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The Deadman's Shadow community bar in the the zOMG! forum is a progress bar that, when completed, temporarily opens up Deadman's Shadow in zOMG. The area will typically remain open for around 72 hours, close and reset, and then repeat. To determine how much progress has been made, we use a SUPER SECRET HACKER ALGORITHM which is explained in detail here:

Panagrammic


Basically, we're looking at the following things as filling up the community bar:

  • number of forum posts
  • number of visitors coming in (either via Google, searching on "zomg", or from zomg.com)
  • number of guests playing zOMG
  • sales in the cash shop


Basically, we took traffic levels pre-DMS and normalize that so that each number is 100 if it equals pre DMS levels.

every day, we take the normalized value for the four different values, and add them together:

(forum_posts + visitors + guests + 2 * sales ) / 5

when the summary of daily values == 800, DMS is opened.

For example, let's say that:
- forum posts = 50% more
- visitors = 50% more
- guests = 50% more
- cash = 0% more (baseline)

the daily result is (150 + 150 + 150 + 200) / 5 = 130 points
so if this were maintained for 6 days, the community bar would open up

Why did we do it this way? We admittedly bias a little towards the cash shop to encourage that, but also allow non-cash factors to play in it.


All users will be able to access Deadman's Shadow when the bar is full. Get in while you can 3nodding