danr wrote:
I'd be curious to see a statistical breakdown of the most popular / most successful species based on the CAO / CDO records.
0.7 and 0.8:
25171x Demonspawn, 13081x Spriggan, 11756x Deep Elf, 9330x High Elf, 9233x Merfolk, 8610x Mountain Dwarf, 6786x Kobold, 6757x Sludge Elf, 5868x Troll, 5758x Hill Orc, 5632x Vampire, 5535x Naga, 5251x Kenku, 5160x Mummy, 4916x Minotaur, 4720x Human, 4390x Draconian, 4165x Deep Dwarf, 3680x Ghoul, 3598x Ogre, 3155x Halfling, 2588x Demigod, 1672x Felid, 1313x Centaur
Things to note -- felids are only in .8 trunk; new species like the overhaul of DS will boost their play a lot.
0.8: (so far)
3510x Demonspawn, 1844x Deep Elf, 1672x Felid, 1596x Sludge Elf, 1363x Mummy, 1287x Spriggan, 1162x Kobold, 1131x Mountain Dwarf, 1030x High Elf, 1005x Draconian, 973x Vampire, 843x Merfolk, 828x Kenku, 688x Naga, 634x Minotaur, 599x Deep Dwarf, 577x Hill Orc, 514x Troll, 495x Ogre, 416x Human, 314x Ghoul, 304x Halfling, 256x Demigod, 159x Centaur
0.7:
21661x Demonspawn, 11794x Spriggan, 9912x Deep Elf, 8390x Merfolk, 8300x High Elf, 7480x Mountain Dwarf, 5624x Kobold, 5354x Troll, 5181x Hill Orc, 5161x Sludge Elf, 4847x Naga, 4659x Vampire, 4423x Kenku, 4304x Human, 4282x Minotaur, 3797x Mummy, 3566x Deep Dwarf, 3385x Draconian, 3366x Ghoul, 3103x Ogre, 2851x Halfling, 2332x Demigod, 1154x Centaur
Here is the trend explained to you in quick terms
Centaurs remain most unpopular. Guess I'll have to go with a suggestion from elliptic, a member of Team Kiku for last year's tournament and switch to Team Centaur
This is weird, as Ce is one of the top 5 most powerful races as explained by very strong players.
Demigod remain second most unpopular. This is confusing to me -- people say they are boring but I played one near the start of when I played and it was exceedingly fun, DGCj was my 4th win.
Challenge races and ones perceived to be a challenge are low in the race ratings. Ogre, Draconian (0.7), Deep Dwarf (although this is IMO the strongest race), Mummy are all low in 0.7. So is halfling. I can't explain this -- Ha (although it used to be viewed as the weakest race from what I gather) is remarkably strong, especially in 0.7 - try a evasion based halfling berserker and tell me it isn't fun.
On top of the lists is demonspawn. I reckon this is probably because a) it came out in .7 and b) it has the most variety of all races so people play it the most.
Successful races I'll do in another post