Looking for other players from Moscow or Russia

[Gandalf Parker]

Actually Solo players seem to be the majority.
The sales on the game are incredible. The games sold do seem to get played. The MP players tend to register in order to get into games. Soloists tend to lurk more just to get answers or download files, then leave. But if you look at any time at the statistics on the forum, there are 2 or 3 unregistered viewers at any time for each registered viewer.

Personally I still continue to enjoy solo play over mp play even after all these years (since mid 2001).

[lch]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Actually Solo players seem to be the majority.
The sales on the game are incredible. The games sold do seem to get played. The MP players tend to register in order to get into games. Soloists tend to lurk more just to get answers or download files, then leave. But if you look at any time at the statistics on the forum, there are 2 or 3 unregistered viewers at any time for each registered viewer.

That calculation is a little too naive for my taste, assessing sold copies of the game as a direct value for the amount of SP game players. I wouldn't believe that even a game as longtime fascinating as Dom3 manages to get all the people to continue playing it continuously in single player instead of putting it to the shelf where all the other games tend to go after some time, too. It probably takes a special people to not grow bored over winning against the random and simple-minded AI for the nth time. The biggest appeal in starting a new game, to me, would be newly added content, a new nation, or to try out a new strategy in a MP game.

As for not-logged in visitors, it's no secret that a lot of them are probably robots - either spam bots, or indexing bots for search engines. There prolly is a fair share of lurkers as well, but I'd expect that there are people who don't log in unless they want to actually write a reply to some post, too. I know that I browse my favorite forums as an anonymous user without being logged in sometimes multiple times a day, but I only log in write once every week or second week.