EE PatronOct 2nd 2023, 2:09:23
Those are specifically alive countries at the end of the set. Dead ones aren't counted in the total.
Large scale wars almost always cause a major influx in membership due to warring tags recruiting old buddies back to the game, in addition to the current netting meta being very boring FFO only. You can play solo and win the game netting, but wars require members, so there's more motivation to recruit. The 10 largest membership sets of the last decade were all server wars, with those involving attacks on LaF generating the most, likely due to a rich history of pissing people in the community off and cheating in addition to a handful of old LaF kill team members who only ever play their war sets.
Peaceful sets and friendly war sets tend to steadily decline where major wars cause the only membership increases the game sees over the last several years.
Large scale wars almost always cause a major influx in membership due to warring tags recruiting old buddies back to the game, in addition to the current netting meta being very boring FFO only. You can play solo and win the game netting, but wars require members, so there's more motivation to recruit. The 10 largest membership sets of the last decade were all server wars, with those involving attacks on LaF generating the most, likely due to a rich history of pissing people in the community off and cheating in addition to a handful of old LaF kill team members who only ever play their war sets.
Peaceful sets and friendly war sets tend to steadily decline where major wars cause the only membership increases the game sees over the last several years.