Ah, I misunderstood, then. But if you want to be able to hook up with 7 or 8 in a game on a reliable basis, then you have to have 30 or more playing the game at any one time. People are on different schedules, different time zones, and have different amounts of time that they can devote to gaming, so it you have 8 people in a game, it's likely that only one or two will be on when you are on, if you are lucky. We saw that on WoW before you and Taxman came over to the KGB, and we've seen it again in Eve.

That level of activity isn't exactly epic...

That is what I mean by achieving a critical mass. When you have enough people in a game where you can find a good group to run with regardless of the time of day you check in, then things begin to happen. You become known, and you have a presence, and before you know it, you can field 30 or 40 or more if you schedule a surge.

It's all in the numbers, and right now, the KGB has insufficient numbers to do well if we are fragmented across multiple games.

That's just the cold hard truth of it...

To the everlasting glory of the infantry...

Owain ab Arawn
KGB Supreme Knight
King's High Council