SC is similar to E-D in that respect...players congregate around choke points/mission targets for PvP opportunities. At my particular home spawn point of Levski, there's always folks running about delivering boxes and collecting missions. It's very rare I see it empty...but that doesn't mean it's crawling with players either Half a dozen or so players by the time it takes me to collect a ship/mission and scoot outta there is around average.You don't get to stay in a senior position at CIG unless you're skilled at massaging Roberts' ego.
And yet any time I watch a stream of someone playing alone rather than with a coordinated group of mates they spend most of their time aimlessly running around dead locations populated with zombie NPCs, and rarely encounter anyone else. A full server doesn't really mean much, even in SC's micro-verse, when the game can handle so few players to start with. I'm sure when the diffusion server meshing comes online and they have hundreds of thousands of players in the same instance it will be a different story, not that that will ever happen.
Judging purely by the chat, most folks hang around ArcCorps or Lorville either sight seeing or collecting missions for the drugs lab...which is fine by me. If they're down there, they're not shooting up my flying target of a prospector when I'm trying to do some mining in peace.
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