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Hello all,

I wondered recently if what I perceived as a slight decline in our
population was, in fact, a true measure of things in the donut. So, I
threw a few hay bales into the old census furnace and cranked the wheel
a few times. Here's what emerged from the fires:

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|             Comparing player activity over two time periods:               |
|                      A: Jan 01 2017 - Mar 01 2017                          |
|                      B: Jan 01 2018 - Mar 01 2018                          |
+-------+-------+-------+----------+--+-----------+-------+-------+----------+
| Hour  |   A   |   B   | % change |  | Weekday   |   A   |   B   | % change |
+-------+-------+-------+----------+  +-----------+-------+-------+----------+
| 00.00 | 36.28 | 39.98 |  +10.19 %|  | Sunday    | 32.45 | 35.34 |   +8.87 %|
| 01.00 | 34.51 | 37.58 |   +8.88 %|  | Monday    | 32.11 | 33.53 |   +4.42 %|
| 02.00 | 34.08 | 38.39 |  +12.66 %|  | Tuesday   | 32.13 | 33.19 |   +3.30 %|
| 03.00 | 34.18 | 39.20 |  +14.67 %|  | Wednesday | 31.41 | 33.44 |   +6.45 %|
| 04.00 | 33.58 | 38.35 |  +14.19 %|  | Thursday  | 31.41 | 32.82 |   +4.49 %|
| 05.00 | 30    | 36.33 |  +21.11 %|  | Friday    | 30.93 | 33.47 |   +8.21 %|
| 06.00 | 26.85 | 34.04 |  +26.81 %|  | Saturday  | 31.59 | 36.60 |  +15.87 %|
| 07.00 | 24.66 | 28.75 |  +16.55 %|  +-----------+-------+-------+----------+
| 08.00 | 23.53 | 26.86 |  +14.16 %|                                         |
| 09.00 | 23.60 | 26.64 |  +12.92 %|                                         |
| 10.00 | 23.53 | 26.75 |  +13.66 %|  +--------------------------------------+
| 11.00 | 23    | 26.51 |  +15.28 %|  |       - - - Field  Sizes - - -       |
| 12.00 | 25.23 | 26.43 |   +4.75 %|  | Number of days in Period A:      60  |
| 13.00 | 26.64 | 27.21 |   +2.12 %|  | Number of days in Period B:      60  |
| 14.00 | 29.30 | 29.64 |   +1.19 %|  +--------------------------------------+
| 15.00 | 32.64 | 32.04 |   -1.83 %|                                         |
| 16.00 | 36.06 | 33.85 |   -6.14 %|                                         |
| 17.00 | 38.48 | 36.46 |   -5.24 %|  +--------------------------------------+
| 18.00 | 40.83 | 39.79 |   -2.53 %|  |           Overall Summary            |
| 19.00 | 44.10 | 43.63 |   -1.05 %|  +--------------------------------------+
| 20.00 | 44.76 | 44.58 |   -0.40 %|  | Overall average for Period A:  31.74 |
| 21.00 | 43.29 | 44.60 |   +3.00 %|  | Overall average for Period B:  34.00 |
| 22.00 | 41.46 | 44.54 |   +7.43 %|  |                                      |
| 23.00 | 39.03 | 43.95 |  +12.59 %|  | Overall increase/decrease:  +7.127 % |
+-------+-------+-------+----------+--+--------------------------------------+

So - I was wrong! We are, in fact, doing a bit better than we were at this
time last year. Excellent! I've enjoyed digging into the game with renewed
vigor myself again lately, and I think a few of you have recently returned
to do the same. New guilds on the horizon coupled with some that have just
opened or been revised means many of you are in the process of establishing
the new norms for global guild dynamics and adventuring styles.

More to come in the next few months! :-)

Onwards and upwards,
G.