Actually there is only 4 people on, Zaltaiz, Belannaer, Loffie, and Apog. I'm guessing the rest are constructs made by the wizards to emulate having lots of people on doing stuff, so they can figure out what went wrong. Since the number is steadily growing, I'm thinking they are stress testing it until it breaks, then figuring out what went wrong. Game will probably be down for at least a day, probably 2 or 3.
I know who is on since I used the Who command at the login page.
It just counts everyone who hangs on the login screen to the total online players number - in reality there's only wizards and a couple of players who managed to ninja themselves in before the lock.
I tried to log on to the game 30min after the time I knew boot comes and couldn't connect, had like 29 to boot once I got here so figured I would just wait and there for don't know if something happend before boot. I've been trying for the last 30 and still can't. Just wondering if anyone knows when it will be up again?
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