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City of Lost Characters

A mishmash of gloriously useless statistics

Introduction

Here they are — the final stats of the entire "City of Lost Characters" forum RP — for your amusement, curiosity and enlightenment. There might be slight inaccuracies in the data. But who cares?
...this endeavour is beautifully unimportant anyway.


For complete stats, please click here.

Older stats can be found here: Sep 2017, Feb 2016.

Overall stats

Starting date:

October 18th, 2015

Ending date:

September 1st, 2022

Total duration:

2,421 days

Total posts in the roleplay thread:

30,263 posts

Total players:

(with at least one post)

79 + the GM

Total player characters:

(with at least one post)

156

Total wordcount:

5,811,759 words

(10 × War and Peace

8 × Lord of the Rings

4.5 × The Dark Tower cycle)

Total chapters:

30 chapters

Average words written per day:

2,401 words

Average words/chapter:

193,725 words

Average chapter duration:

1,009 posts
81 days

In calculating the above statistics, I made two important corrections.

First, all "junk posts" (useless posts such as "whoops", "wrong thread") were identified and removed from the dataset before the calculation; there was a total of 53 such posts. Hence why the total length of the roleplay is given as 30,263 posts, even though the game forum thread has 30,316 total posts.

Second, all the officially announced hiatuses (breaks in the RP) were subtracted from the total time duration; these hiatuses lasted 89 days in total. Hence why the total duration is given as 2,421 days and not 2,510.

Chapter stats

Chapters with most posts:

Chapter 15: Holiday at Holiday Park [Holiday] — 1,901 posts

Chapter 14: Totally Radical! [Competitions] — 1,579 posts

Chapter 11: The Guaranteed Adventure [Ocean] — 1,465 posts

Chapters with least posts:

Chapter 30: A New Dawn [End] — 148 posts

Chapter 29: Diabolus Ex Machina [Final boss] — 350 posts

Chapter 27: The Light Alongside You [Not-friends] — 395 posts

Shortest chapters:

(in real-life days)

Chapter 1: Already Missing Home [Start] — 9 days

Chapter 3: Stillness of the Cold [Cold] — 25 days

Chapter 5: A Child at Heart [Age swap] — 25 days

Chapters with most active players:

(players who posted at least once during the chapter)

Chapter 8: What is a Man? [Species swap] — 33 players

Chapter 15: Holiday at Holiday Park [Holiday] — 32 players

Chapter 11: The Guaranteed Adventure [Ocean] — 30 players

Most active chapters:

(most posts per day)

Chapter 1: Already Missing Home [Start] — 49 posts/day

Chapter 10: The Obligatory Filler [Beach] — 41 posts/day

Chapter 8: What is a Man? [Species swap] — 40 posts/day

Player stats

Players with most posts:

AllHailThrall (as Ben Tennyson) — 2,505 posts

ColeMinor (as Cole & Anders & Fenris) — 2,304 posts

DeisTheAlcano (as Rex Salazar & Mami Tomoe) — 1,928 posts

Players with most words written:

DeisTheAlcano (as Rex Salazar & Mami Tomoe) — 373,760 words

AllHailThrall (as Ben Tennyson) — 361,142 words

ColeMinor (as Cole & Anders & Fenris) — 330,778 words

GM posts:

2,764 posts

1,118,839 words

Players with most average words/post:

(only players with 50+ posts)

SchoolYardBlues (as Kieri Suzahn) — 350 words/post

JamesShields (as Caro Ru Lushe and Friedrich) — 301 words/post

Yomegami (as Fate & Dedede & Zelda & Call) — 274 words/post

Players with least average words/post:

(only players with 50+ posts)

WeirdGuy149 (as Bill Cipher & Samurai Jack) — 58 words/post

Cybersbe (as Twilight Sparkle) — 66 words/post

EchoingSilence (as Adam Jensen & Cain & Mega Man X) — 73 words/post

Ominae (as Gon) — 73 words/post

Participated in the most chapters:

(posted in them at least once)

AllHailThrall (as Ben Tennyson) — all 30 chapters

Katarsus (as Ara Haan & Ellen & Luciela & Mary & Yuna) — 29 chapters

Locoman (as Rick and Morty) — 29 chapters

Ominae (as Gon) — 29 chapters

Players with most characters:

Tied:
FergardStratoavis, Makaioh, ProTrash, ShoutmonZ
— 6 characters each

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The City is now empty

For how long?