Camelot Flow Documentation

Overview

See the main page for some example graphs such as this one in the Coruscating Mines of Hibernia. The below documentation breaks this example graph into its main subcomponents and describes each one.

Experience Flow Graph

Understanding this graph:

• The horizontal axis is time -- in this case from around 9:15pm (21:15) to 12:15am (00:15)
• The vertical axis is average experience flow per minute. The labels on the left show the actual experience (xp/min) -- up to 16 million experience points per minute at the highest point on this graph. On the right are the experience caps per minute (XPCaps/min) labels. An experience cap is simply the absolute xp/min normalized to the current player level, making it easier to compare experience flow across different character levels. This normalization is done by dividing the xp/min by the experience cap for a person of the current level (level 36 in this example).
• Another definition of "experience cap" is simply the experience you would get for a single mob of your current level (i.e., the highest yellow) plus 25%.
• The five graph lines are independent. They show experience flow per minute averaged over five different time periods -- 2 min, 5 min, 10 min, 30 min, and the entire session. For example, at around 21:30, the average experience per minute over the previous 5 minutes (green line) was just over 9 million experience per minute (i.e. a total of 45 million xp between 21:25 and 21:30). Ending at the same point in time (21:30), the xpflow averaged over the previous 10 minutes was around 7 million per minute.
• The peak xpflow per minute is highlighted for each time period with a colored bar and shaded background. Look at the bar for the total period length because sometimes the backgrounds overlap each other and are obscured. So in this example, the peak experience flow over any 30 minute period in the night occurred between about 23:13 and 23:43.
• The text at the top of the graph shows the actual peak number (e.g. 0.92 xpcaps/min for the 30 minute time window). It also shows which mobs were killed during that time period (e.g. 38 mobs of levels 47-52 with an average level of 49), followed by the types of mobs killed during that peak window, sorted by quantity killed.
• Four types of point in time events currently are marked with vertical lines and labels: (though none occurred in this example)
  • Entering a zone (e.g., >Sheeroe Hills)
  • Entering a region (i.e. a town) (e.g., >Mag Mell)
  • Leaving a region (i.e. a town) (e.g., <Mag Mell)
  • Player gaining a level (e.g., Level 40)
• Three types of time span events are currently marked: (two are in this example)
  • Gray background with black bar at top and bottom: Log was off during this time period. This most often shows up after zoning, which can happen when entering or leaving a dungeon or releasing. Unfortunately dungeon names are not available in the log.
  • Gray background with orange bar at top and bottom: Player died and was resurrected by another player at the end of the gray time span.
  • Gray background with red bar at top and bottom: Player died and released at the end of the gray time span.

Party Size Graph

• Each graph's horizontal axis is the same shared time axis (shown under the experience flow graph).
• The vertical axis in the party size graph is the size of the party at the time each mob was killed (from 1 to 8). This is estimated and sometimes wrong (to be improved later).
• If the party size show is wrong, the mob level shown (in the next graph) will be wrong also!

Mob Level Graph

• Each graph's horizontal axis is the same shared time axis (shown under the experience flow graph).
• The vertical axis on this graph is the estimated level of each mob that was killed. In this case they ranged from 35 to 52.
• The color of the dot indicates the con color of the mob for a player of the level entered (36 in this case). The con colors can be green, blue, yellow, orange, red, or purple (you get no experience for gray mobs). If a dot is white it means the mob was at least the level shown (51 or 52 on this graph) but that the player hit the experience cap for their current level.
• The bottom yellowish row (labeled with a ?) is for mobs of an unknown level.
• Mob levels can sometimes be wrong -- this will most likely be the case if your party size changed by a certain amount during the session.

Mob Type & Bonus Graph

• Each graph's horizontal axis is the same shared time axis (shown under the experience flow graph).
• This "snake graph" shows the type of mob killed at each point in time as well as camp and group bonus.
• The position of each mob dot on the vertical axis DOES NOT HAVE MEANING other than showing the order in which the mobs were killed (as they snake up and down in order of when they were killed). This makes it easier to see how many were killed than if they were all in a straight line, as they would overlap much more then.
• The color of each plot corresponds to one of the mob names in the list at the bottom (the colors get reused in the same order if there are more mob types than available unique colors).
• The mob name list at the bottom is in the order of which the first mob of that type was killed.
• Mobs of unknown name/type are shown in black (if they are all unknown make sure you turn on "others deaths" and "drops" in your log output!)
• The mob list shows level range and average (e.g. weeweres killed during the entire session ranged from level 48-52+ and the average level was 49).
• A plus in a level number (e.g., "52+") means that the mob was at least that level, perhaps higher (the player experience cap was hit).
• If a mob plot has a stick on the top it means a camp bonus was awarded. A stick underneath means a group bonus was awarded.
• The second graph "behind" shows the relative size of each camp and group bonus (think of it as a "shadow" of the mob plots). Camp bonuses rise above the middle line, group bonuses hang below the middle line. Camp bonuses range from 0 to 50%, and group bonuses from 0 to about 80%.
• All the graphs line up, so look up from this graph to the mob level graph to see the level of a given mob.