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Poll: Okay serious Poll question  [closed]
Instantaneous:  31%
(4 Votes)
24-hour period:  69%
(9 Votes)
Total Votes: 13

Was the Halo 3 population counter recorded daily or instanteously? Meaning that if we saw 100,000 people on the counter, would that be at the very moment (give or take 30 minutes-1 hour) or in the course of 24 hours?

I've always remembered it to be instantaneous, but some say otherwise. In fact i'm confident it's instantaneous.

[Edited on 12.03.2012 5:46 PM PST]

  • 12.03.2012 5:34 PM PDT

It fluctuated but it was not instantaneous.

[Edited on 12.03.2012 5:36 PM PST]

  • 12.03.2012 5:36 PM PDT

The latter option

  • 12.03.2012 5:38 PM PDT

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
~M.D~

24 hour period I think

  • 12.03.2012 5:40 PM PDT
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I do not want to stop asking. I do not ask to stop wanting.

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  • 12.03.2012 5:40 PM PDT

really.... :/

How did you find this out? I wish a Bungie employee could answer this

  • 12.03.2012 5:40 PM PDT

There once was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died.

The end.

SCFH

i do believe it is a 24 hour period.

  • 12.03.2012 5:40 PM PDT

I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted.

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Gach rud mo creideamh ea etfilu Dia.

24 hour period.

  • 12.03.2012 5:41 PM PDT

Was there a time when it was instantaneous? It may have changed to daily count a couple years down the road...?

Or was ... ?

:(

  • 12.03.2012 5:42 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

I would think the game would be much slower if the counter had to count every time people left or joined the game, so it's probably set to count at intervals.

  • 12.03.2012 5:43 PM PDT


Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
I would think the game would be much slower if the counter had to count every time people left or joined the game, so it's probably set to count at intervals.


Yeah perhaps not instantaneously but like every 30 minutes or so.

  • 12.03.2012 5:43 PM PDT

24 Hour

  • 12.03.2012 5:45 PM PDT

wow, where is everyone getting this from?

  • 12.03.2012 6:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: Drunky1993
wow, where is everyone getting this from?


From Bungie.

  • 12.03.2012 6:09 PM PDT

I always thought it was a 24-hour counter here on Bnet, but in game it was more or less instantaneous.

  • 12.03.2012 6:12 PM PDT


Posted by: huskyguy
I always thought it was a 24-hour counter here on Bnet, but in game it was more or less instantaneous.


Yeah that's what I mean. In-game. Not on bungie.net. Cuz I kept seeing populations change every time I finished a match in matchmaking.

  • 12.03.2012 6:14 PM PDT

During it's prime I remember the population counter would change in between every game I played.

  • 12.03.2012 6:20 PM PDT


Posted by: iTWi2Tid
During it's prime I remember the population counter would change in between every game I played.


Whew...! It's good that i'm not losing my head lol.

  • 12.03.2012 6:22 PM PDT