Hey everyone,
I just wanted to make a quick post about the total number of NPCs living in Elite Dangerous.
tl;dr: There are currently 6,612,313,733,791 NPCs as system population! That's it.
Longer version:
The number isn't completly accurate because it's based on eddb.io data, so it depends on when a system was last updated.
But I think it's reasonable to assume that it's somewhere around 6.612 trillion NPCs.
How I got that number:
Easy, just downloaded the data from eddb.io. Here are the bash commands I used (linux user here, so command line is my first way to solve problems).
Credits:
Olivia Vespera - original idea, got me to calc the number
eddb.io - providing the data
community - filling eddb with data
I just wanted to make a quick post about the total number of NPCs living in Elite Dangerous.
tl;dr: There are currently 6,612,313,733,791 NPCs as system population! That's it.
Longer version:
The number isn't completly accurate because it's based on eddb.io data, so it depends on when a system was last updated.
But I think it's reasonable to assume that it's somewhere around 6.612 trillion NPCs.
How I got that number:
Easy, just downloaded the data from eddb.io. Here are the bash commands I used (linux user here, so command line is my first way to solve problems).
Code:
#!/bin/env bash
wget https://eddb.io/archive/v5/systems_populated.jsonl
cat systems_populated.jsonl | sed "s/.*\"population\"\://g;s/\,\".*//g" > popnum
awk '{ sum += $1 } END { print sum }' popnums
Credits:
Olivia Vespera - original idea, got me to calc the number
eddb.io - providing the data
community - filling eddb with data