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@wadbot's random level picks rely on a precomputed index of all the files in the idgames archive. Every month or so I update my local mirror of that archive and run WADbot's "update DB" script which scans the new ZIP files, finds all the levels1 in each, and adds them to the index.
I updated the index just now, and the total count of legit2 levels is currently at 59,997.
Of course, this doesn't include the probably thousands of levels that:
- were never uploaded anywhere
- perished with the CompuServe archive
- are/were only available as forum attachments, eg on Doomworld
- are/were only available on some file hosting site like megaupload (if any of yours are in this category, please put them on a more reliable host somewhere!!)
I would guess that the total number of levels in those categories number at least 10% of the size of the ~60k on the idgames archive. So maybe at some point recently or soon we crossed the 66,666 levels mark. Congrats, everyone.
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Index entries are levels, not WADs; if it were the latter, then eg a 32-level megaWAD would be just as likely to be chosen as a single-level WAD, and thus the more numerous contents of the former would be less likely to get picked, which would be a shame because multi-level sets are a huge % of the community's best work.
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This excludes two troll WADs that include 30k and 100k identical empty maps each.
