Saturday, August 31, 2013

The next seven sets...

...and this one includes Pouch Creatures. Hopefully everyone following these find them interesting and a way to track the distribution/rarity of some of the items.








Another ten sets, getting closer

Getting closer to having all the sets up. Here are another ten sets, and this one has WallaBee's First Christmas, which was my first set to complete. Another interesting tidbit is that the set id number for this is #1, so it looks like Ben and crew likely designed this as their first set (also based on the low numbered item id's) and then held out releasing it until Christmas time. Looks like they also added Santa's reindeer's and Rudolph later when they released the set.

Enjoy











Thursday, August 29, 2013

The next set of graphs

Here are another ten set of graphs. It's been very interesting to see how all these compare to each other scrolling up and down this page.











Graphs for next ten sets

Ok, here are the graphs for the next ten sets. This one includes the graph for the Eggception set, which I was most interested in seeing, being that it's very hard just to get a TD for some of the items in this set.











WallaBee Item Stats

I have been playing the geo location based game WallaBee for a couple months now. It took me a few days to get the hang of it, and once I finally figured out how to store items in sets (rather than trying to collect the whole set in your pouch), I was off and running. A while back I ran into some perl scripts that were using the WallaBee API. I downloaded those and got them working and then started writing some of my own to more easily answer some of the questions I was coming up with related to WallaBee items and users. Out of that came the following stats on WallaBee items.

Many users are trying to get their average item number down to a certain level. Say, all items sub 200, or all DD (double digit) items. So I was curious where all these low numbered items were so wrote a script to get where the first 250 numbers were located for each item. From that I generated these graphs that I thought would be interesting for some people.

They show the distribution of the first 250 numbers within the different sets. As you can see some of the items look like they are above the 250 mark and others are below. This is because some of the items can be owned and locked, others are at locations and are locked, and lastly there are some items that just don't seem to exist. These may be hidden items, which some hidden items are shown on the graph, but I have not quite figured the other ones out yet. The most interesting thing to me on these graphs is to see how many of the lower numbered items were mixed in the earlier sets and are no longer available. So that makes some of the set items MUCH harder to collect the lower numbers because of their rarity.

After starting to collect this data I see that many players are now working on getting all their items sub-1000. So I guess it might be good to run these again sometime in the future for the first 1000 items (but they can take a while to run :). So we'll see. In the mean time if you have any questions, suggestions, comments, etc., just let me know.

Here are the graphs for the first eight sets:









Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Didn't have a spot to post anything related to all the geo location games that I play, so decided to get this site. Don't count on me posting much, but hopefully will have tidbits of information here and there that I can post. And most of the posts on this site will relate to the geo location games that I like to play which currently are:
Geocaching This is the first geo location game that I started playing. Still actively playing and the top geo location game that I play.
Munzee Started playing this a while ago. Not a bad game, but there are not many player or locations around where I live. So I grab them when I can.
WallaBee This geo location game has really got me hooked. A fun collectible game that came out of Gowalla (which I never played before it quit) and everyone says is much better :).