Topic: Accounts online counter

Add an "accounts online counter" somewhere in the login screen.

Reasons:

- People take Gen Chat numbers as "population count" (despite everyone leaving or being told to leave Gen Chat the moment they get in a real corp)
- People take Steamchart numbers as "population count" (despite most vets not bothering to link their accounts to their steam accounts)
- Players typically have 2+ accounts, artificially inflating the actual population.

TL;DR

An actual official counter would show higher population then the common unofficial alternatives. The genchat/steamchart variants already actively discourage people from playing, a counter on the login screen would be worth it if it encouraged one person to play because it's 50 accounts online instead of 5 in genchat.

2 (edited by Chemist 2015-11-14 16:22:44)

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+100500

Make it today, please. 8-]

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+1.  it cant hurt at this point.

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+1
It would be interesting to know the real online count smile

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Depending on how frequently it woudl update this would form another intel channel. Also there is a signifcant amount of players where multiple accounts online still means just 1 player playing.  The representation would not be guaranteed to be more accurate.

Alternative suggestion: allow anon spectating in general chat where your identity is not shown.

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our squad chat was at 53 today.  General chat was at 19.

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Ville wrote:

our squad chat was at 53 today.  General chat was at 19.

That's a lot of macro mining right there.

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scarab miners actually like I almost got a billion afk liquizit, it's amazing

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We're testing to see how much ore it takes to break a corp storage.

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Do you troll your topic?

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No matter how many alts in the game. It is important to many clients started.

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+1

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+1

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Chemist wrote:

No matter how many alts in the game. It is important to many clients started.

In every MMO "Online Players" means including alts.
So yes, there is no single reason to count people instead of windows.

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Ville wrote:

our squad chat was at 53 today.  General chat was at 19.

Secret society? roll

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JetNexus wrote:
Ville wrote:

our squad chat was at 53 today.  General chat was at 19.

Secret society? roll

53 in squad,  only 2 actual humans.

They were 'mining' which basically means talking about other games on TS while looking at porn and occasionally clicking a new tile.

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Who clicks a new tile?  That's apparently for toggies.

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Thanks....I like to think I have the freedom to click a tile. I had great mirth reading the fantasy that we were made to leave the game by Smaldic - well I'm still here, blocker, Dark, Lecktron, Cal Rodden etc are all still here and we play regularly   - ask Rovoc and NSE.

Me thinks there is some long history bottom hurting in some, for some long forgotten history none here cares about - something about account sharing bans or what not.....get over it, we have.

Come play have fun, we do both.

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I suspect you have to remind yourself with post-its to breathe through your nose with that level of stupidity. lol

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Remember when TOG owned beta outposts?  Yeah, me neither.

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Naismith wrote:

I suspect you have to remind yourself with post-its to breathe through your nose with that level of stupidity. lol

oh, falling back to personal insults...

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to Ville - South Isetsu, ask NSE. You might not have noticed - I never see you around, only afk mining somewhere ......and to smaldyc - really...that's it, that's your response. Post it notes to breathe....it kinda does confirm my comment then. 

The comical thing is that to the rest of us, you standing in the corner, shaking with rage, madly waving your fist at all and sundry, over some past perceived injustice - plotting revenge. Apparently you have exacted it, only none of those it involves can see it - that's got to be annoying.

Rage on - no one cares, then move on

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*quoted post removed - DEV Zoom

You had a perfectly reasonable thread going here and one of your mob started throwing insults around against a non existent corp, mistakenly thinking he was being funny/witty and knowing that he would get a response from someone, and now there's another thread derailed. And don't confuse complaining with holding you to task for making blatant BS posts.

Ryn, don't respond to them mate.

24 (edited by Naismith 2015-11-20 00:36:08)

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The point of the thread is still valid and standing, pending DEV address.

I have addressed your insipid complaining that POE intentionally made people quit the game. I have addressed your contrary complaining that we didn't eliminate corporations. I have addressed your thinly veiled insults by shoving down a generous helping of similar - albeit more intelligent - offal down your toggie throats, you complain about that too.

Complaining has been and continues to be the defining keyword that describes you - and by extension, your entire four-man corporation, your entire 10 corp alliance that doesn't play the game. Complaining, and alternating between expecting and demanding a Dev intervention.

POE - and by extension myself - has always responded to politeness with politeness, to sh*t with sh*t. If you are composed of sh*t, look in the mirror and be honest with yourself. If you won't then we will tell you what you are, don't complain afterwards.

Truth is the creed of POE, and that is what you should be grateful for. Not only for that, but for the fact that we take up a moment of our valuable time to address you, which is by far the greatest thing you will experience in your toggie existence.

More on topic though, yes online counters are awesome and can we have them plixplox

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Smaldyc states " I have addressed your thinly veiled insults by shoving down a generous helping of similar - albeit more intelligent - offal down your toggie throats, you complain about that too.

LOl...listen to this drivel. I love ofal (lambs liver and bacon, yum yum). 

.....well I can honestly say that in all the years I’ve read Smaldyc, no one has ever questioned his intelligence.
In fact..... I’ve never heard anyone even mention it.

now I know why

Sorry Blocker - had to reply the bullshit is strong in this one....I will now refrain....Good Day sir