>> While total membership was growing towards 9,000 players,
>> the number of active players hovered around 6,000 for over
>> 6 months, based on the posts I've read.

>Must have been a misunderstanding (or simply false information). They
>have posted active subscription numbers only twice: in March it was
>8,000, in December 6,000. Six months before December they didn't even
>have close to 6,000 subscriptions total.

That would explain the apparent delay between updates in posts I've
read. Seemed like I read 6,000 active players at RSC before last
December but with RSC down I can't confirm this.