange line is the boundary of the Danger Zone, at which point this community quest could have ended at any given moment. The green line is the progress over time. Well, if this quest was going to shut down on Christmas Day, we certainly cut it pretty darn close. Here's a close-up view:
12 Days of Whiskey Final Progress (close-up view) Doesn't get much closer than that to a potential deadline. Good stuff. Enjoy the bonus XP!Some final stats:
- We successfully hit the 2,000 user threshold at 1:43 AM EST on Christmas Day.
- It took us 228.7 hours to complete this community quest. If you consider the starting point to be when the final quest was unlocked, then it took us 14.3 hours to finish.
- Our final completion rate is 8.7 completions per hour overall, or 139.7 completions per hour over the 14.3 active hours. Given when the quest unlocked, we needed to exceed a pace of 50.51 completions per hour.
- Depending on the deadline, we may have had as little as 77 minutes before this community quest expired. Then again, the active portion of the full set of this quest was a very small window. I would suggest that it will probably extend into Christmas Day at least somewhat.
- As stated earlier, I don't plan to compare this set to past sets. Too many differences, as far as I'm concerned, including 11 days in which users could complete most of the quests ahead of time. Let's just say that while we were fast, we didn't beat any of the really fast quest sets.
- User chronomac earned lucky completion #2000. User Nigglenummy just missed out on the bonus XP, with the #2001 finish.
- 4,000,000 in bonus XP will be doled out as a result of this quest. If users were made only out of XP, that would be enough to create 39.86 versions of me, which would make for really annoying faux-statistical analysis all throughout the site.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone! As always, thanks for reading. I'm going to go to sleep so that I can open presents tomorrow and feel appropriately guilty.
If you have any questions, criticism, concerns, or requests, just post a reply. I'll be glad to answer anything relevant.