So are you saying because i am not playing right now i am an inactive dust player?

No, I am saying your active as long as you play withing that time span. So your active in 24hours, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year. So if you play once in one year... Your active in 1 year but not 24 hours, 1 week, or 1 month. Which is way they have charts for each time period.

Dustboard shows 6M accounts...many collecting passive SP.

Expect a lot of talented 10M+ SP characters to suddenly become active with the introduction of better NPE, PVE, eve integration, etc.

Enjoy your limited success while it lasts...

people got different timezone dude some are asleep get it...and we don't play 24 hours a day we got jobs and other things to do.

Anyone who is better than me must not have a job or life. At least that's what I tell myself, to make myself feel better.

Don't think it is as dire as only 4000, but don't think it's 50000. Gotta take alts into account.

Wish they would improve the NPE, it's just going to get worse. Maybe make it 5 mil sp before graduation. This way, the new guys will have somewhat of a leg to stand on, and time invested to consider toughing it out, once they leave the academy.

Those numbers don't take into account the number of people logging in and not playing. After 1.8 all three of my accounts started to be logged daily for the bonus SP. My active game time is generally once a week.

So are you saying because i am not playing right now i am an inactive dust player?

did you look at the livefeed charts or just in plain denial?

i play almost cap my character every week, i have over 44mil SP but i am not logged in right now are you saying i am not an active player of this game?

Yes i know what server we run off of i play both Dust and EVE. the current player dust players logged in right now is 4,000 but people who actively play this game is over 50,000. just because i am not logged in at this second does not mean i am not an active dust player.

I'm not talking people on at this exact minute.

im talking about people who actively play dust even if it is a like one or two games a day.

Incorrect, that 4000 to 4550 during a weekly cycle these records are shown on live servers and are not wrong.

I highly doubt the total amount of people that play Dust is even close to that. I'd say it's close to 20,000 at the most.

There is only 4000 players active on a regular basis... This game has been out for that long and still have not grown an inch. We had the highest player count around 9000 during beta and than we remain at this pitiful player bases for nearly 2 years since beta. I have been gone for like 3 months and a few new weapons suits and gear have changed but no new content on maps, modes, exploration, MMO aspects, Eve intergration, or anything to get new players or even keep MMO players. This ***** just lobby shooting all day long.

http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust

So you are saying there were 4000 people logged in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a an entire month? Even on the one that says "Past 24 hours"? Please read your proof again and reconsider your logic.

Read this

If you look at new player creations you will see that we have a sizable amount of players with a account. This means that we have the numbers to support the 50000 players a day.

I feel like you had a main account that got banned before.

So you are saying there were 4000 people logged in 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a an entire month? Even on the one that says "Past 24 hours"? Please read your proof again and reconsider your logic.

Viktor Hadah Jr

The point is that 4,000 players online at the same time is not an acceptable number of people active in this game. 4,000 people online indicates that there are a low number of active Dust players in the community.

Having 20,000-60,000 people online at the same time, would be more acceptable number of players online as that would indicate a large flourishing playerbase in the hundreds of thousands.

Remember, this is a free to play game. These games need to retain as many players as they can, they need a large playerbase because only as small percentage of people actually spend any money on the game. And even fewer people are willing to spend hundreds or thousands on the game.

Also, the point of the OP's post is valid. The point is that Dust has become stagnant. It's hardly growing at all. We have a tiny hardcore playerbase, surrounded by loads of people who don't play this game very much except to participate in an event or new patch, and all of this is floating around an ocean of inactive accounts of the players who have no tolerance for bullshit game moment to moment game design and performance.

Realize that anyone giving CCP the benefit of the doubt is the vocal minority. The forgotten inactive accounts are the silent majority.

This gloom and doom crap again.

Dust like EVE does not appeal to most gamers. Most gamers like easy cookie cutter games they can beat or max out in a few months. Dust will never be like that. It will always change and will always have low player numbers when compared to other FPS games.

EVE only has a 500k player base. Compared to other mmos like WOW or even Star Wars the EVE's player count might be considered low. But EVE has constantly grown for many years.

And like Dust EVE had a rocky start. At the beginning many players were convinced EVE was dying and would fade away. Those players were wrong. Over the years EVE has grown from a game nobody hard of, to one that breaks records, makes international press and even has college courses that study EVE, its market and its social interactions.

Dust will only attract a small portion of gamers, but it will continue to grow. Once we make it past this rocky beginning, and most importantly once it is ported to PS4, the player base will continue to grow, albeit slowly.

how did you know? It because I speak the truth.

There is only 4000 players active on a regular basis... This game has been out for that long and still have not grown an inch. We had the highest player count around 9000 during beta and than we remain at this pitiful player bases for nearly 2 years since beta. I have been gone for like 3 months and a few new weapons suits and gear have changed but no new content on maps, modes, exploration, MMO aspects, Eve intergration, or anything to get new players or even keep MMO players. This ***** just lobby shooting all day long.

http://eve-offline.net/?server=dust

thats no even possible because the current record as it show on that same page is 8000 players period. Read the ******* charts.

Ok jackass I get paid to read charts ok? The servers send data to he chat every 5 min, you following me here right? If you look at the chart in the top right you will see that this is correct. If you see next to the player stats next to the 24hr max you will see a date heat date and time is within the last 24 hr correct? Yes it is because that is the max for the last 24 hrs got that?

Now obviously there is player turnover so that means that the max is only a snapshot during peak hours. I am not arguing the point that this player base is far to small I am saying that just because that the Max is 4000 ish dos NOT mean that only 400 logged on during the day. Now please stop calling people stupid because you can't understand and have to cherrypick your data.
Have a nice day

jesus fuk thank you, cant type out walls of text like that on my phone.