Tell me more ×
Arqade is a question and answer site for passionate videogamers on all platforms. It's 100% free, no registration required.
up vote 0 down vote favorite

Is there any way (macro, script, addon, command, API method?) to check how many online players are in the realm you're connected to?

share|improve this question

2 Answers

up vote 1 down vote accepted

The Census addon provides lovely minimalistic graphs/statistics about the realm population (classes, races, lvls, guilds). It does that by performing a series of /who so that it covers the whole population.

Each scan takes about 2 minutes (on my server) and at the end you get a small chat report that is like

Found 120 new characters and saw 580 existing

From which you can conclude that there are 700 characters online.

share|improve this answer
THIS! This is what I was talking about. By the way... On what server do you play? Seems kinda dead to me :) – AeroCross Dec 12 '12 at 17:24
Tarren Mill, but numbers are imaginary! Usually we are fewer :] – Andreas Feb 18 at 10:53
up vote 1 down vote

Have you tried /who? I think I remember that working

Edit: I found a simply LOVELY site after some googling: http://wow.realmpop.com/ It looks exactly like what you need. If you need something more than a website, I think this is where my help ends

share|improve this answer
Seems like you could do it by changing the default search, based on wowwiki.com/Who_List – Matthew Read Dec 5 '12 at 3:51
I've tried /who but it always returns 49 players. Tried looking for 10-90 lvl the last time I tried. Any other query I try ends up dumping the same result. – AeroCross Dec 5 '12 at 21:51
@Aerocross /who is capped at 50 results. Most 'census' type sites such as the one linked in this answer work by running a large number or queries designed to have minimal overlap and get a number of results under 49. It's a horribly inexact method at best, but the data you want isn't exposed in any other way - presumably by choice. – LessPop_MoreFizz Dec 6 '12 at 2:59

Your Answer

 
discard

By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.