Pokuru wrote:Thank you thats a nice find.
It used to prominently displayed like 4 years ago. I thought it had completely been removed but stumbled across it on accident a month or so ago looking through some of my own old posts for something.
Let me tell a quick story about this though, and I have to say it's really disappointing to me. I saw a new guy (or at least character) log in to gen chat last night ... he asked "on a scale of 1 to 10 how dead is this game?" Someone I know and like who happened to be on said "10" and the new guy immediately went offline. I was in the middle of trying to find that link to show the so they could make up their own mind and I wasn't quick enough.
There seems to be a sizable number of people who only want to know what the population is so they can not "waste their time" with a "dead game" and just move on without even giving it a chance. But if everyone did that it would never have even made it out of Beta (in some ways it arguably hasn't) and on to Steam in the first place.
It's probably true that anyone with that little interest, self sufficiency, attention span, and patience wouldn't have lasted long anyway but it's still sad. The devs have pretty systematically over a long period of time made it next to impossible to stay fully solo 100% of the time and still have any fun at all. It basically forces you to join a corp to thrive (survival is easy - don't go outside Alpha) and a lot of people who play MMOs, probably the majority, if not than a large minority, play solo.
Gekko wrote:A couple of days ago i've seen 7-10 agents(alts) near the alpha terminal, they were not in gen chat.
Yes, it's scares some people off, not only the new ones.
I've seen a number that look scripted where 6+ similar names log in at the exact same time to the second. I see a lot of people log in and immediately out again just to keep the EP coming without actively playing at all. I wonder if the graphs count those or if they have to be logged in for a certain amount or time or what.