Prime minister Johns' Blog

Ok.

Talk to SCY - I believe he's got info going back a couple of months.

Talk to SCY - I believe he's got info going back a couple of months.

I may have given it up after a while.

Well, on the 9th of October, we had 21,028.

Though I believe we were down to 20,500 or so during November some time.

So we've gained a few hundred? That is actually an improvement.

This is something I've wanted to do but am too lazy, so please, keep it up. I have noticed we've been hovering roughly between 20k and 21k for the last while.

The only number that really matters is one's relative ranking in terms of age. If one keeps climbing in that ranking, it means older nations are leaving. That is considerably more worrisome than whether or not the noobs are sticking around.

The only number that really matters is one's relative ranking in terms of age. If one keeps climbing in that ranking, it means older nations are leaving. That is considerably more worrisome than whether or not the noobs are sticking around.

I would disagree, CN needs fresh blood and these "noobs" are the leaders of tomorrow. Having the same old faces running things around here for years and years isn't a viable strategy, eventually those people *are* going to leave.

I would disagree, CN needs fresh blood and these "noobs" are the leaders of tomorrow. Having the same old faces running things around here for years and years isn't a viable strategy, eventually those people *are* going to leave.

I have to agree here, new faces and new ideas are just what this game needs. We have already seen what the old nations stand for, and now it is like watching reruns over and over again with the same tired issues and grudges being rehashed over and over again.

Give this game few new alliances and the good old days will return. Remember when a post on the old OWF used to only be on the front page for a day at the most instead of fossilizing there. And world affairs is a virtual ghost town with posts that have had a month since their last post sitting and gathering dust on the front page. And even if something is said it is always the same predictable script of propaganda and party lines. Nothing really interesting happens there it is mostly Side A posting some of their same old propaganda followed by Side B responding with the same tired rebuttals. heck it is getting that way that I can virtually predict the script of the thread before it happens.

What makes this game fun is when something completely unexpected happens and snaps everyone out of the daze they are in most of the time.

We would have been way under 20k players, if not for the inactivity change.

Pretty consistent at ~20,700 for a couple of weeks.

I know its not the end of the week but I noticed a rise so I am excited now.

20,795 nations

We are up 60...

Hopefully this trend will continue.

12,087

Down 8 nations.

The bump was a temporary thing it seems. We are at 20,533 nations now.

20,342 nations now.

We seem to be hovering around the 20k mark.

20,183 Nations down about 150.

Still keeping at the 20 mark

20,624 nations, The trend seems to be that the population is stable at about the 20k mark +- 1k nations for the moment, the talk that the population is plummeting is not as bad as initially anticipated, although it may be of interest to note the population in the months following the current conflict to observe the effect on player retention due to losses of infra/tech especially with established players.