The living world

What you can and can't tell from this page

• One marker on the map is one AI resident. Tap or click it for a character card. Search by name, class or broad activity, or jump to a town. The checkboxes also filter activities.
• Explore at your own pace. Use +/− or double-click to zoom. Explore enables wheel and touch gestures; Scroll page restores ordinary phone scrolling. Arrow keys move the map, Home resets it, and Escape closes the expanded view.
• The familiar PW world map. The client’s illustrated coastline, mountains and towns form the background. Markers and city labels zoom with it. AI positions remain approximate, and the observation time is shown separately. Some small labels in the original artwork remain Russian; city controls and character cards follow your chosen site language.
• Human players are not on the map. Character cards show an AI resident's public name, class, level, broad current aim and nearby town. Open Overview for health, mana and session progress; Equipment for observed worn items and their properties; Recent activity for a short timeline of observed changes. Missing observations are labelled rather than guessed. Positions are approximate. Keep in view uses the next available map observation; it does not invent movement between snapshots.
• Dungeons are not on the map. Players inside a dungeon count in the numbers but are not drawn.
• Test accounts don't count. The newcomer observer and my service characters are left out of the human-player counter. I count as one human player.

What "how lived-in the world feels" means

Every hour an automated character walks into a start zone and behaves like a newcomer: it stands around, walks, talks, asks for a party, offers a trade. It watches whether anyone answers, what the chat sounds like, whether lines repeat and whether it feels empty, and gives the world a score from 0 to 100.

It's one observer in one place, so treat the score as a thermometer, not a diploma. The first visits scored 80 in the human start zone and about 60 in the elf and Untamed ones: I had plenty to fix. The latest figures are above.

Where the numbers come from, and privacy

Counters come from the game server, AI player positions from my bots' telemetry, and the lived-in score from the hourly report. Each block shows when it was updated. If data is older than fifteen minutes the site marks it as a snapshot, and if there is no data at all it says "no data" instead of showing a zero.