There is absolutely nobody on right now. Just a bunch of claimed plots that all look the same in towns and villages that all look the same. Where are you guys?
I'm just here running against an invisible force field that looks like it leads to open land.... trying to find my way back to the fifi map. But every time I alt-tab out to check the forums it boots me out.
I was on a bit, but I've been very busy this weekend. Also, it's crashing for me more than R4 (though performance seems to be better otherwise).
I am curious to see if less people are logging on or if it just a case of it seems like there is less people because people are more spread out. I mean in previous releases there wasn't much to do but maybe craft a bit and wander around 2-3 towns looking at houses and talking to npcs. Even in the last release with combat being such a pain and there not being a lot of places to explore still I bet a lot of people still stayed around the towns. Now combat actually works fairly well *still needs a lot of work of course though* and we have quite a bit more to go explore. Not to mention with the changes to the chat channels you can no longer hear people all over the world speaking. So that I think makes it feel a lot emptier as well. Of course it is also possible that less people are logging on.