Population down?

[Dragone]

Seems there are fewer players on in the last few days. Is it just my imagination or has anyone noticed this?

[Broken_Prey]

I don't know but you can always see how many are playing if you look here https://forums.homecomingservers.com/status/

[quixoteprog]

I rarely checked the server numbers but just my personal experience has been that Excelsior used to be at high with three red dots almost every time I logged on, no matter if it was right after work or dinner of for a quick few missions before bed, weekdays or weekends. Now it is low to moderate, with one or two yellow dots.

 

But that is probably part of a general trend where the flash mob hit it shortly after it became public and people have been drifting away now that the new has worn off. The population seems to have been dropping slowly over the last month or two and now with the onset of the holiday season that has no doubt exacerbate things a bit what with people getting pulled away for family stuff.

 

It is a trend I expect to continue until they get the legal stuff worked out and can start promoting the game as "official".

 

 

Edited October 10, 2019 by quixoteprog

[swordchucks]

There is also a seven day user graph on the Homecoming discord under #live-graphs.  It looks like peaks are very slightly down from past weeks when I've thought to look at it, but not by a lot.

[Marine X]

Still seeing a lot of new people here and in the help channel that are true first time players, and that is good to see. Think we lost some people over the Policy changes but I'm not surprised. Seems people don't like being told there are going to be rules even on a rogue server. It'll all work out.

[Rathulfr]

I suspect that the release of WoW Classic, Fallout 4, and Borderlands 3 have also had an affect on player populations.

 

[boggo2300]

I'm not playing at the moment at least partly because of how annoying I find the halloween event, so maybe I'm not alone in hating it?

[Spotlore]

Destiny 2 went F2P.  Been checkin it out.  But CoH is still my fav.  ❤️

[EmmySky]

I will stop playing CoH when they pry it from my cold, dead hands OR pry my hands from the cold , dead server.  Population 1.

[MunkiLord]

2 hours ago, Rathulfr said:

I suspect that the release of WoW Classic, Fallout 4, and Borderlands 3 have also had an affect on player populations.

 

What's going on with Fallout 4 for it to have any impact?

[Haijinx]

6 minutes ago, MunkiLord said:

What's going on with Fallout 4 for it to have any impact?

Also curious about this

[Abraxus]

I'm not playing quite as frequently, but I am playing.  Probably due to the fact that, at least for the time being, I feel pretty comfortable that when I want to play, it's here.  Those first few months, I think a lot of folks were playing like mad just in case it all ended suddenly.  Now, we are settling in for the longer haul.  As someone above mentioned, this is probably just the state of things until the results of the negotiations are announced, and are (hopefully) favorable.  Then, they can go out and advertise this game to the universe at large, at which time, I'm guessing we'd get a fresh influx of players.

[MetaVileTerror]

I was going to ask about the Fallout 4 thing as well . . . then I figured . . . Outer Worlds?  Was that released yet?

*one internet search later*

 

Nope.  Not for another two weeks.  Huh . . . then the mystery remains unsolved!

[Haijinx]

Ive took a break for a couple weeks after i got my 6th character to 50.

 

I am working out a new project now though.

[MunkiLord]

6 minutes ago, MetaVileTerror said:

I was going to ask about the Fallout 4 thing as well . . . then I figured . . . Outer Worlds?  Was that released yet?

*one internet search later*

 

Nope.  Not for another two weeks.  Huh . . . then the mystery remains unsolved!

That's the 25th. I cannot wait.

[Infinitum]

Its also back to school season, 12 years passing has turned people like me into old farts with kids we have to get ready for bed, and also homework.

 

So I would imagine some of the younger players are back to HS or college as well.

 

I know for a fact 4 of my groups regulars are back to school, or has kids that are, and it's just a busy time.

[Troo]

Maybe dual boxers have short attention spans?

[SaintD]

Destiny 2 came out on Steam.

[boggo2300]

4 hours ago, Troo said:

Maybe dual boxers have short attention spans?

well kinda by definition, if they didn't they wouldn't be dual boxing 😄

[Herotu]

I think AE grinding has limited appeal. 

[EmmySky]

On 10/11/2019 at 5:18 AM, Herotu said:

I think AE grinding has limited appeal. 

This! 

Edited October 13, 2019 by EmmySky

[Herotu]

I believe that text-oriented missions have had their time - it'd be great to have some kind of text-to-speech to bring the mission system more up-to-date. I do realise that'd be a lot of work so I don't expect anything to happen. :)

[Clave Dark 5]

To the question: maybe?  Seems that, as with Live, I managed to pick the server with the lowest population, which is nearly dead at the hours I tend to play, which is overnight.  Yay me!  Anyone need a duo or someone for a team on Indomitable, let me know!

 

I figure it's school, the other games, and the crush of OMG the game is back! being over now.  I don't think we're sudden;y going to reduce down to bare bones population anytime soon.  But we might have to switch servers or something, or that might just be me.

[THEDarkTyger]

17 hours ago, quixoteprog said:

I rarely checked the server numbers but just my personal experience has been that Excelsior used to be at high with three red dots almost every time I logged on, no matter if it was right after work or dinner of for a quick few missions before bed, weekdays or weekends. Now it is low to moderate, with one or two yellow dots.

One thing to remember is that those dots are server load, which does not necessarily directly correlate to population. It's dependent on what those people are doing at the time. Upgrades in server capacity and/or power can lower the server load with the same population. I'm not saying the population isn't down, just that the dots aren't an absolute indicator. It wouldn't be unexpected if it is, the initial flood is dying off. But that's not anything to panic over.

Edited October 11, 2019 by THEDarkTyger

[Shred Monkey]

Playing on Excelsior.   Been back about 1 month.  Frankly, I'm shocked at how easily I can get a team to do almost anything I want.  Frankly, I don't remember Live being this easy to gather TF groups and Radio teams.  So, if the population is down, it's not hurting anything yet.

 

And, I agree with the comment above about disliking the Holloween event.