How long and how often my character must be online to appear in RookStat?

Just play with he (she) for at least 15 minutes. He (She) will be detected by our robot and added to database. Once added to database you don't need to play anymore! Your character will always be updated in our database after that.

My character upleveled but it is not shown in RookStat.

RookStat makes partial updates every 15 minutes. Partial means that online characters are updated only. If you uplevel and logout between robot scans your up will not be detected. But don´t you worry! Full updates are made at Mon, Wed and Fri, and your character doesn’t need to be online for that! Well, can’t you wait for so long? (2 days!) Just logon and play for at least 15 minutes. 

What happens when I go to mainland?

If you go to mainland this means that you are not interested in Rookgaard anymore, thus you are automatically deleted from RookStat ranks. Rookstat has a different point of view about deleted characters (see Rookstat's retirement policy). 

RookStat's retirement policy: When you reach high level in Rookgaard, amongst top 100, RookStat assumes you become a legend. Because of that your character remains in the rank even if  he/she has been deleted (retired). You stay there, with a 'retired' mark, while you are a top 100. However, if many players overcome your level, and you fall under the top 100, your character is automatically deleted from ranks. In other words, you are not a legend anymore...

They show  upgrades and downgrades in the current week. Green up triangle () means uplevel and red down triangles () means downlevel. The number of up/downgraded levels are next the marks.

You need at least 2 uplevels after 04 Jan 2006 (when measurements started) to have your evolution rate calculated. You need also at least 24h between the first uplevel and the last (read next question for more details). If you die you are also out of evolution rates and 2 or more new uplevels are required with a total spent time greater than 24h.

Rookstat scans Tibia worlds every 15 min, when an uplevel is detected for a character the time is stored in a file. When a second uplevel is detected RookStat calculates the experience points required for that evolution and the total time spent since the first uplevel occurred. With these two numbers the evolution rate is simply xp/time. Therefore the evolution rate is an avarege evolution rate within the spent time to uplevel. 

The evolution rate is calculated only if the spent time to uplevel is higher than 24h. If such time is lower than 24h RookStat keeps the first entry and wait for the next uplevel until a total time greater than 24h is reached. Therefore high levels are not so much affected by the long time spent to uplevel in comparison with low level characters. 

Since the error in time can be as great as 30 min (scans occur every 15 min) the error in evolution rates are, 2% for 1 day, less than 0,3% for 1 week and less than 0,07% for 1 month. Other error sources are, logout without uplevel detection and website offlines. Both drop down the calculated evolution rates, but they are not frequent and not for all characters.

The ranking is intended to measure the guild forces present in the island. Thus only rookstayers ranked in RookStat are counted. Rookgaard guilds have all members in the island and so they are more powerful than guilds from mainland with few members in Rookgaard.

When a new character is added to the data base its account can not be determined and so it remains "unclear" until the next full update. Your account information can stay "unclear" for 2 days.

What are those "smilles" next some names?

They mark insomniacs based on Pskonejott website. Every online entry of 21 hours or more is recorded forever in the "insomniacs list" of Pskonejott (click in the to see the insomnia entries of players) . When you perform a character search in Pskonejott site it shows every insomniacs entry that has been recorded for a player.