So, I saw this huge forum debate open up about Entropia Universe's population on a daily basis and the 30-day average of ELife and also the Auction postings. The eaiest way to study the game population is the Mentor Register. anyone who has played EU for longer than x amount of time and has lvl 15 in any profession can become one. Bearing in mind it still isn't accurate it's not gonna solve the guy's issue. For example, there is currently 419 active players who are still available to become a new players mentor. That volume might hold constant with changes in the names. It DOES exclude traders that didn't want to up their professional standings. It does exclude brand new players, disciples under x months / lvl 15. It would take 30 days of constant monitoring (round the clock) just to ensure accuracy for the inaccurate method of using available mentors. But it's healthier than some thought. I thought the monthly would be in the region of 6k individual avatars. ELife doesn't exactly show up all the globals everywhere. I had a lesser elysia global last night that didn't make the tracker. /Global
Interesting alternative, but you seem to forget that players may simply opt-out of the mentor program, and I know many who have - they are simply either not interested in teaching someone, have time restrictions and they'd rather be playing, or simply have language barriers. But it's certainly no worse than trying to calculate through globals or auction pages. P.S. Last time I checked, ELife needed at least three active trackers on the current planet to register globals.
I think the easiest way to monitor in game population is to play daily and pay attention to your surroundings. Seeing new names, seeing same names repetitively, moving from place to place and not just the trading areas. I see more people now at nearly every tp I hit these days not just a random encounter here and there. The day to day population at least on Arkadia is way up from the first days now. Only Mindark has the real knowledge of game population and they will never divulge that as it could potentially damage the way they do business. Sort of like the McDonalds xxbillion served counters. That's manipulated data that unless you know the specifics can be quite misleading.
This is true, both replies. So, at least 6700 registered and visible mentors are on the list (in game within the last x amount of days - account deletion) and even that number excludes those that opted out. As for MA potentially revealing a business changing fact about their product, if anyone can profit - It should be MA first and foremost. Otherwise they already broke their product I was in Crown Court the other week and a guy there was being tried for Fraud. He'd run a short term loan company for 2x years and when someone who had invested significantly had passed on, the defendant was unable to reconcile the investors estate. If MA were planning to get into that position it would be clearly visible. The game is safe, but attitudes at this time could easily cost MA a fortune. Going toe-to-toe with a despositor of only $2k per year would be community cannibalism beyond unhealthy practice.
