Class/race ratio chart

Xaetherian

Can we please have one of those class/race ratio charts? I admit I have no real reason for needing one, but I'm curious to see how much stat packs have actually changed up the choices.

Tecton

Those active in the last 30 days, who have a high level of play (non-newbies)

RACE   occu monk drui serp pala prie sent infe magi sham rune jest apos sylv bard blad alch   TOT 
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human    14   22   21   17   13   14    9    7   18    7   23    3    6    5    6   15   10   210
dwarf     9   12   13   11   16   24    6    4    7    1   25    2   12   27    6   11    5   191
tsol'aa  13    7   19    8    2    5    9    2   43    4    6    2    4   38    5    6    8   181
mhun      9   11    5   69    4    2    2    2    3    6    9    8    5    1    1    7    6   150
troll     2   20   10    7    5    6    7   11    0    1   20    6    0    2    2   12    0   111
rajama   10   30   27   73   13    4   26   11    9   13   31   14    5   11    9   26   12   324
atavia   11   22   24   20    8   18    9    5   21    6   17   13    0   20   13   17   12   236
xoran     2   14   10    7    6    4    5    3    5    2   10    4    1    7    2   10    3    95
grook     6    2    4    1    0    2    0    0   40    3    1    0    2    7    1    1    8    78
horkva    1   39    9   12    2    2    2    3    7    0    4    1    0    8    4    6    6   106
satyr     3    2    5    4    1    1    1    2    1    2   10    1    0    1    2    3    1    40
siren    14    6   16   18    4    5    9    1   23    4    5   11    4   23    9    5    5   162
dragon   22   41   22   23    5   13    9    8   31    8   33    6    9   16    5   12    6   269
NUM     116  228  185  270   79  100   94   59  208   57  194   71   48  166   65  131   82 

Xaetherian

Thanks a ton, Tecton!

Rispok

Stupid apostates and shamans ruining my fun.

Vaehl

Serpents don't seem so special anymore.

Athorem

Poor satyrs.

Kadras

Humans all the way!


(yes I know my char isn't human but he will be later)

Xaetherian

Kadras said:

Humans all the way!


(yes I know my char isn't human but he will be later)

I highly disagree, why, in world full of fantasy and magic, would you want to be something you already are?

Katzchen

Really, 9 horkval knights? Wouldn't the no armour thing be a major handicap?

Aktillum

0 grook jesters? Water regen + priestess tarot OP.

Nakari

I'm a bit surprised that Rajamalans are still the most common after the changes.

 Figures that they can be the most popular race and still have no racial identity besides being cats : /

Nellaundra

It kinda amuses me that we apparently have 100 priests exactly.

Kadras

Xaetherian said:

Humans all the way!


(yes I know my char isn't human but he will be later)

I highly disagree, why, in world full of fantasy and magic, would you want to be something you already are?

I agree but playing humans differently from our own self is kind of fun.

Katzchen

I'd like to see more rajamala that actually act like tiger people, and not cat people.

Rispok

Katzchen said:

I'd like to see more rajamala that actually act like tiger people, and not cat people.

Like this?

MEOW

Iocun

Xaetherian said:

Humans all the way!


(yes I know my char isn't human but he will be later)

I highly disagree, why, in world full of fantasy and magic, would you want to be something you already are?

The allure of fantasy settings is not to experience something entirely different from what we already know, what we already are. If we wanted that, we wouldn't be playing Achaea, but perhaps some game that consisted of orange polygons in an eight-dimensional space, wobbling in indistinct patterns and playing white noise from our speakers whenever we press F9.

The world of Achaea and every typical "fantasy world", however, is like the real world in much more aspects than it is different from it.

The allure of these settings is that they are actually quite close to the reality we know and are part of, allowing us to play a character that is different from ourselves, but still close enough to be relatable, so we can imagine ourselves in our character's place without too much of a mental stretch. It's therefore absolutely no wonder that many like playing as humans, or human-like races.

Nim

Iocun said:  

The allure of fantasy settings is not to experience something entirely different from what we already know, what we already are. If we wanted that, we wouldn't be playing Achaea, but perhaps some game that consisted of orange polygons in an eight-dimensional space, wobbling in indistinct patterns and playing white noise from our speakers whenever we press F9.

I want this now. :<

Nakari

Katzchen said:

I'd like to see more rajamala that actually act like tiger people, and not cat people.

I'd like to see more rajamala that actually act like an alien race from a different planet that happen to bear strong semblance to certain species of Achaean great cats

but I'll settle for tiger people

Delphinus

Iocun said:

The allure of fantasy settings is not to experience something entirely different from what we already know, what we already are. If we wanted that, we wouldn't be playing Achaea, but perhaps some game that consisted of orange polygons in an eight-dimensional space, wobbling in indistinct patterns and playing white noise from our speakers whenever we press F9.

The world of Achaea and every typical "fantasy world", however, is like the real world in much more aspects than it is different from it.

The allure of these settings is that they are actually quite close to the reality we know and are part of, allowing us to play a character that is different from ourselves, but still close enough to be relatable, so we can imagine ourselves in our character's place without too much of a mental stretch. It's therefore absolutely no wonder that many like playing as humans, or human-like races.

Absolutely this. Why communicate with language, walk on two legs, eat, sleep, or be comprised of matter? Why organise into cities? Why be situated on a planet, with forests, mountains, oceans, and solid ground at all, surrounded by an atmosphere? Why play a game where there's a sky? We already have a sky in the real world. Skies are boring.

To answer @Xaetherian's question more directly, and to pretend it isn't just rhetorical:

• A good character's more about what you do than what you are. If you base an identity around simply being, that's called a prop.
• There are plenty of opportunities to be something you're not: a serpent, an Eleusian, a follower of Babel. A human cleric of Sartan is pretty different from a real-world human. In this light, having leathery grey skin or an exoskeleton is somewhat unimportant.
  
• Achaea's humans are born from the rape of a near-deity by a Lovecraftian horror. Can you, as a real-life human, lay claim to that? They're plenty special already.

Iocun

Nim said:

Iocun said:  

The allure of fantasy settings is not to experience something entirely different from what we already know, what we already are. If we wanted that, we wouldn't be playing Achaea, but perhaps some game that consisted of orange polygons in an eight-dimensional space, wobbling in indistinct patterns and playing white noise from our speakers whenever we press F9.

I want this now. :<

Shouldn't be too hard to program! Only difficulty is how to represent an eight-dimensional space on a computer screen. I guess I'll just make it a text game and write "this has eight dimensions, by the way".

Man, now I really want to do this.

Achilles

Nakari said:

I'm a bit surprised that Rajamalans are still the most common after the changes.

 Figures that they can be the most popular race and still have no racial identity besides being cats : /

I bet a ton of rajamalans are the dormant people who came back to check out the bal'met event.  I'd like to see this chart from 2011 pre-traits, I bet the Raja population was double with the level 2 balance perk.

Also shocked there are only 5 Paladin dragons.  The same number as bards?  

Lianca

Question: Does the total number represent dragons already counted as lesserform races, or is this a snapshot count of all active, counted in whatever form they happened to be in at the time?

Katzchen

I'd say it counted all dragons regardless of form. There isn't even quite that many ranked dragons in achaea right now. Maybe it counts them as dragon regardless of their lesserform? Otherwise it would throw out the class total if it counted them twice.

Tagg

Was just about to lol at being 1 of 2 grook monks, then realized I'm counted as dragon instead and I'm not special at all

Tecton, always trolling me

Lianca

For a true number of players within a class the dragon number would need to be minused from the bottom totals, as that's effectively a duplicate. Just out of idle interest!

Tecton

Not a duplicate, just their race at the time the report was run!

Lianca

Aha, thank you @Tecton!

Aerek

Good God, there are more Dragons than any other race save for Rajamalans? No rush coming back, Sycaerunax, take your time.

Tvistor

Was hoping we'd get rid of all those furry lunatics when L2 balance was removed.

Aliath

Hmm odd that there are more Tsol'aa magi than Grook.

Sigge

Aliath said:

Hmm odd that there are more Tsol'aa magi than Grook.

Really? Frog-men vs Elves? (I think thats how most people think of them).