What is a rooms pop detail used for?

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#1

A room’s details look like this:

{
    'area': None,
	'autosweep': False,
	'autosweepDelay': 0,
	'chars': {'rid': 'core.room.cj5poc54tae1prqrvkjg.chars'},
	'desc': 'a quiet room.',
	'exits': {'rid': 'core.room.cj5poc54tae1prqrvkjg.exits'},
	'id': 'cj5poc54tae1prqrvkjg',
	'image': None,
	'isDark': False,
	'isHome': False,
	'isQuiet': True,
	'isTeleport': False,
	'mapX': 0,
	'mapY': 0,
	'name': 'Quiet Room',
	'owner': {'rid': 'core.char.cad887m9gbrpjn98berg'},
	'pop': 2,
	'private': False
}

Of course, a lot of them make sense, except for ‘pop’

would anybody be able to give me any insight as to what this is?

#2

Pretty sure that the population (how many people are in the room)? @farcaller might know better.

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#3

pop is the character count in the room/area, prv is the character count in the hidden rooms within the area.

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#4

ah, is prv omitted by default if there are no hidden rooms?

#5

if there are no hidden pops, rather.

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#6

Shin and Far are mostly correct. But prv is not omitted if zero.

The reason why you don’t see it, is because prv doesn’t exist for rooms; it is only set for areas (core.area.$areaId.details).
A room cannot have a private population in itself. Only areas may have a population inside private rooms.

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