Where is everyone?

Anyone else worried that theres so little traffic on here 2 days from headstart? I mean, before the STO headstart we had a ton of people on here and in the IRC chatroom and vent. Now, theres hardly every more than 8-10 people logged in. We had over 100 members who signed up on the tor site right? where is everyone?

I've cleaned my entire house, did the laundry and rolled a new lock in wow all just to keep my mind off SWTOR because I'm going nuts waiting. :pinch:

I've never had a game grab hold of me like this.

How many members does the guild have now?

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It's a good question. I've noticed that we've had many more guests online than usual (100+ as I'm writing this), so maybe that's related, but you can't see much when logged in as a guest.

Ponder, ponder, ponder...

yeah, i noticed that too. maybe thats where they are. theyre sneaking about.

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I've cleaned my entire house, did the laundry and rolled a new lock in wow all just to keep my mind off SWTOR because I'm going nuts waiting. :pinch:

I've never had a game grab hold of me like this.

See... I wish I could be productive like you! I've been watching Youtube videos of SWTOR gameplay. Naturally that only makes things worse :(.

Finished my Christmas shopping today (I think), cleaned up the apartment, checked the BioWare Social Network for a message from an artist who've I commissioned artwork from and have been monitoring the SWTOR launcher just in case they try sneaking in another patch.

Oh, and the finale to "The Amazing Race" starts in 35 minutes so I'll be watching that.

(Translation: I'm doing everything possible to keep my mind off the fact that e-mails should be going out tomorrow that will finally say what server we're on and when we can access the game.)

Oh, look - the underside of my tables need cleaning...

i myself have been catching up my other games. Skyrim was just beaten now. next is batman ac then i am ready for swtor on tuesday

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i myself have been catching up my other games. Skyrim was just beaten now. next is batman ac then i am ready for swtor on tuesday

Finished Batman: Arkham City before jumping into Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Saints Row: The Third. After having participated in SW:TOR beta, I can say that Batman, by far, is the best game I've played, probably, all year. That's saying a lot because both Assassin's Creed and Saint's Row are great games by themselves (for vastly different reasons). I haven't played Skyrim yet because I just never could get caught up in Oblivion. I'll probably pick it up when it's massively discounted on Steam to see if it's enough of a departure to keep me playing.

That aside I've been busy as hell decorating, cooking and cleaning in preparation for Christmas, and working on the Stonewall Times in hopes I can get the layout done and the issue distributed before Tuesday.

Like many of the others have mentioned so far, I'm trying to keep busy doing the things around the house that need to get done before we get buried in snow this winter, decorating for christmas.

Doesn't mean I'm not chomping at the bit to play some SWTOR!

plainly, I've been working.

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plainly, I've been working.

Same here... the harsh and painful reality of life :blush:

Working and cleaning before Christmas, I have family over for Christmas dinner this weekend (brother: You are going to give up six hours of early access to feed us all?). I've also hit Skyrim and AC:R/SR3 hard to stave off the SWTOR shakes.

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Anyone else worried that theres so little traffic on here 2 days from headstart? I mean, before the STO headstart we had a ton of people on here and in the IRC chatroom and vent. Now, theres hardly every more than 8-10 people logged in. We had over 100 members who signed up on the tor site right? where is everyone?

The launch of TOR is very different from the launch of STO. First of all, when Stonewall Fleet started we were a very small tight knit group who was use to using the IRC channel as our only means of communication. Now, we're much larger we have vent and in-game chat to do a lot of that stuff. The forums have been much more active as late though.

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As far as the high visitor count, I asked Doogiegood a couple weeks ago to say something to Nick and see, on the backside of the site what all the visitor blips are. If I was forced to speculate, I would bet that the vast majority are search engine bots. The Stonewall forums have all the keywords needed to show up on a Star Wars Knights of the old Republic search. And that topic is a hot search item right now.

The guest count on Online Users module is a bit crap. That number is pulled from a file that stored in a directory that shared across all the sites on our server. It's not a very good indicator. The best indicator is our analytics data that I post every month. According to it, yesterday, we had a 200% increase in site traffic over a month ago.

Both StonewallFleet.com and KnightsofStonewall.com are showing increased traffic probably due to the launch of Season 5 for Star Trek Online and the pending release for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

I've noticed a lot of "guests" when I log in and at times 20 or so members. I'm not to worried about the numbers as I think many folks are trying to keep themselfs busy till launch.

I do think you will see an increase in folks logging into vent once the game is out. Also more will come by the forums to look up information, we have many good links posted and very useful stuff under the tips and tricks post.

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Oh, and the finale to "The Amazing Race" starts in 35 minutes so I'll be watching that.

Thank the gods.. that stupid show keeps intruding on my good wife.