Hq Player Review

[Patricia]

Thanksfor coming back to me so quickly. Even though I have unticked the options in slide settings, it still doesn't remove the next and previous buttons from review mode. From what I can see in a previous thread, showing next and previous is the default setting when in review mode which can't be changed.

One of my favorite parts of this Yoto Player review! Before you go out and drop hundreds on pre-made Yoto cards, stop, collaborate and listen. My #1 tip is to invest in a couple of packs of the Make-Your-Own (MYO) cards.

But if you purchase a pre-made Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, for instance, it will remain Diary of a Wimpy Kid forever. For some families, this is ideal. Small children often enjoy listening to the same stories over and over again, and then they can be passed down to younger siblings. But for other families in different situations, not so much!

For families without anyone to pass down the cards to, or for families with older children, it may make more sense to purchase the Diary of a Wimpy Kid from an mp3-supported audiobook site like Libro.fm, which supports a local bookstore of their choosing. Then can put the book on a MYO card, delete the content once their child is done with it, and repurpose it by connecting it to a new audiobook, music album, or podcast/radio station RSS feed.

For years, bedtime was the most challenging part of the day, largely due to one adorable child believing to she was a vampire. Typically, after we were done reading stories, she would try everything she could to delay closing her eyes, and it resulted in her not getting enough sleep. (Which impacted every part of her life!)

I should add that the Yoto has also made mornings easier. Yes, the alarms and timers are super, but there are rarely tears or disagreements while getting ready anymore because a favorite audiobook, music album, podcast or radio station is playing. (I highly recommend positive affirmations.) It sets the tone for a great day!

We chose the Mini because of how often we take them with us around Chicago. The girls also share a room, and usually want to listen to different audiobooks, podcasts, radio stations and albums when going to sleep. The Yoto Mini players work great for this. (they simply use wireless headphones for safety!)

Last March I was curious about player count because it felt like less people were playing, but I had no actual data to back up my feelings. Sure, the HC Discord has player count statistics, but they only go back seven days so they're kind of useless for long-term analysis. I initially started my tracking by manually checking player counts from the server status page at a certain time once a week. This was fine, unless I didn't have an internet connection at 6PM on a Saturday, or I forgot to check, or I forgot to write down the number, or Mercury was in tardigrade, or Corey was in the house, or whatever else the cosmos could dream up to disrupt my plans. Oh, and I was about to drop off the face of the earth for half a year with no way to even get onto the internet, let alone update anything at all, and a tracking system like this that relies on manual labor is definitely not going to work when the person doing that labor isn't around to do it. "Surely there must be a better way," I thought.

Enter Python and my "the only coding experience I have is a few months of Java 15 years ago and even then I could barely make a functional program" self. Turns out, you don't really have to write your own code from scratch when what you need is 90% complete somewhere else - you just have to find the pieces you want and put them together, then make them work for your specific task. In my case, I wanted a script that would do the following things:

Simple, yeah? Not so much. So many headaches. Took me a solid 3 days of tweaking code and tweaking my Sheets document to get things working. Google Sheets is weird about filters and zeroes, so I had to get creative with Google's query language to get the data in a format that would give a user-friendly graph.

A 50ish-line Python script which does everything in steps 1 and 2 above, an AWS virtual host which handles running the script every 15 minutes (and hosts everything since my computer is not always online), and a Google Sheets document with... just a few lines of data.

TL;DR: Reports of Homecoming's death are greatly exaggerated. That being said, there is extreme stratification in the server populations. Excelsior tends to have a population greater than the other four servers combined and Indomitable and Reunion really are mostly empty. I suspect there is nothing that can be done about this, but player population and proportional share of server population has remained relatively stable so I suspect we're simply sitting at a baseline. In other words, the people who are still playing the game four years after it came back into the public eye are here to stay, and any large population changes (down or up) aren't going to happen.

Nice! I like posts with hard data. It has certainly felt to me that for the last two years there's been a constant stream of new globals showing up and a similar stream of older globals no longer showing up, as players come and go. But it has never felt like one was greater than the other, excepting events.

Also having hopped around and tried some other servers recently to see what they're doing (Some of it is cool, some of it sucks and some of it is straight up insane) I can say, if I'm reading the graphs right, that pretty much every other free server struggles to even reach 50 players at their peak times, so even though Torch, Indom and Reunion are extremely low, their populations are probably as much or more than any other CoH server out there. Ev and Ex dwarf all of them combined by orders of magnitude, obviously.

I say this not to create server drama, but to point out to anyone that thinks those three servers should be axed and incorporated into the other two, that there are numerous people happily playing away on servers with that population size or smaller.

That looks accurate and matches up with our internal stats (it should since they're both pulling from the same API). The weird looking gap in December is because either the API endpoint or the stats database was down for a few days over Christmas, but was low priority enough that nobody took time away to go fix it.

I have noticed a bit of a "we don't use the LFG channel, join our Discord to find out blah" trend , so it feels more like a ghost town than it is at times. If you put it on the LFG, people will come. Sometimes, you have to take the lead. I'm in the UK and play on Everlasting because from experience RP servers generally have a nice atmosphere and this game ran playably on dial-up so lag is rarely a problem.

A similar thing happened on the NA GW2 servers but not the EU servers (well, to nearly the same extent) where the NA LFG is a ghost town because the LFG peand the EU LFG is live and well as long at it's not like 3am on a Wednesday.

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