start up - most people hang around in the centre (starting point, once explored, good trade runs, max % of activity)
waxing - most people are hanging around in the centre, but some are starting to move away, as pirate activity is getting stronger
stable - server population pretty evenly spread. pirates are everywhere, traders need to find escorts, lots of things for police to do, server pop limits get expanded, waiting list for server slots as people are joining because (busy server)
waning - less activity out in the edgeworlds, more concentrated in the centre.
What happened to liberty piracy? if you want to boost omicron activity, create LR/Hacker/Xeno ganksquads. pirate the shizzle out of people, and they will move to where it is safe.
Humanity didn't leave the trees and start walking across the savannah 25million years ago just because someone said 'we should spread ourselves out'. we left because the forests got crowded, and the nasty bigger monkeys kept stealing all our food.
if you want lonelicron activity, become a pirate in liberty. FORCE THEM WITH PEW also close conn, remove restarts, drop the interaction-killing buffer systems, and stop handing out free copies of disco to other servers
