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Obei Kinstar · **08-03-2013, 09:09 AM**

I just seen this on the beta forums, Ive seen similar ones like this but this one has many % and numbers broken down into a lot of categories.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?k...true#gid=3

The thing that caught my eye was the percentage of role-players on the different servers.

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You can see on Gilgamesh 17% of the population are RP'ers
On Balmung 47% are RP'ers

There was a lot more people on Gilgamesh then Balmung, but at the same time a lot of Balmung players made char to rp on Gilgamesh for the beta.

It seems Balmung will be quite rounded out with it's playerbase, with some hardcore, casual, and rp.

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Now this part here shows overall numbers for all worlds. You can see the average number of RP'ers is about 14%, that is fairly close to the % of RP'ers on Gilgamesh, which came in at 17%.

So it is safe to assume there will be more then average number of RP'ers on Gilgamesh but only slightly. I'm guessing this is due to the fact that there is 1.already a core of RP'ers established on Balmung, 2. there is no official RP server so people don't know about it, 3. it is fairly new info that Gilgamesh is the unofficial non-legacy RP server, and 4. there are multiple unofficial non-legacy rp servers with the beta forums having a small following on behemoth.

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This final piece is very enlightening, showing the preferred race and classes from our rp crowd. Almost everyone will be a female miqote, with a few male midlanders, all other races are virtually extinct.

I'm really not very happy with the races, I was thinking about switching my char to a female keeper of the moon... I am definitly not going too now. I think I will just keep my char the way he is, but again my char is a hume midlander, the 3rd most popular. (in ffxi i was taru and hated being so small) So for ffxiv I just tried to model my character similar to how I look irl, i guess, generally speaking, I look like everyone else...lol

EDIT: decided to put this quote in here since it sums things up nicely

(08-03-2013, 11:59 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I think this is based off the surveyÂ discussed here.

While I think the overall thrust of the big effects are probably true (Balmung and Gilgamesh will have more RPers, Balmung's barrier to entry means it will have a particularly large percentage of RPers per capita, miqo'te females will be super-commonÂ Â ), I agree that one should take this with between one and several grains of salt because...

It's a self-selecting sample; people were asked to go to and fill out the survey as opposed to getting the survey (this produces a suppressing effect on those with weaker opinions)

We don't know what the attrition rate was (who selected out of the survey?)

The survey predominantly went out to Reddit and 4chan, biasing the results to be "a study of Redditors and some other people); we know Gilgamesh is Reddit's server

The thread linked above indicated some methodological issues with multiple votes, and we're not sure how they got cleaned up

So -- it's interesting, but certainly not damning in any way. Both Gilgamesh and Balmung will be, I'm sure, great homes for RPers.Â

Survey showing % of RP'ers on Gilgamesh vs. Balmung

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