Faction Activity - January

[LunaticOnTheGrass]

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.:j:.Rattlehead     New London     161     0     10
[*USI*]Albuquerque[L-E]     New York     98     0     18
[*USI*]Chicago     New York     46     0     6
[*USI*]J.Nowakowsky[CA]     New York     92     0     0
[KNF]Ni.Katsumi.Takeda     New Tokyo     120     0     0
[SC]The.Boss     New Tokyo     207     0     8
[UC]UCN-Vendeur.1     Burgundy     369     0     2
^DragonFly^     Omicron Gamma     59     0     2
_atenza     Hamburg     54     0     2
_OZYRYS_     Lyonnais     31     0     0
|IDF|Thorkel     Languedoc     66     0     10
1Piu     Connecticut     59     0     0
4-56|LN-A.Henderson-B     New York     114     0     2
Active_Mars_Red_91     Colorado     49     0     8
Alternate_Galliger     Manchester     82     0     2
AmagetDOWN     New Berlin     418     0     46
AncientAnt     Newcastle     41     0     0
ArgRIB     New Berlin     467     0     0
Banshee     Omicron-81     64     0     2
Beowolf     Omega-55     51     0     0
BloodTrader     California     77     0     2
Bonus.BoxIV     Frankfurt     168     0     0
BRF|HMS-Sutton     Connecticut     53     0     0
Burnout     Hudson     100     0     0
Captain_Sao_Feng     Cambridge     58     0     0
Captain-Pellaeon     Omega-3     60     0     4
CARRIER     Ile-de-France     100     0     0
Carthage     Omicron Gamma     64     0     2
Cerulean!Reaver     California     42     0     0
Chaotic     California     194     1     14
Charlemagne     Provence     113     2     0
Charlotte.Dunois     New York     53     0     0
Dazed.and.Confused     Newcastle     153     0     8
Eden-Martina     Virginia     45     0     0
Edgnis     Omicron Mu     46     0     0
Eldrich     New Berlin     47     0     0
Elysium's_Gate     Omega-7     116     1     6
Englebert     New Berlin     48     0     0
evoga2     Tau-23     60     0     6
FLYNPCS     New Berlin     145     0     0
Forlavee_Junior     Sigma-17     196     0     0
Gamboge,.Reaver     New York     138     0     0
GMI-PierreMartin[T]     Picardy     59     0     10
Hank_Groger     New York     25     0     0
Hasbelt     New York     56     0     4
HMS-Striker     Connecticut     28     0     0
Horune     New York     59     0     0
IMG|Frank.Rogers[R]     Kyushu     64     0     4
IMG|Golden.Nebula     Omega-3     51     0     0
IMG|Julia:Morrow     Sigma-13     56     0     0
IMG|Mat.Evanz     Kyushu     49     0     4
IMG|Mr.Otwell.     Tau-23     53     0     6
IMG|Piper.Maru[R]     Kyushu     263     0     0
IMG|Redstone-4     Kyushu     66     0     12
IMG-Westrok     Tau-23     360     1     8
jibs     New York     101     0     0
Johnywalker     Pennsylvania     55     0     0
Kanis     New York     67     0     2
kreetzer     Hamburg     44     0     2
LNS-Bs.Massachusetts     Connecticut     126     0     16
LNS-Concord     New York     55     0     0
Loky     Alberta     43     0     0
Matilda_Antioch     California     42     0     0
Meta-Beepo     Newcastle     96     1     0
Michael.Minster     New Tokyo     66     0     0
MND|RNC-Col.Wallenstein     Connecticut     38     0     0
Moonwalker[13th]     Connecticut     43     0     0
MORPHONYX     Colorado     58     0     0
MV-Crayter     Okinawa     56     0     0
Ol'Scrappy     Texas     59     0     6
O'Rhu|CV-Sakir'har     Omicron Mu     55     0     10
Pale:Reaver     California     160     0     0
Partisan     Cambridge     145     0     0
Pedro.Rodriguez     New York     279     0     2
piroman     Galileo     48     0     0
Raistlin     New London     314     0     4
RM-Brandenburg     Connecticut     49     0     0
Roger_Groger     New York     28     0     2
Rognor     New York     73     0     4
S.I.D._ZETA_12     New York     173     0     0
Sillyband     Shikoku     209     0     0
Skinfaxi     Omicron Kappa     91     0     2
SW)The.Digger     New London     47     0     2
Tator,Salad     New London     155     0     6
The_Prophecy     California     190     0     0
Tiberia     Cambridge     55     0     6
Tony_Marani     Connecticut     34     0     0
Troy.Kingston     New York     279     0     20
Turmoil     Connecticut     171     0     2
USS_Defiant     Leeds     137     0     0
VI|CPM-Equality     Omega-7     122     0     0
VI|CPM-Glory     Koeln     42     0     0
VR-Paddy.Hughs     New Berlin     47     0     0
VR-Persia.de.Shahrizai     New Berlin     88     0     0
Xiaoge     Newcastle     47     0     0
Zantac     Dublin     54     0     0
Zuretz     Omega-3     254     0     0

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That's the playerlist I just took down. From my count (correct me if I'm wrong), I counted 19 Official-Faction ships logged in, out of 98-ish online players.

Laura C and Silver are completely correct. The playerlist above has approximately 1/5th Official-faction players logged on. Who knows what all the others are, but clearly most of them are either uninterested or unwilling to attempt to join an official faction for whatever reason.

I'm not sure how to fix the problem, but I'm thinking that official factions are going to slowly decline as they have been unless the Disco powers-that-be take some kind of means towards combating this.