Match lengths (in time)

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Now that we've played >2000 matches, I have some decent data on how long it takes to play a match of Nations asynchronously, depending on player count.

Here are the median number of days to play a match for matches that lasted more than 24 hours and finished at all:

2-player: 7
3-player: 22
4-player: 44
5-player: 59
6-player: 104

Here are the min and max:

2-player: 1-180
3-player: 1-149
4-player: 1-193
5-player: 21-126
6-player: 40-258

I'll probably add a histogram later.

I'm thinking it might be good to add a warning to match creation and joining that lets people know what to expect in terms of endurance.

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Here are the histograms with about 2000 matches completed. These show the ceiling of the number of weeks matches took at each player count, for matches that took at least one week. Bars with height zero are not shown, so the times along the right tail jump in value. There is far less data for 5-player and 6-player, so those haven't yet taken a Gaussian form.

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And here's the ceiling of days for 2-player, for matches that took at least 1 day.

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