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Alliance Member Count Attribute
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Swiftstrike1
Swiftstrike Incorporated
#1 - 2013-05-09 13:48:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Swiftstrike1
Alliances should have a member count in their attributes tab just like corporations do. This information can be gained by adding up the individual member counts of all the member corps or visiting eve-who (this information is publicly available). I don't see why there shouldn't be a total member count under alliance attributes.


Secondly, a new attribute for corps and alliances both: "Active members count". This would be valuable intel for enemies so should only be visible to corp/alliance members or maybe even just directors. You may ask what the point is, that surely everyone knows how many active players they have in their corp or alliance. Well they don't. Moving on... "Active members" would only count characters who have logged on within the past 2 weeks and would only count one character per account because characters on the same account can't be online simultaneously.

Casual Incursion runner & Faction Warfare grunt, ex-Wormholer, ex-Nullbear.
monkfish2345
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-05-09 13:52:02 UTC  |  Edited by: monkfish2345
pretty sure this information is already available in game if you go to the alliances tab and rankings...

I think the main problem behind this is that the alliance member count is a function of all of the corps within it. which means each time someone wants to see that info the client needs to pull the details of all of the corps and add together their member counts etc.

while this doesn't seem like a lot, when you have 50 - 60k people online and the amount of times these kind of details gets looked up it pretty high.

As for the active member count i'm not sure how useful this would be in practice because it still gives no indication or timezone distribution etc. you will just end up with people moaning " the alliance has 300 active members why can we only form a fleet of 20 people" etc etc.