Does anyone have statistics on the actual player decrease over the long term? The statistics page only goes 30 days back.
Somewhere on the wiki, I saved a french version of a wiki page entry for the game. Player number is mentioned there, and it dates from July 2007 I believe.
I went to check, it's a 400 player drop since then. I'm pretty confident that player count was still raising when I wrote that article, though, so the actual drop since X date later was greater. If you look up the d-list archives, you'll see another message where I mention the decaying player count, so you could have another number to work with. No idea when that was, though... think it was within the last 2 years.
And this I can't really support, though, but seem to recall that activity rates were much higher back then, too. That these 2 lines were closer to the top line than they are now.
