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Hell, It's About Time (for) Quest Stats

by trace

Once again, I thought I'd provide some illustration and statistics for the latest Starcraft-oriented community quest. Will enough of the community figure out if this is Jimmy or not? As it turns out, yes. Here's the final graph of progress: Hell, It's About Time Final Progress The yellow bar at the top was our goal, the red line is the progress we needed to make to reach that goal in time, and...

Once again, I thought I'd provide some illustration and statistics for the latest Starcraft-oriented community quest. Will enough of the community figure out if this is Jimmy or not? As it turns out, yes.
 
Here's the final graph of progress:

Hell, It's About Time Final Progress The yellow bar at the top was our goal, the red line is the progress we needed to make to reach that goal in time, and the green line is our progress, which, as you can see, stalled initially for a few due to the video bug before shooting upwards almost as fast as our progress in X-Treme.
 
Here's some final stats:
  • At the start of this community quest, we needed 12.6 completions per hour to succeed. Our final rate of completion was 114.5 completions per hour.
  • We were given roughly 158.5 hours to complete this quest 2,000 times. We completed the quest in roughly 17.5-17.7 hours, easily ahead of schedule. I'd have a more definite time, but it's hard to wake up every few minutes around 6 AM to check.
  • If we used up the full amount of time allotted at our current pace, I'd estimate 8,000-12,000 completions would have been possible at the end, although it's safe to say our pace would have easily fallen off by that point. Still, 3,000 to 5,000 was potentially a very viable target.
  • If the early delay in completions hadn't occurred (which may have happened anyways since watching videos can take a while) and the graph started spiking upwards from the start, this quest still would have taken almost twice as long to complete as X-Treme. A comparison graph of all the community quests recorded so far is below.

Quest Comparison Graph (as of Hell, It's About Time)
If you have any questions, requests, or criticisms on the graph or the stats I'm recording/pumping out, don't hesitate to post them in here. 
 
Thanks for reading, and enjoy your bonus XP, if you finished in time! If you didn't finish in time, the quests are still around, so there's plenty of time to find Jimmy and other memes and cliches in here.