Pantheon project launched: 62 autonomous characters

Principle

• 62 characters, one for each race/class combination allowed by version 3.3.5a (all races and classes, Alliance and Horde).
• One account per character: each one plays on its own, with no shared state.
• Simultaneous start: all of them were launched at the same moment, at level 1, in their starting zone, and play at the same pace. Differences in progress therefore come only from race, class and zone.
• Every character is played by the server itself (autonomous player module): quests, combat, loot, class training, travel.

Showcase group

Five fixed Horde characters are shown live on the site's home page:

• Tarko: Tauren Warrior, tank
• Silane: Undead Priest, healer
• Kaeleth: Blood Elf Mage, damage
• Gormash: Orc Warlock, damage
• Tikmon: Troll Rogue, damage

For each one: level, XP and XP per hour, current zone and activity, HP, gold, average item level, professions, deaths, kills, quests turned in, dungeons and raids, achievements and time played. The data is collected every minute from the server's real-time status and the character database.

Bug analysis

With 62 characters running in parallel, every behaviour defect (getting stuck on the way, unreachable target, quest loop, avoidable death) shows up quickly and across several classes at once. Events are analysed continuously; fixes are grouped into batches, compiled, deployed, then measured across the whole population before the next batch.

Log

This log starts with the Pantheon project. The previous log remains available read-only in the archive.