Daily Archives: July 12, 2006

More death storms

Holy crap, the national weather service mentioned the development I live in!

* AT 1048 PM EDT… NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TWIN RIVERS… OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF TRENTON… AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

And they didn’t issue the warning until 10:51, which didn’t arrive in my inbox ’til 10:52. Thanks for telling me what I could already hear 4 minutes ago, NWS.

Edit: The storm was so distracting I forgot my point. ‘Twin Rivers’ is awfully specific for a NWS alert, why not mention the town that Twin Rivers is in? As much as TR likes to think otherwise, they’re still just a development inside a larger town 😛

Random Stats

Here are some interesting statistics from the DCSquares score database:

General Stats

  • Total users that have submitted a score: 373
  • Total games played: 50,097
  • Total squares collected: 1,042,625
  • Total time spent playing: 34 days (note: scores entered through the website do not record a time, so this is actually higher)
  • Average games played per user: 138
  • Average number of squares collected per game: 38
  • Average score per game: 28,235
  • Average combo per game: 45
  • Average game time: 58 seconds

Players by platform

  • Windows: 50%
  • Mac: 48%
  • Linux: 2%
  • Dreamcast: 0% (only 23 scores ever submitted for Dreamcast)

Hall of fame:

  • Highest score: DrunkenAryan scored 645,233 points
  • Highest combo: spam collected 333 squares in a row
  • Most squares: Harryfronman collected 620 squares
  • Longest time: jason survived for 16:47 minutes

Hall of shame:

  • Lowest score: csp scored 1,002 points (scores below 1,000 are rejected)
  • Shortest time: mozza survived for 2 seconds

12 players only collected 1 square but managed to score more than 1000 points.
99% of players use the in-game score client, only 1% of scores were entered through the web.