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I'm looking at the Online players right now and..

Nov 23, 2005 Vampwood link
I was wondering why there are so little people playing this game, is it just a bad time of day or what, I have just resubscribed to the game only an hour ago. The last time I have played was a year ago.
Nov 23, 2005 thergvk link
ya see the thing is, is that theres not alot of peeps wanting to play, for just the reason that there arenot alot of peeps playing. now see how this could become kinda not working out for them? they keep waiting for more peeps to play, while everyone else does that no one more plays and nothing improves!
Nov 23, 2005 Forum Moderator link
I think they're all about normal size...

At peak times we run in the upper 40's recently. There are two major peaks each day, but I'm uncertain of the times.

Last November was the "go live" month. We had a little bit of fanfare with that, and some people were playing on free time they received with the box set.
Nov 23, 2005 Vampwood link
I'm trying to get some of my friends intrested in this game and I have been successful, but without many players it is hard to get them to pay for it.
Nov 23, 2005 Forum Moderator link
Consider that this is dinner time for the East Coast and people aren't home from work or school on the West Coast. Check back in a few hours.
Nov 23, 2005 roguelazer link
When GS advertises, they will come. Now, they will not.
Nov 23, 2005 genka link
You people are crazy.
Not only is the small number of players actually helps the community (by allowing us to ridicule all u peepz dat tulk leik dis easily enough,) but the chat system at the moment simply can't handle any more people. I have a hard enough time keeping track of the people I'm engaged in "friendly conversation" with as it is.

Obviously, some day it'll go back to the sexy experimental system from way back when in the beta, but that'd mean I'll be missing out of hundreds of potential targets all the time. I, for one, dread the day we get lots more players.
Nov 23, 2005 Dark Knight link
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Genka, your conversations are as likely to be friendly as Leber is to go sober.

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For now, forty simultaneous players is a good solid player base, given how little publicity the game has gotten. However, you'd think there'd be a few more, given that MacTech did a feature article on VO...
Nov 23, 2005 Borb II link
Haha hey Vamp! I always wondered what happened to you. I was that one n00b you took down to Odia that one day to buy Hornets and FC batts, and then we got attacked.

Kinda helped get me addicted to the game.
Nov 24, 2005 Vampwood link
:P Gotta love the Grey Zone, Even though I got killed 12 times yesterday, by "Ahem* Bunny, Shape and Kalki.