Growing?  Maybe, but if it's growing, it's growing after having suffered a large loss of players.  I think it's pretty much dead.  I mean, the player counts aren't enough to really support online multiplayer activity.  I had difficulty finding games even last night (Friday).

I hope so.  Maybe lots of players will spontaneously return in a month or two.

There was an influx of new people to the Sins community in general(I.E. these forums) when Trinity came out.  If we all devote to ICO at a certain time and post that time in a thread, and get a Moderator to sticky it in the multiplayer section, then the new players will find it and know when to play, and the older players who pop in here once in a while might join in as well.  That is the stimulus.  Trinity.  We just have to baby it.

-Twilight Storm

Sorry bout that.  I had some RL stuff and I hadn't expected it to last that long.  So you won that game after I had to log?  We were well on our way when I left but pulling it through after that is commendable.  Grats quar.

[_]-Greyfox

Maybe what Sins needs is a sale--a big sale.  Perhaps a sale of the original Sins for $10 and a sale of Trinity for $25.  Perhaps there is a lot of price elasticity and they would have many sales.  Also, I wonder if it could be bundled with video cards.

I think I have seen a light at the end of this tunnel. I had a great game with Quar and Grey yesterday!!! (My internet died because of storms, BUT I had a blast.)

I knew who I was playing against and with and it rocked.

One thought I had just before the game that i think will help bring this game back to life. I shared this with those in that room and I plan to post on it in about 10 minutes.

Check it out.

Diplomacy was just a bad name.  Poeple just phsycologically hate it for no reason. Thats why player counts dropped.  I think 80% of people said "Diplomacy, thats like government, useless, oh well time for new game" and didnt even give it a chance.  But I think because it is part of TRINITY now, NEw players will play it online. SO hopefully ICO will grow.

Holy cow.  That's almost the record for the most players I've ever seen online, which was about 280 people back in March or April 2008.  At what time and what day did you see this?

I think the Sins for $4 sale helped give the game a small shot in the arm.  I think I saw 110 people on the Sins/Entrenchment server on Friday night.  (We should all leave the new players alone so that they can play together on regular Sins without us pros stomping them so that they'll keep playing.  I know it's hard to resist the temptation, but let's pretend they are underage girls.)

Is that Sins + entrenchment + Diplomacy population? or Sins/entrenchment + diplomacy

Cause sins and entrenchment is still combined like before.

It's possible, there were close to 180 online Monday night (at once) between all three versions (110+) on Vanilla/Entrenchment and 60+ on Diplomacy.