All Player Stats - Data From KSoD Website

[legofanatikeren]

It's a known fact the "forces" is NOT based upon anything at al. It fluctuates by a few hundred, but doesn't reflect conflicts or ANYTHING.
Those numbers have no place in any argument about amount of players, anywhere, A much better estimate of all total players would be from conflict %, if you take into account players can appear as duplicates on different planets.

[DarkRebel]

It's a known fact the "forces" is NOT based upon anything at al. It fluctuates by a few hundred, but doesn't reflect conflicts or ANYTHING.
Those numbers have no place in any argument about amount of players, anywhere, A much better estimate of all total players would be from conflict %, if you take into account players can appear as duplicates on different planets.

Disagree.
In estimating overall player population trend, ksod data is much better than conflict %.
A player can participate in any number of conflicts (or none) at the same time. There is no reliable method to figure out how many.
Conflict participation varies too much, depending on the reward.
ksod population data is much more stable.
While ksod data does not give you an exact population count, it is the best data available in estimating population trend.

[Midge]

Yeah, taking into account the "Forces" per planet presented in game is a completely not smart thing to do.

The KSOD data includes all players that are in sqauds that have warred. That is an excessively large amount of the player base. I would say certainly over 90%. It does not just have to be commanders that have warred, but literally every single one in a squad that has warred.

You can choose not to believe this and erroneously think that over 1 million people are playing this game if it makes your bed warmer at night.

EDIT: And DarkRebel just pointed out the serious flaws in trying to use conflict data to estimate the pool. If 50% of the population is in three conflicts at once it would ad great inflation to the overall numbers.

[legofanatikeren]

It's a known fact the "forces" is NOT based upon anything at al. It fluctuates by a few hundred, but doesn't reflect conflicts or ANYTHING.
Those numbers have no place in any argument about amount of players, anywhere, A much better estimate of all total players would be from conflict %, if you take into account players can appear as duplicates on different planets.

Disagree.
In estimating overall player population trend, ksod data is much better than conflict %.
A player can participate in any number of conflicts (or none) at the same time. There is no reliable method to figure out how many.
Conflict participation varies too much, depending on the reward.
ksod population data is much more stable.
While ksod data does not give you an exact population count, it is the best data available in estimating population trend.

Pardon, I should have expressed myself clearer: I viewed the option of using the conflict % to determine a playerbase as "a much better estimate of all total players" than the "forces" displayed on each planet. I did NOT mean to imply the conflict % option was better reflectance than the Ksod data. Just that it was much better than the "forces" displayed.

In that way I much agree with many people here, including midge, and have expressed my own distinct reasons for equating the Ksod data with the only data I need to analyze the playerbase-situation and overall thriving of the game as per one month ago, in an earlier post here in this thread.

[Midge]

It's a known fact the "forces" is NOT based upon anything at al. It fluctuates by a few hundred, but doesn't reflect conflicts or ANYTHING.
Those numbers have no place in any argument about amount of players, anywhere, A much better estimate of all total players would be from conflict %, if you take into account players can appear as duplicates on different planets.

Disagree.
In estimating overall player population trend, ksod data is much better than conflict %.
A player can participate in any number of conflicts (or none) at the same time. There is no reliable method to figure out how many.
Conflict participation varies too much, depending on the reward.
ksod population data is much more stable.
While ksod data does not give you an exact population count, it is the best data available in estimating population trend.

Pardon, I should have expressed myself clearer: I viewed the option of using the conflict % to determine a playerbase as "a much better estimate of all total players" than the "forces" displayed on each planet. I did NOT mean to imply the conflict % option was better reflectance than the Ksod data. Just that it was much better than the "forces" displayed.

In that way I much agree with many people here, including midge, and have expressed my own distinct reasons for equating the Ksod data with the only data I need to analyze the playerbase-situation and overall thriving of the game as per one month ago, in an earlier post here in this thread.

Yeah ... that ....

What that guy said.

[DarkRebel]

@Lego, I misread your post. My apology.

[legofanatikeren]

Nah, guess I should've been clearer

[ObiWanKenobi2016]

These stats are from 5th November 2018

[ObiWanKenobi2016]

The figures show:

- The Empire faction has increased from 95,365 to 97,501 an increase of 2,136 commanders

- The Rebel faction has reduced from 72,164 to 70,373 a loss of 1,791 commanders.

The faction split is now 58:42 in the Empire's favour, as before.

The Empire faction increase follows a conflict for the much sought after rodian skin, a skin that buffs their GR. It seems to have reversed the loss of players over the previous month.

Although the equivalent skin was available for the Rebel faction, it was not a useful item for the current state of the game. There was therefore no similar incentive to encouraged Rebel faction players to continue playing.

The reduction in rebel faction commanders over this month is greater than the previous months. The exacerbation of the GR imbalance issue (whether perceived or accurate) may have exacerbated this.

Fortunately there is a New Hope for the Rebellion on this issue.

[EdibleKarlos]

The faction split is now 58:42 in the Empire's favour, as before.

So Brexit still means Brexit then