This gives an idea of how mental the Starmade server was. The attached graph is all logins to the server. Keep in mind some logins will be from crashes and reconnects - but it's still pretty epic. This also highlights the importance of ingame admins/moderators - beginning of December I stopped admining/playing. Also a factor is that I stopped paying for our server to be sponsored (displayed at the top in the sponsored servers list). I think while this definitely would have had an impact - I think it is secondary to the admin scenario. We had so many players at that point - our server would have displayed high up in the list (if not at the top) of populated servers.
This graph removes duplicate logins - and displays the number of individual accounts that logged. ie: these are all different logins - no relogs.
