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Kinect Four Quest Stats

by trace

Hooray for controller-less technology! I'll admit I want the Kinect. I just don't want it for $150. For me, that means sweepstakes and instant win contests up the wazoo for a while. I'm cheap like that. My thriftiness has nothing to do with the community quest, though. We've got this fancy new quest this week, with a lofty 4,000 completion goal we've had trouble hitting in the past. Even before...

Hooray for controller-less technology! I'll admit I want the Kinect. I just don't want it for $150. For me, that means sweepstakes and instant win contests up the wazoo for a while. I'm cheap like that.
 
My thriftiness has nothing to do with the community quest, though. We've got this fancy new quest this week, with a lofty 4,000 completion goal we've had trouble hitting in the past. Even before I collected any data on this quest's progress, I made a wild prediction that we'd fail and only accumulate 2,500 completions total. Will I be proven wrong? I sure hope so! EDIT: Yes.
 
Here is your final graph.

Kinect Four Final Progress In honor of the new dashboard, I added a bit of pizazz to the graph. It's basically the same, though: The gold line at the top was our 4,000 completion goal, the red line was the pace we needed to exceed to succeed, and the green line was our progress over the course of the quest. 
 
So yeah, my plan to stay awake until 3 AM and capture the final data point? Totally failed. I probably need to work on that. Regardless, I'm not sure exactly if this community quest will stop giving out bonus XP past its deadline or not. Therefore, I don't know if I should keep recording data until the box vanishes. I'll figure that out. In the meantime, I apologize for my lack of verve in tracking the end of this quest. I'll work on a better system for these community quests where everyone completing them gets bonus XP, regardless of hitting the goal or not.
 
Anyways, here's the final numbers, using my 12:01 PM data point from today:
  • In the last 24 hours, our completions increased by 124, roughly 3.1% of our total goal. That's about a 51% drop-off from yesterday.
  • In total, we accumulated 2,944 completions. That's 73.6% of our 4,000 user goal.
  • Our overall rate of progress for this quest was 24.9 completions per hour. In the last twelve hours, it's been closer to 4.5 completions per hour on average.
  • Considering all the user completions at this point, this quest has doled out 2,060,800 in bonus XP. That's roughly 23.5 times my XP as a level 30 user.
  • This quest's progress is still almost exactly between the Halloween and Fallout: New Vegas quest sets in its pace. Take that as you will.
 
As always, let me know if you have any questions, comments, or criticism. I'll be back with more data for the next community quest to show up. Maybe I need to look into an automated data collecting method, too...