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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Demigodrick@lemmy.zip to c/thebutton@lemmy.zip

The Button - Season 2 Stats

Winner: Green Faction

Green held the button the longest, narrowly beating Purple by just 2 minutes and 50 seconds.

Game Overview

Stat Value
Game Duration 16h 23m 35s
Total Players 244
Players Who Pressed 205
Total Button Presses 242
Chat Messages 1,549
Unique Chatters 99
Referred Players 14

Faction Standings

Rank Faction Time Held Share Players Presses
1st Green 4h 31m 34s 27.6% 67 64
2nd Purple 4h 28m 44s 27.3% 79 76
3rd Blue 4h 14m 10s 25.8% 54 53
4th Red 3h 9m 6s 19.2% 44 49

Achievement Badge Holders

Badge Player Achievement
๐Ÿฅ‡ First Presser @weddingcrasher@lemmy.zip First to press the button
๐Ÿ Latest Presser @skipwappallypap@lemmy.world Last player to press
โšก Fastest Reaction @nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 129ms reaction time
๐Ÿ›ก Last-Second Save @tamlyn@lemmy.zip Pressed at 1.16s remaining
๐Ÿ” Mystery Solver @solace@lemmy.blahaj.zone Found the easter egg

Top 5 Closest Saves

Player Faction Timer Remaining
@tamlyn@lemmy.zip Purple 1.16s
@tamlyn@lemmy.zip Purple 2.25s
@hellhound1@lemmy.world Purple 4.22s
@birne@feddit.org Blue 5.25s
@lvxferre@mander.xyz Red 6.84s

Top 5 Fastest Reactions

Player Faction Reaction Time
@nusm@peachpie.theatl.social Green 129ms
@merdaverse@lemmy.zip Red 372ms
@sebas@lemmy.zip Purple 688ms
@allero@lemmy.today Blue 856ms
@susaga@sh.itjust.works Green 987ms

Most Active Chatters

Player Faction Messages
@calmblue75@lemmy.ml Blue 201
@allero@lemmy.today Blue 96
@mschae@discuss.mschae23.de Green 77
@solace@lemmy.blahaj.zone Purple 59
@demigodrick@lemmy.zip Green 59

Top Referrer

@deathbybigsad@sh.itjust.works (Purple) referred 7 players

Press Activity by Hour (UTC)

Time Block Presses
Apr 5, 12:00 25
Apr 5, 13:00 20
Apr 5, 14:00 19
Apr 5, 15:00 16
Apr 5, 16:00 24
Apr 5, 17:00 15
Apr 5, 18:00 10
Apr 5, 19:00 11
Apr 5, 20:00 6
Apr 5, 21:00 16
Apr 5, 22:00 17
Apr 5, 23:00 14
Apr 6, 00:00 9
Apr 6, 01:00 11
Apr 6, 02:00 13
Apr 6, 03:00 11
Apr 6, 04:00 5

The opening hour saw 25 presses as players rushed to claim the button. Activity stayed strong through the afternoon (15โ€“25 presses/hour) before tapering off overnight. The timer finally ran out at 04:23 UTC on April 6 after a quiet stretch with just 5 presses in the final hour.

Fun Facts

  • The average timer value at press was 10m 59s - most players pressed well before the 15-minute deadline
  • 13 presses were made with less than 60 seconds on the clock
  • 39 players registered but never pressed the button
  • The margin between 1st and 2nd place was just 2 minutes 50 seconds out of 16+ hours
  • Purple had the most players (79) and most presses (76) but still came 2nd
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[-] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

New feature: Timeline

Review everything that happened throughout the Season, including chat:

Under leaderboard -> timeline

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Wait when did this happen?!

[-] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Started just over 24 hours ago! Sadly finished earlier on.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

We need a long term marathon thing...

Like lengthen the timer before the button "dies", and make the goal of trying to keep this "torch" lit for an entire year

This is more interesting than the olympics

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

Initially I was going to join green, but the game didn't let me, so... red it is! Lost again, but it was still fun :-D (I'm in the statistics! Yay!)

Timeline seems like a great idea.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OKAY NEW IDEA:

Make the timer longer... like 30 minutes...

BUT:

Your team must wait until the button gets pressed by 2 different teams before one of your team members can press it again!

So

Purple Presses --> Red, Blue, or Green must press within 30 minutes to keep it aluve

Red Presses --> Blue, or Green must press within 30 minutes to keep it alive

Green Presses --> Purple, or Blue must press within 30 minutes to keep it alive

The point of this is to force teams to be more balanced... I mean people wanna keep the game going for as long as they can, right? That's the fun of the game

[-] vogi@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago
[-] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

It will be back!

[-] wjs018@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

It's really interesting that both season 1 and season 2 lasted almost exactly as long as one another. That is even after everybody got a second press within the first 24 hours to try to help carry it over until the button refresh happened. It really shows that there aren't enough users active in that timezone to help it through to the next day.

[-] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

so we need to get japan on board for another time zone. So first, translate the page to japanese, would help and second get mastodon, misskey on board, because there are quite a few japanes people. I would be interested if there was even one mastodon user participating? I have only seen lemmy, piefed user. Or maybe contact the poeple from the australian lemmy server, they not that big, but better than nothing

[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

S1 actually finished about four hours earlier than S2 but the numbers are showing wrong (perhaps fixed by now).

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