Jorb and Loftar check this out.

[Mario_Demorez]

Since Feb 17 2014 Jorb's post per day has been 6 while Loftar's has been around 1.6 post per day. I tried to attach a pie graph to show the percentages of their post in sub threads on the forum.

Jorb seems to be the front man when dealing with the community so the next part I only looked at his post.

In world 8 Jorb's post rate was 27 post a day.
In world 9 Jorb's post rate dropped to 8 post a day.
In world 10 Jorb's post rate decreased to 5 post a day.
In world 11 so far Jorb's post rate rose to 7 post a day.

From looking at the population tracker I noticed three things that seem to be backed up by the data and responses.

When "Update: Catapult Metallic" was released the population of the server started to fall in world 9. This is probably a good correlation due to the fact the siege system is considered broken at the moment.

When "Update: Thy Kingdom Come" was released the population of the server actually rose and stayed higher in world 9 after. This is probably due to the fact of having some sort of community forming that people could log into to socialize with.

Whenever there was a credo related update the population of the server had a rise. However, every update causes a rise of population but the population drops slower when its related to a credo. Thus, Credo updates retain higher populations.

[shubla]

Fake news about credos. There is no meaningful difference between player count rise from updates.

[Mario_Demorez]

Also. This world had the highest start than world 8-10. After about 2-3 months all worlds lost their initial population burst and leveled out. Its been 2-3 months since world start and our current population is higher or equal to what the other worlds started at, which is cool.

[Mario_Demorez]

World 8 had a population decline of 3 players a day.
World 9 had a population decline of 1 players a day.
World 10 had a population decline of 0.7 players a day.

[Mario_Demorez]

Fake news about credos. There is no meaningful difference between player count rise from updates.

Attached to this post is two pictures. The far most left U stands for an update. One of them is Credobility and the other is the Potter's credo. Before both updates is a steady population, after update its an increase that increase much longer than a normal update.

I mean it is pretty hard to prove it. But you can look at the data how ever you want.

[shubla]

Fake news about credos. There is no meaningful difference between player count rise from updates.

Attached to this post is two pictures. The far most left U stands for an update. One of them is Credobility and the other is the Potter's credo. Before both updates is a steady population, after update its an increase that increase much longer than a normal update.

I mean it is pretty hard to prove it. But you can look at the data how ever you want.

Player count also increased quite a lot after bone chests were added, does this mean that bone chests cause server population to rise?

No.