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Johan

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Our first user was registered in December 1999.

#1000 - 18th February 2000
#5000 - 21st July 2001
#10000 - 28th June 2002
#20000 - 24th September 2003
#50000 - 1st November 2005
#100000 - 5th May 2008
#200000 - April 2010

January 2000 - 20 members
January 2001 - 650 members
January 2002 - 7500 members
January 2003 - 13500 members
January 2004 - 24000 members
January 2005 - 38000 members
January 2006 - 53000 members
January 2007 - 65000 members
January 2008 - 91000 members
January 2009 - 132000 members
January 2010 - 190000 members
 
Thanks a lot for the figures. Along with the announcement dates and release dates of your games they could give a very interesting insight on how PI grew :)
 
This reminds me of the time, all those years ago, when I first saw Europa Universalis on the shelf of my local EB Games, and thought "Nah, that looks lame". If only I had bought it, and discovered my love of Paradox sooner. I might have been part of more of that history.
 
When it comes to remembering....
My first contact with Paradox was also thanks to EU1. It was as free gift when you purchased certain gaming magazine. But that month was promised another game, which was somehow delayed, so they gave EU1 instead. I remember how disapointed I was at first. I was looking forward to the other one and when I wasn't able to even finish the tutorial, I almost gave up. Luckily I like challange, so I pushed on and when the next month came and I could get the previously promised game, I didn't even do it :)
 
Interesting.
 
These statistics fit quite well the function
c*exp(l*(x-s))
where x is the current year, and the fit parameters are c~=47.0898, l~=0.352223, s~=1986.44:
shpx


i.e. exponential growth. The time it takes for doubling the number of members is about 2 years.

edit: Oh, I think this is my 1000th post! Woohoo!
 
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I remember reading a review on EU I. I played mainly RPGs and RTSs at the time, and when I saw the scope of the game I wondered "what weirdos would play a sim' this complex and abstract?"

10 years later... Well... :D
 
telesien said:
It used to be a year :)
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Well, yes, in the early days the growth was quicker, but there the exponential fit fails anyway.

The function gives a doubling time in years of ln(2)/l~=1.96792.
 
Woah, the increase between 2001 and 2002 was pretty huge. What was released that year? EU II?
 
I discovered the Paradox forum only in 2005... A year earlier, i was just a PhD student, only buying very low cost games. When, on the shelf of my supermarket, i saw EUII (5-10 euros i think) and saw the map, reminded me of Robin Hood, Defender of the Crown, the old version i used to play on my old Mac computer 20 years earlier... so i decided to give it a try. Got completely hooked. While roaming through the Web looking for solutions to bugs, i discovered the forum - user 43919 - , and been there since :p
 
Doubling every two years - sounds like Moore's law:cool:

Maybe we should call it Johan's law and look forward to every living person on the planet being registered on the Paradox forums by 2026!:wacko:
 
Click your name and you will see a page with your profile. Your user id is there, in the link. This will roughly correspond to the number you have.

Johan has 2.
You have 83057.
I am 9092. Kind of old guard here :)

edit: emu'd
 
Dominik said:
Click your name and you will see a page with your profile. Your user id is there, in the link. This will roughly correspond to the number you have.

Johan has 2.
You have 83057.
I am 9092. Kind of old guard here :)

edit: emu'd
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you can also hover over usernames and check the URL that your browser shows the link will lead to. The last number in that URL is the user number.
 
Taylor said:
you can also hover over usernames and check the URL that your browser shows the link will lead to. The last number in that URL is the user number.
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Oh so it is in the URL line... You just saved me another few minutes of franatic searching. First the golden platypus group and now this help... You know, I'm actually starting to like you :D
 
telesien said:
Oh so it is in the URL line... You just saved me another few minutes of franatic searching. First the golden platypus group and now this help... You know, I'm actually starting to like you :D
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:) If you have any more questions...
 
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