Comparing 2001 and 2010 playerbase

[Rhynox]

While checking old logs, I discovered this one from 2001:

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Statistics.                                60 Mercade     Arch       Nov 18

Greetings,

These statistics are gathered based on the mortal players with a playing age
of more than 12 hours who visited these realms during the last 2 months.

RACE AND GENDER:

            Male Female %Female Total %Total

    Human    413   106    20%    519    49%
    Elf      145    67    32%    212    20%
    Goblin    98     9     8%    107    10%
    Dwarf     98     7     7%    105    10%
    Hobbit    73    22    23%     95     9%
    Gnome     21     8    28%     29     3%

    Total    848   219    21%   1067   100%

REGISTERED PLAYING AGE:

    Up to 1 week     263    25%
    Up to 2 weeks    105    10%
    Up to 1 month    145    14%
    Up to 2 months   144    13%
    Up to 100 days   143    13%
    Up to 150 days   128    12%
    Up to 200 days    73     7%
    Up to 250 days    35     3%
    From 250 days     31     3%

PLAYER LEVEL:

    Novice	      18     2%
    Greenhorne        34     3%
    Beginner          38     4%
    Apprentice        61     6%
    Wanderer          68     6%
    Adventurer        55     5%
    Adept             89     8%
    Great dventurer   83     8%
    Veteran          121    11%
    Expert           128    12%
    Rising hero      124    12%
    Hero             110    10%
    Titan             70     7%
    Champion          51     5%
    Legend            17     2%
    Myth               0     0%

ALIGNMENT:

    Holy                       242    23% \
    Devout .. Saintly          128    13%
    Nice .. Good               121    11%    56% good
    Agreeable .. Sympathetic    96     9% /
    Neutral                     98     9% -   9% neutral
    Disagreeable .. Sinister   129    12% \
    Wicked .. Evil              85     8%    35% evil
    Malevolent .. Demonic       49     5%
    Damned                     109    10% /

I got a few conclusions comparing the data to the current one (at least the data we have from the last update player base statistics). I believe the new mortal titles were implemented around April 24, 2001 (there is a note titled "New titles." but I don't have a log of it unfortunately). The last update from the Genesis population was:

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    novice              53   8%
    greenhorne          17   3%
    beginner            28   4%
    apprentice          23   4%
    wanderer            19   3%
    adventurer          24   4%
    adept               31   5%
    great adventurer    24   4%
    veteran             47   8%
    expert              45   7%
    rising hero         52   8%
    hero                66  11%
    titan               73  12%
    champion            32   5%
    legend              49   8%
    myth                37   6%

There can be some rounding errors, but the general idea is this one. The average was 8.7 (which would be mature great adventurer), now the average is 9.5 (which would be halfway between veteran and expert). Back then (if we take great adventurer as the average), 34% of the players were below it (with an average size between them all of 4.78, or mature apprentice), and 59% were above it (with an average size of 11, or rising hero). In the current setup, taking veteran as average, 35% of the players are below it (with an average size of 4, which is apprentice), and 55% above it (with an average size of 12.8, or mature hero).

Note also that before the alignment balance was 56/9/35, while now it is 38/29/33. Quite a lot of people were forced to be goodies before apparently (neutral guilds like the mercenaries helped!).