Fewer players now?

[Ganon]

As the quality of the server admins decreases, so does the player population.

What have admins to do with it.. oh wait, do play on the us servers ? I know of no huge problems on the eu servers with admins. Everything seems normal.. And stop derailing the thread

The topic is THERE ARE LESS PLAYERS, WHY AND DO WE CARE ?

[Gorath]

THERE ARE LESS PLAYERS, WHY AND DO WE CARE ?

Why?   They're whiners
Do we care?  Not in the slightest.

[chadz]

The playerbase has dropped from the average of 3200-3600 unique keys per day (beginning of january) to about 2800-3100 per day. Personally, I was expecting more quits.

Reasons for less players:
Patch GTX
no more holidays / exams / work
no more steam sale
solar flares
people got a life and a girlfriend _{(I made that one up)}

How many left for what reason, I have no idea. I'd guess it's 40% GTX, and the rest distributed on the others, who knows.

However, it doesn't drop any further by the looks of it, it seems to stay at status quo.

Either way, as long as there are servers with people in it, I am not worried. The point is I can have a good time playing the game whenever I want, be it in the night or in the morning, there are always some players. So It's fine

[serpus]

You can't ignore the bad admin'ing factor.  It was even addressed by a top server admin just a few days ago

[chadz]

You can't ignore the bad admin'ing factor.  It was even addressed by a top server admin just a few days ago

Büllshit.

If you disagree with a server admin, you switch server, you don't leave the game. Unless you suggest all crpg server admins across the globe are corrupted?

[serpus]

Then how can you support these bans that span across all continental servers?

[chadz]

I still have no idea what you really are talking about...
Edit: are you implying that the player base dropped by several hundred players because.. they all got banned?

[serpus]

I'm talking about the recent rash of really bad admin calls on the NA servers, resulting in players being banned across ALL NA servers.  It's not a lot of players, but a significant amount that several threads have been created, and then either locked or deleted to sweep it under the rug.

[IG_Saint]

Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but chad doesn't have anything to do with the NA admins?

[Blondin]

I never had problems with any admin (NE or EU), and i guess this is not the problem for a big majority of players, so that's not the point.

One other factor : players that wait for Strategus re-opening, they have their main character at lvl 30 (or 31...) so they don't mind level up anymore and they just wait to play their char in strat. And there is no need to lvl up an alt anymore, you only play it for pleasure now.
Without banner balance, the servers would be nearly empty.

[serpus]

Maybe not, but I feel that it is important for the game creator to be in touch with what is happening within the margins of the servers.

[chadz]

as far as I know, there are two different NA servers, and as far as I know, they do not share any banlists or something. And the server admins in the unban forums cant delete threads, afaik.

Either way, for the next patch there are some ideas planned to make more server hostings available by making it easier to get access -> everyone somewhat trustworthy will be able to host a server, more or less.

[Whalen207]

solar flares

Excuses, Excuses...

[Rogue_Eagle]

everyone somewhat trustworthy will be able to host a server, more or less.

this is good news.

[MrExxc]

Less players?? I must say indeed I remember during Christmas almost all big EU cRPG servers where on top of the server list along with the 22nd native siege server, this might not be the case anymore nowadays, but there are always people to play with! I played a game for about 1 year called Dungeon Party, we were like 20 at rush hours and we still had fun and even organised mini tournaments! I feel like the community is getting more mature and I'm having a blast on this mod! I sincerely admire chadz work, cause you've actually made my dream game come true. Since M&B(1), I always wanted to make some kind of an MMO without the grinding and with M&B's gameplay, but I'm not a programmer. Thank you dude.
(Forgive me for my early whine threads just after the big patch, I have seen the light!)