It might be only me, but have you also noticed more and more posts about certain space beeing empty?
Kusari = Few players
Bretonia = Few Players
Rheinland = a slightly bit more than few people
Gallia = Empty
Sigmas = once and a while a smuggler or a trader, thats about it
Well i can only take a guess, but Taus, Omicrons, Omegas and Liberty might be slightly over representated
at the curret player peaks.
(hmm what shall i do today, yea lets hang around outside freeport 11, Crete, Malta or Toledo)
::::secretly logs in with an praefect to hang around outside planet crete::::
It's a combination of omicrons being just awful for so many reasons, NY issues, and the fact the server has over 100 systems it really does not need at all. OH SWEET MINNESOTA?!?!
Maby some systems dont need to be fixed so that they get a better appearance and therfor more people in them. Maby one should attack the matter from a different angle. Maby instead of trying to crowd certain ''uncrowded'' places one should make one own more appealing. So that people by some strange magic always want to be where you have your chars, if you are enough appealing and nice and good playing. You will never be in empty space, cause people will log in to be around you!
(hmm, dont think i even belive half the **** i wrote myselfe) :D
This issue has been around for a long time, and I now have a new answer for it.
Instead of complaining, make some characters in those areas. Make it more active instead of just bitching about it being deserted.
It's not the fact the systems are ugly.
[17:45:39] Wolfs Ghost (Murphy): Tom, you have problems. Go kill yourself.
[19:25:12] Johnny (Jam): Tomtom, I will beat you with a spoon.
[14:22:56] Prarabdh Thakur: KILL HIM WITH A SHEEP.
[17:40:48] Eagle (Junes): Tom should be slapped with a spoon.
[11:32:18] Warspite: Thank you for being so awesome Tom. <3
[18:17:36] Metano: I love you tomtom
[20:06:24] Warspite: I will seriously give you epic head.
' Wrote:Edit: also, Tomtomrawr, fappin' like a boss.
I've noticed the same. Seems that there is hardly anyone on apart from peak times. I've been into NY lately and there is absolutely nothing happening. No oorp conversations across system chat, just silence and NPC's.
EDIT: could this be the beginning of Freelancers last hooray?
If you just play the game and make noise yourself, others are bound to join in. If you keep watching the negative things and don't do anything about it yourself, well, space doesn't change on its own.