Monthly AT Update Log - December

[Lego XBOX 915]

 

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Application Team Log

= December =

 

New Application Moderators

You may or may not have seen that the application team application forums was scrubbed after a few picks were made, and the addition of a new subforum ‘Shortlisted’. Before naming the newest additions to the team, a quick explanation on the new subforum. Here - managers and myself will be placing applicants which we find to be a good addition to the team (yet being unable to add them to keep the team at a necessary size).

 

Anywho, the newest members of the team was a mix of veterans and new blood as recommended by team management and then chosen by myself taking information provided into account. I shall expand on the selection process in subsequent months as I develop it.

 

Fireheart was certainly a no-brainer veteran to return to the team, once leader of the Application Team, this one was welcomed back quite promptly.

 

HedgeHug is another veteran who left on their own accord back in the day, and returns with some interesting ideas and projects they may be working on in the future.

 

Jlyoko is some new blood to the staff in general and to the team. Recommended by management and with no apparent issues working against them.

 

Vaynth is another new blood member brought into staff, coming highly recommended by management and general feedback.

 

New Player Data

The pie chart below (figure a1) gives an indication of the most popular races for new players when they first join the server. In the month of December, Human applicants dominated with over 50% of players accepted to the server being part of this group. No new Kharajyr joined the server, and the races which aren’t elves or humans only made up 20 new players - making up less than 20% of new players.

 

We also introduced the recording of applicant subraces (when stated), which allowed us to see the distribution of subraces within races. Humans tend to be accepted without a subrace, heartlanders making up the larger portion of those with a subrace. Orcs also tend to apply without subrace, but there were a couple goblins. Wood elves seem to be the most popular of elf applicants, and subraces all together are chosen far more commonly than a plain elf. Finally, dwarves also joined the server most commonly without a subrace.

 

Figure a1. Accepted applicant distribution by race (n=116).

 

Figure a2. Accepted applicant distribution by subrace (n=111).

 

In the spoiler below, you will find a list of the new players accepted to the server, be sure to help these people out if you have time!

 

Table 1. Accepted applicant name and race.

Spoiler

Shabu	Dark Elf
KingDragonFire	Human Heartlander
Kobble	Dwarf
DietCocaine	Human Heartlander
Ysabell	High Elf
tcs_tonsils_	N/A
pinkcrown13	N/A
FoodnStuffz	Cavern Dwarf
AwesomeSubseb	Human Highlander
HelloFroyo	Elf
Trippodubh	Halfling
Darzag	Orc Uruk
gripyweeds	Orc Goblin
julian15maart	Halfling
TyroneKing	Human
ShIXDirce	Human
BobbyT	High Elf
Foodlover	High Elf
Magikarp	Wood Elf
Endermaniac	Orc Goblin
xxxMuffinMAnxxx	Human
oMapleSyrup	High Elf
MisterMemer	Orc
Emma_The_Dilemma	Human
Soviet_0nion	Wood Elf
Sawliny	Wood Elf
Bravo136	Halfling
x_Paytonnn_x	Wood Elf
HydroFlourish	Wood Elf
KingBobaVII	Human
Costin	Human Heartlander
tobzish	Orc
Shoxio	Human
LadyRebecca	N/A
Cherri	High Elf
KitsunePrincess	N/A
Lunar5hadow	Human Heartlander
Apollo49	Wood Elf
EdgelessBladez	Human Farfolk
OakTress	Wood Elf
Jollification	High Elf
LordRelic	Human
Dankmar Eisenfaust	N/A
Wylie	Elf
Primal Destruction	Human
LifeInVelvet	N/A
NeonRose2	Human
Lotrloz	Human Heartlander
Choc_Raider	Wood Elf
evefream	Human Heartlander
TeenyBeanieQueen	Human
Gray_hood8171	Mountain Dwarf
Seranita	Human
Magic_Warlock	Human Heartlander
DarkElfs	Human Highlander
Kwizzle122	Dark Elf
XLuckyZeroX	Mountain Dwarf
IrrelevantQ	Human
Audio/Volatile	Human
Saibre	Human Heartlander
Queen_Stardust	Wood Elf
James Hanson	Human
radish	Human Heartlander
EnragedReshiram2	N/A
MadYeAd	Wood Elf
Prince Orobas	Wood Elf
Heresy	Human Heartlander
lettucebowler	Human Heartlander
Dankmar Eisenfaust	N/A
SplenShepard	Halfling
Toadstool	Human
BrainDamager	Human
Koshka07	Human Heartlander
WestCoast	N/A
GodOfCombatRp	Human Heartlander
Lacertus	High Elf
Old_Man_Tubby	Human Highlander
Starlea	High Elf
Devonic	Human Highlander
McThornz	N/A
Isabella Smith	Human Highlander
Gulbrandr	Human Heartlander
Sam1005	Human Farfolk
Valdrad	Orc Uruk
Branches	Human
Captain Aasim	Human
Wolf_Michael	Human
SnowyForest	Human
Zacharias	Human
CieCie	Human
Khazula	High Elf
rosebadwolftyler	High Elf
Samwise	Human
ZeeKittyCat	Human
luminos2002	Wood Elf
Sheepthulu	Human
ProSlayer	Human Heartlander
Azar04	Human
KaiTheMagnificent	Human
FellTheArtist	Human
HighwayStar	Human Heartlander
Pando_	N/A
ElementalGamer	N/A
Nine	High Elf
Banix	Human
Rogue_Blade	Human Highlander
Nurbo	Human Highlander
Fitzroy	Dwarf
XBlackveinX	Dark Elf
Jmaster04	Halfling
_Reeg	N/A
JeffirestheFox	Human Highlander
Anvyn	N/A
JamieWIII	Human Heartlander
Alfonso X el Sabio	Human Highlander
BlaiS	Human
YoMama	Human Highlander
Binx	Dwarf
Winterwind23	Mountain Dwarf
WardDragon	Human
OlegMeerkat	Human
Paladin46	Dwarf
Fenean	N/A
KusaGaming	Human
steelinurskull	Wood Elf
Traanman	Human
ShannonLeigh	N/A
Bepsi	Wood Elf
IrrelevantQ	Human
Xerihsob	Orc Uruk
kingmozarela	Human Highlander
Kasius	Human Heartlander

 

 

 

In figure (b) it can be seen that almost ¾ of applications were accepted this month. Those accepted were equally distributed between direct and after pending. Less people were denied after being placed on pending than straight off the bat, which demonstrates the well functioning system which is ‘Pending’.

 

Figure b. Distribution of application results (n=193).

 

A new statistic this month is the distribution of timezones for new players (when properly included). It is no surprise that the majority comes from the American time zones, however there was a rather large portion of europeans. As expected, there were very few oceania based players.

 

Figure c. Distribution of accepted player timezones (n=114).

 

Team Data

Because of new additions bringing the team to 10 members, the quota was lowered to 6% (allowing 60% of total application to be covered by quota). Despite this, Jandy and Parion went beyond expectations covering 60% of applications together. This put a strain on meeting quota for some (as these two blast through apps like wildfire).

 

Figure d. Percentage of applications completed by application team members. Total applications, n = 193. Quota noted by red hashed line (6%).

 

The new additions were brought onto the team half way through the month and were not expected to meet quota. Pumpkin was quite busy with the festive season and has been warned on their activity - as has Goldensaint2. Grimmothy was close enough to the quota considering the fervour with which some members completed applications.

 

Team Projects

Gus has left the position of manager and due to the size of the team will not be replaced. This month, Luv and Coolio cooperated in training the new additions to the team. These two also took on 5 members each with which as is their position that they had to keep in touch with. Leslie has been working on a variety of projects which overlap with the Application Team. Unfortunately, most projects seem to run quite slowly.

 

Player Retention data compilation has been ‘outsourced’ to a third party which will be conducting the sorts of statistical analysis such as the one I did last month. Hopefully, this data analysis will be released by next month. Contact Yung for more information.

 

Finally, by no choice of my own - the Application Team is turning pink instead of the beautiful green which was ours beforehand.

[Bvie 1754]

Glad to see a lot of the chart ideas I had used in my own post (Racial Divisions, Time Zones, etc) are being put to good use. The more information the better.

 

Good work.

[Wrynn 1349]

I really do love these monthly updates... Although I hate statistics - the pictures are really nice c:

[SpodoKaiba 612]

39 minutes ago, Lego XBOX said:

 

Figure a1. Accepted applicant distribution by race (n=116).

halflings making a comeback 

[Kvasir 1121]

GO HALFLINGS! 

[Ducklingator 795]

Shouldn't halflings count as humans? It's like half-elf is under the arch-race of elf.

[Kvasir 1121]

1 minute ago, SuperDuckyGamer said:

Shouldn't halflings count as humans? It's like half-elf is under the arch-race of elf.

no, they should not. They have their own culture and are not a sub culture, mechanically and RPly they are not humans.

[Cat Evocation 3728]

Why is it that it seems only two of your members actually do the work their given (leaving the new ones out of this) while the others seem to be rarely seen in the action and couldn't had made the quota? Is this something the AT plans to work on fixing for next month together as an improved goal or is Quota not the big concern as of now.

 

And sure you got new players so your Managers needed to train them but that was twords the end of the month, could you explain to us on how those projects are doing I'm quite interested. Sorry if it comes off anyway harsh I just wish to know as a player that the team that manages the people coming into the server is doing well.

 

@Lego XBOX

[KetchenX 180]

My boy Andy is crushing the race.

[Vaynth 3005]

Glad to be on the team. One day I'll be on the level of Jandy and Parion.

Also amazing job on the statistics Lego XBOX!

[Zindran 590]

If only some of those humans applied as dwarves or halflings... grr oren grr

[_Jandy_ 3519]

5 hours ago, Lego XBOX said:

Team Data

Because of new additions bringing the team to 10 members, the quota was lowered to 6% (allowing 60% of total application to be covered by quota). Despite this, Jandy and Parion went beyond expectations covering 60% of applications together. This put a strain on meeting quota for some (as these two blast through apps like wildfire).

 

Figure d. Percentage of applications completed by application team members. Total applications, n = 193. Quota noted by red hashed line (6%).

 

 

                                                          

 

4 hours ago, Kinslayer said:

GO HALFLINGS! 

 

4 hours ago, Spodumpster said:

halflings making a comeback 

 

4 hours ago, SuperDuckyGamer said:

Shouldn't halflings count as humans? It's like half-elf is under the arch-race of elf.

Try looking at halfling stats from last month when we beat the orcs and tied with the dwarves. ?

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[Moochael 730]

love you jandy

[Dr. Ducky-D 277]

6 hours ago, Lego XBOX said:

Finally, by no choice of my own - the Application Team is turning pink instead of the beautiful green which was ours beforehand.

That green was indeed beautiful... ?

Anyhow to be serious, the statistics are beautiful, very well done, and quite insightful, I find. I am interested to hear about these projects, they sound very enigmatic as of now.
This might just be me, but with the charts it's a bit hard to tell the legends apart between the reds unless I zoom in to give it a good look. That would be with the Orc subrace chart and the Pending-Denied vs Denied in the application results chart. It's not a big deal though, not meaning to sound nit picky, could just be me being incompetent.

 

7 hours ago, Lego XBOX said:

Figure a2. Accepted applicant distribution by subrace (n=111).

 

Figure b. Distribution of application results (n=193).

 

 

Anyhow it seems like our applicants are in good hands! Love you all and keep up the good work!