legofanatikeren wrote: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.