Apr 8th 2010, 11:52:16
i'm not here to spin anything in any fashion, heck, even I haven't made my country run any turns (although i believe i made one for this server, right before they switched it to alliance if i recall correctly) because this server is so uneventful. i've never been a fan of running a 1A/1B/tourney/ec country, because it inevitably means i'll be running an all-x country to keep our clan out of FA trouble... and only do so because i love hanging out with the peeps (thunder, slippeh, nowie, llaarfluff, bug, fordy, the list goes on for days!)
and as for accounts in-site, i don't have admin perms and pang beautifully left out member counts at the bottom or top of member lists... so i'd have to argue that considering how massive that list is, i'm sure we easily have greater than the numbers from last set... where we stood at 100, which is where we've stood every set for many sets. we start with 90-100, then gain more as llaar recruits every untag on the server, spy or not :P so the 70++ exaggeration doesn't really apply, considering i believe they stand at 50~ ish right now, meaning half of us still have to run turns and tag up... give it time!
plus, i don't use icq, msn or aim, unless i am dying and need to contact someone :P hell, i don't even pop on IRC anymore :D
the game is growing stale without any newer players, and if you notice, it's a few days into the server, and we haven't reached our 800 players from last set... the fact that locket brought this topic up was simply to ruffle some feathers, not to actually nut up and discuss the effects that playing a dying game has on an aging player base :P