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2/15/2013 2:24:06 AM
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I think an issue may be the way the nodes light up. If Australia is as key a piece as we think it is, even with a good turnout from the area we may end up not lighting up the proper sector because Australia's population is pretty much entirely coastal. We'd always be missing the middle of whatever sector they light up.
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So where dealing with some kind of rotating globe with activity "markers"?
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Yes - it's hard to see because it's heavily factaled
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That's ok - if we could get a straight line of people from the North Pole to the south refreshing constantly we'd eventually get it because the geomask rotates east to west.
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I still don't think it rotates based off of time. If it did we would have seen some today. It has consistently been highlighting the upper left and bottom right corners. My bet is still on the dots represent a vector between every two people currently active on the server.
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It definitely rotates. Or rather shifts. You can see it in this gif compiled from Day 0's activity.
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Not all of them rotate, a lot of them appear and then disappear. I think what is being seen there is a shift in the visits. The past two days we have expected a rotation and it has not been seen like this. I think on day 1 the hype was so much and the interest so high that there were just a steady stream of outlying views either from the north or south of the bulk of visits.
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So you think it's a coincidence that the top cluster roughly takes the shape of the US?
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That's not what I'm saying. I think it should take the shape of the US. I think that each person makes a dot on a map on Bungie's server. Then from each of those dots a vector is calculated representing direction and magnitude to every other dot. If only two people are on one in SF and one in Seattle you would see three dots. A single dot in the center one at the 12 o'clock position and one at the 6 o'clock position with the same length (the length would likely not be very large) because from each person to themselves the length is 0 but from SF to Seattle it's almost a straight north shot but in reference to the length of the world it isn't very far. So if someone in Greenland visited during a time at which someone in every major city in the US was active you would see (roughly) the shape of the US at 2 o'clock position and an upside down version of the US at the 8 o'clock position. If someone in Russia or Alaska did it you would see the US at 11 o'clock and 5 o'clock.
