EMF Camp 2024 is over and so we must analyse the stats from this year’s PolyGen game!
General Stats
- Total players: 620
- Total players scoring over 1,000 points: 485
- Total unit captures: 7,653
- Total unit visits: 8,494
- Total output boosts: 1,231
- Players who set a codename: 58
- Players too lazy to set a codename: 562
- Maximum Units Online: 26
- Units Stolen: 1 (Cheltenham Hack Space - Unit 09)
- Players Completed Capture The Flag: 1
- Player reusing tokens from previous events: 18
- Players who played EMF 2022, MCH 2022 and EMF 2024: 3
Some players decided it was good to use a payment card to play:
- Total payment cards used: 32
- Unidentified Type: 20
- Mastercard: 3
- Mastercard Debit: 6
- Visa: 1
- Visa Debit: 1
- Visa Credit: 1
The game records which audio clip it played to the player when they registered. It doesn’t save any card information or try to access the payment applications on the cards, it just queries the 2PAY.SYS file to see which payment applications exist on the card. It doesn’t try hard, and gives up quickly if it can’t. This is why most cards are simply identified as payment cards. Players who used a payment card would have heard something like “Visa Debit card accepted, authorising donation to Polybius Biotech please wait… Just kidding.”.
Team Stats
| Team Name | Total Players | Highest Single Capture Score | Team Score | Team Visits | Total Unique Player Visits | Total Captures | Total Player Unique Captures | Average Player Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GFY Corporation | 92 | 20970 | 1431562 | 1113 | 552 | 1154 | 498 | 15560 |
| Malevolant Enterprises | 236 | 69391 | 4173584 | 3179 | 1566 | 2743 | 1220 | 17685 |
| Nefaridyne Group | 111 | 34492 | 1290988 | 1292 | 733 | 1273 | 655 | 11631 |
| 181 | 65592 | 3210173 | 2910 | 1298 | 2483 | 1068 | 17736 |
Units by total captures.
Unsurprisingly the Null Sector units were amongst the most popular.
| Unit Name | Total Captures |
|---|---|
| Null Sector - Cybar | 664 |
| Null Sector - Entrance | 659 |
| Null Sector - Tree 1 | 625 |
| Null Sector - Poly Tunnel | 526 |
| Hackey Racers Tree | 523 |
| Food Area Tree | 506 |
| Null Sector - Night Market | 426 |
| Badge Tent | 407 |
| Null Sector - Dance Floor | 343 |
| Robot Arms | 317 |
| Amsat | 268 |
| 1st Thacham Scouts | 257 |
| Milliways Tree | 238 |
| Arcade | 235 |
| Irish Embasy | 216 |
| Entrance | 211 |
| Cheltenham Hack Space | 207 |
| Logistics | 206 |
| Scottish Consulate | 199 |
| Lake by EMF Sign | 173 |
| PolyGen Home Base | 121 |
| East Essex Hack Space | 96 |
| ECHQ | 85 |
| Nix Camp | 67 |
| GCHQ | 64 |
| 2016’s Worst Village | 14 |
Top 10 Players
| Player Name | Total Score | Team Name |
|---|---|---|
| ScaryLooking | 1210764 | Malevolant Enterprises |
| [Two-Gun Kid] | 507946 | |
| Goibler | 331303 | Malevolant Enterprises |
| [Black Knight] | 319553 | |
| [Lightspeed] | 257891 | Nefaridyne Group |
| [Ultimatum] | 206219 | GFY Corporation |
| Frazzle | 204596 | GFY Corporation |
| Jonnyw2k | 185610 | |
| [Captain Midlands] | 175565 | GFY Corporation |
| cowlol | 147673 |
Unit Battery Monitoring
Each unit reports its battery voltage regularly. The following shows how each unit was doing, and as you can see, one unit wasn’t fully charged when deployed!
You can also access the more interactive version if the game server is online on https://scores.gen.polyb.io/public/question/cfbd2dd6-aacf-4635-9c4a-75c9167fff4a
Very pleased to report that they still had a fair bit of power left even at the end of the event. Except the Cheltenham Hack Space unit, which went offline around 9am on Sunday and wasn’t seen again!
Units are regarded as low battery and start sending alerts when they reach 3.35 volts. When they reach 3.05 volts they are regarded as depleted and will power off. There is a secondary protection built into the power regulator that will shutdown when the battery voltage drops to 2.5 volts. Thankfully no recharging was required!
Other Stats
I’ll try and update the stats and export to a Google Doc as I did in 2022 so you can have a bit of a play around with the data if you’re interested. This will take a little longer to export, so will appear over the next few days.