CANTR is growing again

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Chris
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby Chris » Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:01 pm

Cantr is not growing. Not even the Polish part. Short-term squiggles are noise. An honest look at the whole graph puts things in perspective.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby rd1988 » Tue Dec 13, 2016 12:13 am

Chris wrote:Cantr is not growing. Not even the Polish part. Short-term squiggles are noise. An honest look at the whole graph puts things in perspective.


Absolutely.

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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby Chemosh » Tue Dec 13, 2016 5:10 pm

rd1988 wrote:
Chris wrote:Cantr is not growing. Not even the Polish part. Short-term squiggles are noise. An honest look at the whole graph puts things in perspective.


Absolutely.

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If you do a look at the polish numbers in the same period as that graph we see the Polish population did have an increase though (Though obviously long term scale they are still down from a year ago). What is really interesting about the total players graph is that something appears to have happened between 4943 and 4966 that resulted in a 366 player drop.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby MattWithoos » Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:13 pm

What is really interesting about the total players graph is that something appears to have happened between 4943 and 4966 that resulted in a 366 player drop.


Inactive accounts that never had any activity were deleted from the system.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby Millhouse » Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:58 am

That's around the time the Portuguese numbers plunged. I still don't know what happened there. I happened to pass through some Portuguese towns around that time :shock:
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby MattWithoos » Wed Dec 14, 2016 3:23 am

It was the inactive accounts as I mentioned above :)

If you look through all language groups you'll see the same drop.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby Greek » Wed Dec 14, 2016 12:11 pm

Millhouse wrote:That's around the time the Portuguese numbers plunged. I still don't know what happened there. I happened to pass through some Portuguese towns around that time :shock:

It was introduction of the Portuguese intro town.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby Millhouse » Wed Dec 14, 2016 3:04 pm

Oh interesting. It looked like in-game like some huge massacre or mass suicide took place.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby knazari » Tue Dec 27, 2016 1:28 am

I saw this thread and immediately got excited, but then read the whole thing and got even more sad. Honestly, I feel like I could recruit some people if I went around to college campuses and posted fliers about Cantr, but that's a lot of work.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby Rmak » Tue Dec 27, 2016 2:09 am

439 now.

No point recruiting players if they can't even get approved in s timely manner
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby knazari » Tue Dec 27, 2016 5:40 am

Yeah, and I recently discovered the cantr subreddit. It looks like a lot of people are dissatisfied with the way the admins have been handling things.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby sherman » Tue Dec 27, 2016 9:47 am

Take the reddit with grain of salt. People there got some valid points but also seem to be a bit trolling and telling things too harshly. But that's normal social media way :)
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby rd1988 » Tue Dec 27, 2016 10:30 am

but also seem to be a bit trolling and telling things too harshly.


I don't see any trolling there - I do however see some uncensored discussion about true cantr issues.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby Blackdeath » Tue Dec 27, 2016 11:45 pm

Just fired up my account after being away for about 8 years (Spawned my first char back in 1024). The vibe has changed a bit, but there are still pockets of good RP.

I think new life can be breathed into it.
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Re: CANTR is growing again

Postby Mafia Salad » Wed Dec 28, 2016 1:39 am

Since I started playing again 8 or so months ago the EZ has been pretty steady. Players bouncing from 160 to 175, characters from 1140 to 1230, we were at 161 and 1162 today. On the lower end of the range but not striking new lows or anything. There doesn't seem to be any sustained upward or downward trend, just the typical cycle in and out. I don't see an eminent collapse or a brilliant revival. There have been shifts from place to place in population and activity, but no game wide collapse or boom.

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