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: