I just want another number showing the number of online players in Dust. Like this:

EVE: X
Dust 514: X

Well for estimation purposes only; you take peak and you then multiply it by the how many fractions of a play session over a day there are and you'd get about a ball park of the total active population so with a play session being about 15-30 likely being average you multiply it by anywhere from 96x(as there are 96 quater hour sessions a day) to 48x(as there are 48 half hour sessions a day)

More typical MMO games have longer sessions at an hour to two so the multipliers there would be x24 (wow like mmos where you can do alot in an hour) or x12 (eve like mmos where it takes a few hours to do something)

This estimate is about up to 30% off from actual on the few games I can get population numbers for.

Just because it says 3k people now; doesn't mean its the same 3k people over the 24 hours, No game has this be fact. Players will log off and players will log on. There are peaks generally in the timezones where the game is most popular and vice versa. Some days of the week are more popular than others as well.

The API is known to only spit out information ever 5 minutes I think it was so someone who quickly logs in and out could possibly DODGE the eve offline tool as well but until information on how it counts people (does it count everyone in the last 5 minutes or the snap shot right then and there) is not known to me.

Well for estimation purposes only; you take peak and you then multiply it by the how many fractions of a play session over a day there are and you'd get about a ball park of the total active population so with a play session being about 15-30 likely being average you multiply it by anywhere from 96x(as there are 96 quater hour sessions a day) to 48x(as there are 48 half hour sessions a day)

More typical MMO games have longer sessions at an hour to two so the multipliers there would be x24 (wow like mmos where you can do alot in an hour) or x12 (eve like mmos where it takes a few hours to do something)

This estimate is about up to 30% off from actual on the few games I can get population numbers for.

Just because it says 3k people now; doesn't mean its the same 3k people over the 24 hours, No game has this be fact. Players will log off and players will log on. There are peaks generally in the timezones where the game is most popular and vice versa. Some days of the week are more popular than others as well.

The API is known to only spit out information ever 5 minutes I think it was so someone who quickly logs in and out could possibly DODGE the eve offline tool as well but until information on how it counts people (does it count everyone in the last 5 minutes or the snap shot right then and there) is not known to me.

Well for estimation purposes only; you take peak and you then multiply it by the how many fractions of a play session over a day there are and you'd get about a ball park of the total active population so with a play session being about 15-30 likely being average you multiply it by anywhere from 96x(as there are 96 quater hour sessions a day) to 48x(as there are 48 half hour sessions a day)

More typical MMO games have longer sessions at an hour to two so the multipliers there would be x24 (wow like mmos where you can do alot in an hour) or x12 (eve like mmos where it takes a few hours to do something)

This estimate is about up to 30% off from actual on the few games I can get population numbers for.

Just because it says 3k people now; doesn't mean its the same 3k people over the 24 hours, No game has this be fact. Players will log off and players will log on. There are peaks generally in the timezones where the game is most popular and vice versa. Some days of the week are more popular than others as well.

The API is known to only spit out information ever 5 minutes I think it was so someone who quickly logs in and out could possibly DODGE the eve offline tool as well but until information on how it counts people (does it count everyone in the last 5 minutes or the snap shot right then and there) is not known to me.

For example:
I have two of the 4 public game-modes selected, so I should be getting into half of the current games, but here I sit for the last three hours, doing laundry, making breakfast, tuning my bike, while the waiting counter just ticks on by.

A few minutes ago, I had a couple of really fun matches in BF1943, if that counts. It's been up and running since 2009, and is almost always fully populated with many matches running concurrently.

For example:
I have two of the 4 public game-modes selected, so I should be getting into half of the current games, but here I sit for the last three hours, doing laundry, making breakfast, tuning my bike, while the waiting counter just ticks on by.

A few minutes ago, I had a couple of really fun matches in BF1943, if that counts. It's been up and running since 2009, and is almost always fully populated with many matches running concurrently.

Monday only 1,500- 2000 lol ... friday - sunday more 3,500.

Non disclosure agreements are a *****.

And there is absolutely no indication I have ever received from speaking to CPM past or present to indicate that CCP gives them the actual login-per-day numbers.

And since that is a number that can be used to negatively affect a F2P game, via PR and as a metric that can be used by a competitor, the odds of it not being NDA is approaching zero rapidly.

Have you played the game lately? We can't even get 16 dudes my team consecutively lol!

Sadly, the answer is not a enough f*cking people!

CCP needs to advertise the d*mn game! Even if only on YouTube for crying out loud! Put out some individual premotion videos of races, suits, tanks, dropships, etc.

Also, eliminate exploits faster so players who do play stay!