Say what?

I'm pointing out that the number of subscribed accounts does impact the subjective feel of the game.  I don't see what that has to do with people coming, going, or pretending to be elves in their corp channel.

Actually, I'm rather fond of elves.  In a certain unmentionable MMO, I admit to having an elf character.  They just get special, yet odd treatment from Arga in our corp LARP sessions.

It was an over simplification as stated. You hint at knowing the correct answer ... do you know something we don't? If you know the answer please post so we can stop guessing.

Even if there is only 100 unique visitors logging in every hour and each visitor plays for 3 hours, then your average after 3 hours would be 400 users online. If we use the simplified 15% usage principle on that number, we get ~2500 accounts. This does not take into account multiple accounts, people playing 15 minutes to spend EP, people playing weekends only or weekdays only, etc. I also suspect that more than half of regular players have 3 or more accounts.

Then there is also the issue of the question posed. If the question was "how many active people?" then I would agree with ~2000. Just add the starter corp's numbers together, as well as the freelancers (~4500), gives ~35000 characters. Add another few thousand for player corps, and divide by 3 gives ~11000 accounts (assumes every account has 3 characters).

This is important.  I hope someone is taking notes.

By event, do you mean a Perp-LARP session in real life?  You could just drop in on a local hobby shop/nerd store to gather yourself and your friends together for some Warhammer/Battletech action.  I hear that there are girls there sometimes.

I'd like to know how you plan to pull off the freakishly small legs.

*backs away frightened*

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I play MMOs. I need a signature which is deep, thought provoking, and devours bandwidth with the voracity of rabid weasels. It is also, by nature, vaguely sad with a tinge of my obvious internal, unfathomable loneliness. Like this,   , but at 1.3megs packed into 2 by 6 inches. ANIMATED.

Yeah, I know what you mean.  If he would have mentioned wrapping himself in bacon and going as the magical meat roll so everyone can have a bite while we're casting magic missile to attack the darkness, I wouldn't have been so scared either.

Isn't Lady GaGa (I feel much stupider after processing the thoughts necessary to type her utterly *** stage name) cross dressing as a hobo on her latest album cover these days?  Amazingly, she pulls of scrawny, smelly bum so well that I'm suddenly more interested in downloading pics of bald Brittney Spears again.

I didn't say it WILL be, I said I'll start looking into the possibility

You're tricky, sir!  Tricky!!!

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I play MMOs. I need a signature which is deep, thought provoking, and devours bandwidth with the voracity of rabid weasels. It is also, by nature, vaguely sad with a tinge of my obvious internal, unfathomable loneliness. Like this,   , but at 1.3megs packed into 2 by 6 inches. ANIMATED.

I give up.  Who is going to NPC for this evening's LARP encounter?

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I play MMOs. I need a signature which is deep, thought provoking, and devours bandwidth with the voracity of rabid weasels. It is also, by nature, vaguely sad with a tinge of my obvious internal, unfathomable loneliness. Like this,   , but at 1.3megs packed into 2 by 6 inches. ANIMATED.