125380-hey-how-many-actually-plays-ws

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I trully loved this game, just resubbed and... I'm sad. After writing /who it listed 45 players! Yep, only 45 players on the whole server (Jabbit)... Maybe I done something wrong, maybe i written it in the wrong way cuz I just can't believe the playerbase is so small (although in Thayd there was almost zero people). So can anyone tell me how are your guild, do you have many active friend playing WS? All my friends already unsubbed :/... so I'm looking for new people to play with... but I'm not even sure if it is possible to find any.
 	
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I just also resubbed - and last night I saw people everywhere, I have a new character that I'm leveling and I'm not having problems finding dungeons (even at lvl 20) - I sign up as a tank though usually takes me about 20min to get a group. (That's on Jabbit PvE)
 
I've also been running WildstarCensus addon since I came back and the population is increasing. Last night I got 1680 characters added to the addon so 45 players in your /who seems pretty low. 
 
I've got this post to help wildstar regain its population:
 
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/125379-lets-help-wildstar-for-us/
 
I also think that a lot of people will come back when summer vacations is getting closer and DROP #5 patch! We just have to keep pushing people to come back and the game will be saved!	
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In thayd everyone hangs around in one spot mostly, at about 8pm cest you will see quite a few people there.
leveling will be quite lonely because there is no reason to go back and starting an alt isn't that great in ws.
 
I personally never got skullcano to pop on my alt that i'm leveling as a tank.
She is now in grimvault but i've yet to meet a player there :/
 
The lower level do look more populated and i see more lower levels in thayd, but the higher you go the less players you will see. Untill you hit 50 and hang around in thayd all the time waiting for the dungeon or bg to pop.
 
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I also think that a lot of people will come back when summer vacations is getting closer and DROP #5 patch! We just have to keep pushing people to come back and the game will be saved!
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			Well , its early in the morning right now , so obv there wont be as many ppl online at that time. During the evening there's lots of ppl playing .	
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I see alot of ppl in thayd on jabbit during evenings. But yes..during daytime its a barren wasteland. I remember 1 may..I was up early due to hangover..and i went into WS (it was 0730 morning time)...started a pvp BG que...3 hours later..still no pop. That was a bit alarming for me tbo. Never before have I experienced that in any mmo. Both in wow and gw2 there where always enough ppl for www or pvp. But..as said...during evening there are enough players to play with.
 
I love playing WS right now, but damn i miss the masses of random ppl in wow. And sadly..IF I could take my toon-look, the combat and the vet dungeon with me into WOW I would have done so in a hearthbeat and never looked back!...
 
I dont know if F2P/B2P will bring alot of players to WS...but personally I'm willing to sacrifice everything wildstar currently has to try it out!	
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			I am unaware of any game where a /who command was any realistic estimation of how many people are playing on that server at that moment.  When did this become the "go-to" for entire server population numbers?	
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I am unaware of any game where a /who command was any realistic estimation of how many people are playing on that server at that moment.  When did this become the "go-to" for entire server population numbers?
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			the most realistic way to tell how many people play the game is to measure your fps drop when you walk through your main city on prime time.	
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			thats odd, at 5 am i realized the insomnia had won so i entered  to level my engi, in a fast /who scans per level i got like 150 people, so you must not be using correctly the /who tool	
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			I think it's safe to say that the in-game player tracking tools available by default just aren't reliable...	
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			Seriously. I'll check my friends list and see two people on: An entry for a friend with their character, then another with their master account. Games telling me "noo.. you have 2 friends on" and Im like "uh... no. I don't"	
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Seriously. I'll check my friends list and see two people on: An entry for a friend with their character, then another with their master account. Games telling me "noo.. you have 2 friends on" and Im like "uh... no. I don't"
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I ran from the taxi cab to the AH by the Spaceport on Jabbit last night and there were 67 *nearby* players.
 
Plenty of people playing at the moment, I guess it depends on time.	
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			Hey, lots. 	
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			Then can you answer me one more thing - when should I play to queue for adventures and dungeons at 20-30 lvl?	
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Then can you answer me one more thing - when should I play to queue for adventures and dungeons at 20-30 lvl?
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I see alot of ppl in thayd on jabbit during evenings. But yes..during daytime its a barren wasteland. I remember 1 may..I was up early due to hangover..and i went into WS (it was 0730 morning time)...started a pvp BG que...3 hours later..still no pop. That was a bit alarming for me tbo. Never before have I experienced that in any mmo. Both in wow and gw2 there where always enough ppl for www or pvp. But..as said...during evening there are enough players to play with.
 
I love playing WS right now, but damn i miss the masses of random ppl in wow. And sadly..IF I could take my toon-look, the combat and the vet dungeon with me into WOW I would have done so in a hearthbeat and never looked back!...
 
I dont know if F2P/B2P will bring alot of players to WS...but personally I'm willing to sacrifice everything wildstar currently has to try it out!
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the most realistic way to tell how many people play the game is to measure your fps drop when you walk through your main city on prime time.
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Then can you answer me one more thing - when should I play to queue for adventures and dungeons at 20-30 lvl?
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I am unaware of any game where a /who command was any realistic estimation of how many people are playing on that server at that moment.  When did this become the "go-to" for entire server population numbers?
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So just to test this I did /who.
 
My results showed 50 players online, the issue was that there was 55 players listed in the near me tab of Thayd...Hopefully you see the contradiction there.
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So just to test this I did /who.
 
My results showed 50 players online, the issue was that there was 55 players listed in the near me tab of Thayd...Hopefully you see the contradiction there.
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The /who feature is truncated to prevent server load.  Addon limitations =/= population estimate.
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I trully loved this game, just resubbed and... I'm sad. After writing /who it listed 45 players! Yep, only 45 players on the whole server (Jabbit)... Maybe I done something wrong, maybe i written it in the wrong way cuz I just can't believe the playerbase is so small (although in Thayd there was almost zero people). So can anyone tell me how are your guild, do you have many active friend playing WS? All my friends already unsubbed :/... so I'm looking for new people to play with... but I'm not even sure if it is possible to find any.
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Once the 2015 Q1 report is out, some random redditor will guesstimate the current subs by the reported revenue, and it'll be quoted by many as Gospel Truth by some ... of course, others will argue that it's an inaccurate reflection of current subs because it doesn't take into account people coming back for the Mystery Box promotion and Drop 5. ;)
 
Then come 2015 Q2, and Drop 6 after that, the process will repeat itself. :D	
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Once the 2015 Q1 report is out, some random redditor will guesstimate the current subs by the reported revenue, and it'll be quoted by many as Gospel Truth by some ... of course, others will argue that it's an inaccurate reflection of current subs because it doesn't take into account people coming back for the Mystery Box promotion and Drop 5. ;)
 
Then come 2015 Q2, and Drop 6 after that, the process will repeat itself. :D
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			I want to say over 9,000 because memes but I actually have no idea.	
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Oh, I just can't wait to see the new round of "BUT FINANCIAL REPORT SAYS BLAH" as the go-to forum argument.
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Oh, I just can't wait to see the new round of "BUT FINANCIAL REPORT SAYS BLAH" as the go-to forum argument.
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What metrics do you prefer? 
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Oh, I just can't wait to see the new round of "BUT FINANCIAL REPORT SAYS BLAH" as the go-to forum argument.
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So you tell me that before 50 I won't be able to play group content?
Well then I was really lucky, I got into queue (after 3 hours... but still!) to 1st adventure!	
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Exile: /chjoin lfg
Dominion: /chjoin Entitylfm
 
You'll be able to group.	
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			But I'm EU player.	
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			/chjoin global, then.  Both factions.	
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yeah!! how dare people use actual facts and figures to support their arguments. dagnabbit this is the internet. Cat meme's or get the hell out!
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Personally I got into pug dungeons all the time while leveling up to 50...yes i was in que from 45 mins to 1.5 hours but I actually ran alot of dungeons while leveling. Shiphands also popped....but..there is something non-magical about shiphands..i simply dont enjoy them so much..i struggle deeply with making gold in the shiphands (for the amp points)..I have 2...but i need 7?..damn its hard to mobilize myself for the boring must-do things.
 
I have never used /who to see how many ppl are online, and i have turned OFF the addon itself as I was getting pissed by the game telling me so and so player are close...I base my population estimate on what i see first hand in the game....and on the BG pops...	
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			When have you been leveling? Maybe back then the population was bigger? Year ago it was actually so big that I could lvl just by pvping. Now pvp don't popup... ever!	
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When have you been leveling? Maybe back then the population was bigger? Year ago it was actually so big that I could lvl just by pvping. Now pvp don't popup... ever!
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Oh... okay. But still i miss the times when I played first time, when there was no mega servers (that are more empty than normal server) and when the pvp bg's would pop instantly at every lvl.
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Oh... okay. But still i miss the times when I played first time, when there was no mega servers (that are more empty than normal server) and when the pvp bg's would pop instantly at every lvl.
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/chjoin global, then.  Both factions.
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Nobody is using that.
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I'm just copying off of Maru's FAQ.
Please give suggestions.
If there are no suggestions, please try to bring your server's community together.
 
I can only give my perspective of Exile Entity, and other people's perspective of Jabbit.
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I already pointed it out there as well, that many points don't translate that simply.
We use the zone chat or advice chat for groups, we also don't use any of the addons that help to make groups.
 
For the community I was quite involve at Luminai getting players together but Jabbit isn't my server and it seems that no one is willing there to take things up.
There is a pug raid circle in the making but not sure if that will work out.
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			Depends when you play and what level you're at. I've seen many, many more people out in the world leveling in the past week or so than I did a month and a half ago. Remember, you are the solution. If the playerbase is small, you only help make it better by staying around.	
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			I was just running around the Elderroot questline place and I saw several other players running those quests as well... so It can't be all bad :P	
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