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The devs are working on an update as much as there are Boundless devs to begin with. In other words, there are no “devs” for Boundless atm and there are no plans to resume development any time soon.
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thank god, I was already worried I had to play
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I thought you guys had all stopped playing? Bit weird to hang about a forum for a game you no longer play!
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Nah i did not stop boundless, dont play on the normal servers anymore.
A few of us started our own servers, its very nice to play with just friends.
Took some time to get it working, but it was worth it.
to be fair, there are an awful lot of people who have stopped playing who still peruse the forum - hoping that one day there might be enough communication that would give them a reason to come back. I know this because I have contact with old guild members - from The Shire, long before we set up GELF - but also some from GELF, who stopped playing in the long silence before Monumental bought the game - and I can say the long silence from Monumental doesn’t give them any reasons to come back.
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I just don’t understand why you would stop playing a game because the Devs didn’t talk to you every day, if you enjoy the features of the game.
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Sadly, none of this is new we have had pretty much radio silence for what? 2 years or more? James started the radio silence and it’s really just continued minus the few posts about the game being picked up by Monumental, some introductions and well Monty donating some money to one of the players new PC (which gave me some hope).
I think there are some deep pockets with Monumental and that is more than obvious with the purchase of Kongregate. In 2017 Kongregate sold for $55 million. I can only imagine the dollar amount spent on it in today’s economy.
All this said, the money is there, the possibility to purchase developers or leverage in-house devs from whatever means Monumental may have access to which I would imagine should be a few is there. What is not there is communication.
I quit for 3 months, and I had very little intentions on coming back and yet I am back and really having a hard fight on wanting to build something large because it could be gone tomorrow, and it was the main reason I quit, it’s hard to commit time to a game that has a questionable future and on top of that, speaking for myself, I love the game… I always will, but when you have an owner that doesn’t express the same love for the game … it does make one question many things. The silence … also doesn’t help.
I tend to agree, play the game or don’t, but I personally find it hard to support a game… monetarily and even mentally at times where the owner’s almost seem to not give a damn.
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Like @Eneitgranny says. A lot of people are still on the forums.
Sad is that the forums are more active than the game.
We will be around for most likely all kinds of different reasons… if you like it or not we will be here. It is a public forum. Even people who don’t own the game can sign up and be active on the forums.
If you don’t like what we write then start a discussion or ignore us, simple.
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Id beg to differ really … the live server … not including the server or servers Fortunist mentions have a peak of around 75 players … I don’t see 75 typing on the forums.
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Where is that peak of 75 players in Boundless ? Average is more like 38 right now. THAT data we do have.
You don’t have the real data on the forums so we can argue all day long about numbers on forum participation.
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I said peak not average.
But your average is nearly correct.
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But don’t only cherry pick the peak values and make it all sound better than it really is.
Now place the lowest numbers as well and please stick to the average numbers for a way more fair overview.
I said the peak player count is 75 … and its probably higher considering private planets etc. It’s not cherry picking. Its stating the peak player count of 75ish which is true.
Sharing the lowest numbers though … during off peak times … the player count has been around 15.
I suppose that’s cherry picking too. Taking other games into account during off peak hours there is anywhere between 35-50% drop in player count during off peak hours. Of course there are holidays, weekends etc. etc. You need data… I’ve got it as does Host.
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I have the basic script too. I know the numbers. Average is about 38 right now.
That is really low for a MMO like this. No advertising or any attempt to get more players was done at all.
No wonder people stop playing. Just wait till they switch off the servers and blaim the community for not playing the game anymore.
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I’ll be on this evening, like I am most evenings when all is cool kids are around. So there’s a stat your scripts don’t take into account. 
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We can go back and forth all day currently 51 players online.
But I agree, no advertising or communication is a killer.
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Yeah depends when you do the scan.
I like more random scans:
12-20-2023 15:48,Players 55,Planets: 312
12-20-2023 15:50,Players 55,Planets: 312
12-20-2023 19:57,Players 56,Planets: 312
12-21-2023 01:42,Players 65,Planets: 310
12-21-2023 04:09,Players 66,Planets: 310
12-21-2023 14:50,Players 45,Planets: 310
12-24-2023 19:11,Players 44,Planets: 301
12-25-2023 18:25,Players 40,Planets: 299
12-28-2023 03:02,Players 68,Planets: 301
12-28-2023 22:16,Players 56,Planets: 299
12-29-2023 21:07,Players 65,Planets: 296
12-31-2023 21:56,Players 40,Planets: 296
01-01-2024 01:55,Players 58,Planets: 297
01-02-2024 21:54,Players 51,Planets: 299
01-02-2024 22:23,Players 50,Planets: 299
01-02-2024 23:36,Players 48,Planets: 299
01-03-2024 21:33,Players 51,Planets: 299
01-05-2024 02:53,Players 54,Planets: 295
01-06-2024 15:14,Players 33,Planets: 291
01-06-2024 16:21,Players 45,Planets: 290
01-06-2024 22:21,Players 58,Planets: 290
01-06-2024 23:29,Players 66,Planets: 290
01-08-2024 22:10,Players 55,Planets: 288
01-09-2024 06:53,Players 31,Planets: 288
01-10-2024 06:28,Players 33,Planets: 287
01-10-2024 15:01,Players 29,Planets: 286
01-11-2024 11:39,Players 25,Planets: 288
01-11-2024 16:37,Players 40,Planets: 287
01-12-2024 13:48,Players 29,Planets: 289
01-12-2024 17:12,Players 55,Planets: 290
01-13-2024 01:14,Players 49,Planets: 291
01-13-2024 09:22,Players 29,Planets: 291
01-13-2024 12:41,Players 37,Planets: 291
01-14-2024 02:44,Players 61,Planets: 291
01-14-2024 07:48,Players 48,Planets: 292
01-14-2024 15:29,Players 46,Planets: 294
01-15-2024 20:58,Players 57,Planets: 294
01-16-2024 12:41,Players 40,Planets: 294
01-16-2024 18:16,Players 65,Planets: 293
01-17-2024 05:49,Players 49,Planets: 293
01-17-2024 17:40,Players 57,Planets: 294
01-17-2024 23:21,Players 54,Planets: 294
01-18-2024 12:47,Players 31,Planets: 295
01-19-2024 14:25,Players 31,Planets: 295
01-19-2024 19:36,Players 47,Planets: 295
01-20-2024 00:09,Players 61,Planets: 294
01-22-2024 10:32,Players 34,Planets: 291
01-23-2024 00:46,Players 61,Planets: 290
01-24-2024 18:01,Players 50,Planets: 292
01-25-2024 19:00,Players 59,Planets: 291
01-25-2024 23:14,Players 54,Planets: 292
01-26-2024 15:36,Players 38,Planets: 292
01-27-2024 15:04,Players 44,Planets: 286
01-28-2024 20:30,Players 69,Planets: 283
01-29-2024 20:15,Players 52,Planets: 283
01-30-2024 02:37,Players 49,Planets: 283
01-30-2024 20:30,Players 55,Planets: 285
02-01-2024 00:29,Players 53,Planets: 285
02-01-2024 09:52,Players 37,Planets: 286
02-02-2024 06:41,Players 36,Planets: 284
02-03-2024 02:43,Players 55,Planets: 284
02-03-2024 13:06,Players 40,Planets: 283
02-03-2024 23:46,Players 67,Planets: 283
02-05-2024 13:38,Players 31,Planets: 281
02-05-2024 23:30,Players 45,Planets: 281
02-06-2024 18:48,Players 45,Planets: 282
02-06-2024 20:56,Players 44,Planets: 282
02-08-2024 06:31,Players 34,Planets: 281
02-08-2024 16:56,Players 46,Planets: 278
02-08-2024 21:08,Players 39,Planets: 278
02-09-2024 09:36,Players 21,Planets: 277
02-09-2024 13:02,Players 35,Planets: 277
02-09-2024 19:53,Players 42,Planets: 278
02-10-2024 00:11,Players 43,Planets: 278
02-10-2024 11:05,Players 29,Planets: 278
02-10-2024 16:23,Players 44,Planets: 278
02-11-2024 10:01,Players 27,Planets: 276
02-11-2024 19:49,Players 61,Planets: 274
02-12-2024 09:13,Players 14,Planets: 273
02-12-2024 11:54,Players 17,Planets: 273
02-12-2024 16:36,Players 41,Planets: 272
02-12-2024 20:29,Players 44,Planets: 272
02-13-2024 09:12,Players 19,Planets: 271
02-13-2024 17:44,Players 37,Planets: 271
02-14-2024 09:07,Players 27,Planets: 269
02-15-2024 08:13,Players 18,Planets: 270
02-15-2024 15:42,Players 43,Planets: 270
02-16-2024 12:40,Players 24,Planets: 271
02-16-2024 18:12,Players 43,Planets: 270
02-16-2024 23:22,Players 48,Planets: 269
02-18-2024 11:45,Players 22,Planets: 262
02-18-2024 16:16,Players 47,Planets: 262
02-19-2024 12:07,Players 21,Planets: 258
02-20-2024 14:32,Players 25,Planets: 261
02-21-2024 17:00,Players 34,Planets: 262
02-21-2024 20:49,Players 38,Planets: 261
02-22-2024 07:27,Players 26,Planets: 264
02-23-2024 17:32,Players 43,Planets: 262
02-23-2024 22:56,Players 49,Planets: 262
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Awesome glad others keep tabs on data. Mine is much more frequent though so I can update a website close to real time.
Connecting some local servers are pretty easy to setup if you know what you’re doing 
Anyways, instead of debating on the correct counts and stuff, I’m just going to go play the game. I wish you much luck in your endeavors.
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