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I've definitely noticed a decline in activity - and an increase in bots as well.

I placed seven out of ten all-stars this week. That's simply ridiculous.

There's still a decline, it fluctuates weekly. As I said two weeks ago the decline was only four. The decline today is much greater than the last two weeks, but I'd say you can't judge on one week. And its certainly not a 1000 in a month. Its been between 24-25000 for a couple of months at the very least.

I don't mind people saying there's a drop off in numbers but its irritating every time someone makes a guess about how many people have left. And not just guess, but state as an absolute fact that the number is right. They're always wrong, and its not that hard to find the actual number.

becouse as i said previous monday it was 24.1, now it is 23.9.

You got one right at least. Well done. 202 users down this week.

It was a bad week for the micronations: Costa Rica, South Africa, the UAE, Iceland, Panama and Morocco all lost a single user. Japan, home of the original portent of doom, joined the under 20s by shedding two users.

The biggest numerical drop was in China, who lost 24 users. I'd make a witticism about why that might be but this probably isn't the place.

Portugal and Sweden bucked the trend by adding a massive 3 users.

Once again, I find this all perfectly useless. The slow drip of the previous two weeks, compared to the bigger drop this week isn't statistical evidence of a sudden acceleration of quitters. Nor were the two slower weeks of losses indication of a slowdown or an approach of stability. However, it does make a change to see facts rather than fiction in one of these threads.

Just for the record, this was posted on the first page of this thread on July 13, 2014:

"I used to play between season 11 and season 22. I was a very active user back then and I remember between 50 and 60k users. When I returned two weeks ago I was shocked to see that there were only 27,000 left."

I have no reason to believe that this guy was making up those numbers, so that means since July 1, this game has lost roughly 3,000 players. That's about 600 per month.

As an aside, I dropped to US Div IV last season. In a season and a half, I have seen five or six teams in my league go bot. Roughly 25 percent of the 22 teams assigned to the league in Seasons 28 and 29. Players were not quitting at that rate when I was in Div. IV the first time (about 15 seasons ago).

I don't follow your point. Or why you replied specifically to my post. You don't like me posting exact numbers instead of estimates?

Just getting in on the discussion about how many players are quitting ... yours just happened to be the last post on the subject with numbers, so I replied to it.

And my point is, the post from July does give us some hard numbers on the net loss of players over the last five months, which is more telling than a sample of one or two weeks or someone's speculations.