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Give an estimate on how many players actively playing Eve
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Exe Om
The Grand Assembly
#1 - 2015-11-10 19:18:30 UTC
No Alts, no bots, no players only log in to update skills and for w/e reason they login and log out in 2-3 minutes.

My guess is 11000 Twisted

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#2 - 2015-11-10 19:25:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Ralph King-Griffin
ha ha, very funny chriba...wait I thought I was chribba...ah shite.

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Yourmoney Mywallet
Doomheim
#3 - 2015-11-10 19:42:32 UTC
Nitshe wtf
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2015-11-10 20:20:41 UTC
I though we were all Mittani's alt...
Esrevid Nekkeg
Justified and Ancient
#5 - 2015-11-10 20:43:41 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
I though we were all Mittani's alt...
So, one?

Here I used to have a sig of our old Camper in space. Now it is disregarded as being the wrong format. Looking out the window I see one thing: Nothing wrong with the format of our Camper! Silly CCP......
Dirk Magnum
Spearhead Endeavors
#6 - 2015-11-10 20:44:22 UTC
I thought this was a single player game all this time ٩๏̯͡๏)۶

                      "LIVE FAST DIE." - traditional Minmatar ethos [citation needed]
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#7 - 2015-11-10 20:50:57 UTC
Being a little more serious, we know that 85% or so of the people that log in actually do something, at least undock and fly somewhere. Then there are probably a bunch of trade hub characters that never undock but still play the game.
So.... At least 90% of those who log in actually 'play'.

We also know that there are about 1.5 characters per player per a recent twitter or reddit 'guessing' contest.

The only question now comes is how many people actually log in per day, since all we have is concurrent logins rather than a discrete login total and we have no idea of the average length of play session. But the answer is a lot more than you think, that much is for sure.
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#8 - 2015-11-10 21:01:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Scipio Artelius
Nevyn Auscent wrote:
The only question now comes is how many people actually log in per day, since all we have is concurrent logins rather than a discrete login total and we have no idea of the average length of play session. But the answer is a lot more than you think, that much is for sure.

We know from Fanfest that there were on average 420,000 unique players logging in each month throughout 2014 (175,000 unique per day too if my memory is correct), so somewhere around there is an upper limit.

If PCU is also a mirror of subscriptions, then the lower limit would be about 30% less then that, so somewhere around 300,000 on the lower end.

However it's probably not a direct relation between subscription loss and the drop in PCU, but there isn't really a good way to estimate what the difference is.

So it's likely 300,000 - 420,000 but where exactly in that range, it would be great if CCP released the figure again.

It's one of those things that received a lot of discussion a while back but our focus seems to have shifted away from it lately. I think Ripard's estimate going off the CSM voting information earlier this year and working back to his 2014 calculation, estimated around 320,000 subscriptions (not necessarily unique players), however there were some assumptions in that which also make the error margin fairly large from a conservative view.

I'm not sure we can seriously get a much better estimate then that with a high degree of confidence, without CCP giving us more up to date data.

Edit: Data sources:

http://puu.sh/lgQm5/a17640f116.png ( https://youtu.be/h-jfvjMoe9Y?t=238 )
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/csm-x-voting-results/
https://mikeazariah.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/ooc-mathematics/
http://jestertrek.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/csm-election-results.html
Lulu Lunette
Savage Moon Society
#9 - 2015-11-10 21:38:45 UTC
100.

Final answer.

@lunettelulu7
Soloman Jackson
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2015-11-10 21:50:41 UTC
3

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Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#11 - 2015-11-10 22:03:50 UTC
Paranoid Loyd
#12 - 2015-11-10 22:13:21 UTC
Obligatory

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!
Lykouleon
Noble Sentiments
Second Empire.
#13 - 2015-11-11 01:27:19 UTC
Five.

Five dollah.

Lykouleon > CYNO ME CLOSER so I can hit them with my sword
Rowells
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2015-11-11 02:55:54 UTC
about tree-fiddy
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2015-11-11 04:23:32 UTC
2 .. no 3

no blue but usually Tuesdays

wait .. what was the question again ?
John Ludik
Shield of Iron Crown
#16 - 2015-11-11 10:27:56 UTC
While we're on the subject, am I the only one who is upset about how the last season of Game of Thrones ended?
Avvy
Doomheim
#17 - 2015-11-11 12:19:43 UTC
Doesn't matter, active accounts matter.

Although the amount of players in-game does matter, as people attract people, so player retention is generally better.

Part of why failing MMOs tend to add a F2P element, so that it bolsters the amount of players and helps keep those paying players that are still left.
Frank Pannon
Emerald Swine Escavations
#18 - 2015-11-11 12:39:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Frank Pannon
Why does it matter even?

As long as there is content around you, do such numbers matter? Do you feel better if there are 200k people online, instead of 20k?

Of course in a certain way numbers matter. CCP needs subscribed people so they can keep developing, making the game better, continuing it's path. You also want parts of space not to be empty.

How can YOU contribute? Try to recruit more people into the game, tell them how much you enjoy playing it. Get them hooked, that way you get more friends / targets to play with / shoot at.

You win, CCP wins.
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#19 - 2015-11-11 13:31:33 UTC
Oh come on, a thread with numbers where no one says "42"? You guys are slipping?
Samwise Everquest
Plus 10 NV
#20 - 2015-11-11 14:02:47 UTC
I run so many accounts that I've suicide ganked my own freighters in highsec.

Pras Phil.
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