Hot as heck for February!

In other news, I wanted to congratulate Zorg Empire on 3000 (or 2999) players. Everybody keep inviting people you know!

^^

Soon this number will start to drop though as we will activate auto deletion of inactive players

Zorg wrote:^^

Soon this number will start to drop though as we will activate auto deletion of inactive players

Keep it slow, as far as I'm concerned; active newcomers can use the easy pickings to get a jump-start on their pitch for interstellar domination. I know I took advantage of it.

As a general rule I don't pick on new players who do nothing to bring death upon them. Until they probe me.

GAMERA SMASH!

Of course, it is a strategy and this is why we are thinking to put a long period (something like 21 days of inactivity).

We need to do this for server issues as well; inactive account just eat up cpu time and bandwidth (especially when calculating statistics) that is otherwise useless. Yesterday we spent like 4 hours trying to debug the ranking of alliances which was not showing up at all! (Perhaps you noticed). Eventually we found the source and fixed it and I can tell that the big number of players played a role there.

In other news, the real activity of the server shows up in online players; the higher this is, the better
In general, we are happy with player activity and game progress so far and we are doing our best to keep the server in top speed

Great relationship between forum subject and actual content!

Sorry, was trying to dispel the former drama level with a little levity, but didn't want to be totally off-topic. :/