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So in a way is it sort of like the guild ?

On the whole family/character control front, yeah.

I'm interested too. I had an account in alpha 1, but I didn't play much and only sent in one or two bug reports, so I was understandably left out of his list of active testers

Account shows disabled now. Did alpha 1 end until alpha 2 starts or does he disable accounts that haven't logged in in a month or so?

From what it seems if you post at all on the forum you are in the second alpha, and invites haven't been sent out so there is no way as of yet to know exactly who is in or how many secondary invites will be available.

Alpha 1 ended sometime ago and account access was disabled shortly afterwards.

I'm just waiting until Tuesday and checking the forums there off and on until then.

Quote from: Graknorke on March 17, 2013, 06:38:53 pm

It just bumps up the claimed numbers on anything, so there's only a couple thousand actual sims being simulated and the "phantom" sims just appear and disappear at places to make the numbers bigger.

But from a programming perspective that is pretty much what you should be doing.
Nobody cares about the lives of all 150,000 sims. They might get maybe six or seven they really care about, if they are that kind of player. Sims that just exist as population statistics is ideal.
Why do we want all those sims existing as fleshed out entities? Does anybody actually care?

It's not that I want to know everything about my population (not like you can since they disappear as a unique entity once they stop being an agent and enter any building) it's that when I have 90,000 people only 10,542 work, and I have 24K jobs that need to be filled.

Also you can open the pop panel and the see that the green bar (labeled resident population) represents the true number and not the fabricated pop number.  I first noticed it when my example city above had 11K people commuting in and the orange bar (labeled visitor population) was larger than the green one.

I could kind of get behind it, if the numbers weren't so extremely false.  (like if I had 30K workers from a 90K pop)

Actually you don't need border posts, just sign posts.  If the sign posts are close enough to each town and they are done then the are a legitimate target for road construction.  I don't have the time or inclination to test what that range is though.  Also haven't tested to see if the same person or something has to own the same regions.

If you are near me we should team up and become the lords of the steppe.

All the fat plains men think about is them selves, us scrublanders work together.

I am Shomber Flunkendudle of Mogaroux.  I am just east of your guy's cluster.

I think I will be lord of the scrublands.

Can't type any characters in the connect screen, so it comes out as "127001" instead of "127.0.0.1"

Either I am doing it wrong or something is broke.