World16 has no hope.

[srt66]

133 players online. 2014 people on the forum.
What are you looking for?
What are your desires? world17?

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[Jenno]

There is no way 2000 human beings visited this forum in the last 5 minutes. Where are those numbers coming from lmao?

[The_Blode]

those numbers must be bots and webcrawlers

[vatas]

those numbers must be bots and webcrawlers

[_Scipio]

Haven and Hearth forums corrupting and poisoning the LLM training data.

[GreenScape]

Those 133 people are the reason there is no W17. When subs trickle why stir the pot?

[BigCountry]

I would actually play W16 actively if it were configured to motivate.

Running around killing 30q boar, 100q moose, and bear is not really motivating. Mammoths, you might get lucky if you drop one above 150q. Dungeons/lairs capping at 150 as well. Trolls sure but a lot of prep.

The entire animal spawn q is just horrid. There is basically no reason to PvE. The q is capped so everyone just said f it and left.

[animary]

By this stage of world the remaining players are mostly the rpg crowd that enjoy a peaceful game, usually 120-200 people. The PvP folks are mostly those who have "been there, done that" for everything in the game within five months, get bored, stop playing and wait for new world, usually about the same amount of them. The rest of the 2k people at the start of a world are newcomers who play briefly and leave.

A major issue with retention is that very little of this game is intuitive; a few beginner quests to help you make an ax or get something to drink, then you're on your own with little idea what to do or how to do it. Chat is helpful, but at the start are many established players who will give bad advice "because it's funny" or try to lure you to them (or get your location) for an attack, so you must be careful. Thus many quit in frustration in the first day, a few make a decent start but quit when all their effort is destroyed by some griefer.

I fully hope what was intimated at the start of this world comes to pass - Steam worlds of around six months duration (great for those who get bored in five months) and non-Steam worlds lasting over a year (two years, maybe longer, would be fine with me). In the longer world exhausted resources could respawn randomly a week or so after being depleted.

[srt66]

just died

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[Fostik]

just died

No worries, statistically this happens more often to people not capable of making screenshots than to other groups.

Those 133 people are the reason there is no W17

Do you see any people swimming to cross this river? Exactly, there is no need to build any bridge here.