The 9th Vana'diel Census (06/22/2009)

[The Q]

Today we bring you the 9th Vana'diel Census, which marks the seventh anniversary of FINAL FANTASY XI.
In addition to the familiar information, we've mixed in data from the preliminary survey to dig deep and show the true face of the community.
Other fascinating never-before-seen statistics such as how merit points are used and the number of players who have earned one of the coveted mythic weapons are also included!

The 9th Vana'diel Census can be found here.

Surprised this hasn't been posted.

[Izzy]

I love that all of their charts and graphs since the beginning of time have no scales whatsoever.

[Titanss]

cool story

bro

[Aristio]

I found the linkshell color information to be the most interesting. And at least we know some people aren't hiding their mythic weapon on certain jobs.

[Reapz]

Always an interesting read, was nice that they put merit points in

[Therin]

I love that all of their charts and graphs since the beginning of time have no scales whatsoever.

Gonna change my relic to Ragnarok so that I don't look like bandwagoner.

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Okay, not really.

[Neosutra]

Looks like we missed a few Mythics.

Also lol @ twice as many Aegis's as any other relic.

They need to add a chart that says "Number of satisfied people after GM has answered their call", right after the GM call statistics.

[Rena]

Magical accuracy merits are now physical accuracy? Good job SE.

[Zerv]

43 Mythics already..

[Weeks]

How many of them have quit in disgust though?

[Izzy]

How many of them have quit in disgust though?

Better question is how many were banned for duping alex.

[isladar]

Strangely, we've found that players avoid making goose-shit, pink, and new-born baby doodie coloured linkpearls.

[Fogo]

I thought the merit information was pretty interesting; I was honestly surprised by the number of people that merit evasion though.

[Lonewind]

Physical Potency + Physical Accuracy XD

[Karbuncle]

That Chart with Combat Skill is BS!

I have 1 Staff Merit ....... Lawl

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Thanks for posting. This is going to be strange reading without hearing the POL music in the background.

@isladar I almost choked on my breakfast muffin when I read your fine assortment of pearl color names. :D

[Suiram]

"Physical Accuracy" is probably someone at SE's eyes getting tired after entering in 200 lines of data for those charts. A bigger wtf in the BLU section is whoever out there has any merits in Monster Correlation, let alone two.

[Kriz]

I was, deep down, hoping to see the number of completed relics for a rarer type (like BST/Staff/Polearm) drop and see them talk around it.

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Anyone notice the paragraph about play time is repeated or am I missing something?

[ronin sparthos]

Lol still no Gastraphetes completed.

I like the merit breakdowns and am surprised at the amount of Ebisus.