CC is declining again!

[iAmCaffeine]

Intriguing. The possibilities are very exciting to say the least. In fact, I have another proposal: Dec-Linin-G. This is a different take on your dec as a slang version of deck. Linin is slang for linen, obviously and the G brings a bit of thug life to our scenario.

Perhaps we need new deck linens with a G-style theme. This would naturally point to weed signs, dollar symbols and suchlike, or perhaps simply the letter G, to include goats, grafitti (links to the former definition), gonorrhea(sp?), gerbils, giraffes and gardens.

Ok, hear me out on this one... "The deck" I think we're solid on that. "Linin"... I think you might have left out another extra "e". LEINEN!! Obviously short for Leinenkugels! Stay with me... Deck-Leinen-G. What do you do on your deck when your enjoying a couple cold ones?? G: Grill out! So!.. Is cc Deck-Leinen-G? I sure hope so!

You're still thinking within the box mate! Get outside and live a little! If you take the letters used to compile declining you can create the anagram nine cling'd. So, bear with me, CC is some kind of triumphant story about how nine people held on for dear life? Maybe in some kind of epic risk game?

Your so right! Risk comes in a box... This is much more than a board game! So, 9 cling'd. Epic. What elce is epic? The Big Bang! How did CC start? With a bang! A BIG one! And so forth the universe expands as does conquer club. Ancient alien theorists believe that the universe may some day implode. Going out on a limb here (thinking outside of the box). Mite conquer club not be declining, but imploding?

Any coincidence that the new owner is called bigWham?! We've cracked the code! Hi5!

[Vace Cooper]

Intriguing. The possibilities are very exciting to say the least. In fact, I have another proposal: Dec-Linin-G. This is a different take on your dec as a slang version of deck. Linin is slang for linen, obviously and the G brings a bit of thug life to our scenario.

Perhaps we need new deck linens with a G-style theme. This would naturally point to weed signs, dollar symbols and suchlike, or perhaps simply the letter G, to include goats, grafitti (links to the former definition), gonorrhea(sp?), gerbils, giraffes and gardens.

Ok, hear me out on this one... "The deck" I think we're solid on that. "Linin"... I think you might have left out another extra "e". LEINEN!! Obviously short for Leinenkugels! Stay with me... Deck-Leinen-G. What do you do on your deck when your enjoying a couple cold ones?? G: Grill out! So!.. Is cc Deck-Leinen-G? I sure hope so!

You're still thinking within the box mate! Get outside and live a little! If you take the letters used to compile declining you can create the anagram nine cling'd. So, bear with me, CC is some kind of triumphant story about how nine people held on for dear life? Maybe in some kind of epic risk game?

Your so right! Risk comes in a box... This is much more than a board game! So, 9 cling'd. Epic. What elce is epic? The Big Bang! How did CC start? With a bang! A BIG one! And so forth the universe expands as does conquer club. Ancient alien theorists believe that the universe may some day implode. Going out on a limb here (thinking outside of the box). Mite conquer club not be declining, but imploding?

Any coincidence that the new owner is called bigWham?! We've cracked the code! Hi5!

HAAA! I'm glad we could finally solve this! Maybe there's another thread that needs our help!

[iAmCaffeine]

Intriguing. The possibilities are very exciting to say the least. In fact, I have another proposal: Dec-Linin-G. This is a different take on your dec as a slang version of deck. Linin is slang for linen, obviously and the G brings a bit of thug life to our scenario.

Perhaps we need new deck linens with a G-style theme. This would naturally point to weed signs, dollar symbols and suchlike, or perhaps simply the letter G, to include goats, grafitti (links to the former definition), gonorrhea(sp?), gerbils, giraffes and gardens.

Ok, hear me out on this one... "The deck" I think we're solid on that. "Linin"... I think you might have left out another extra "e". LEINEN!! Obviously short for Leinenkugels! Stay with me... Deck-Leinen-G. What do you do on your deck when your enjoying a couple cold ones?? G: Grill out! So!.. Is cc Deck-Leinen-G? I sure hope so!

You're still thinking within the box mate! Get outside and live a little! If you take the letters used to compile declining you can create the anagram nine cling'd. So, bear with me, CC is some kind of triumphant story about how nine people held on for dear life? Maybe in some kind of epic risk game?

Your so right! Risk comes in a box... This is much more than a board game! So, 9 cling'd. Epic. What elce is epic? The Big Bang! How did CC start? With a bang! A BIG one! And so forth the universe expands as does conquer club. Ancient alien theorists believe that the universe may some day implode. Going out on a limb here (thinking outside of the box). Mite conquer club not be declining, but imploding?

Any coincidence that the new owner is called bigWham?! We've cracked the code! Hi5!

HAAA! I'm glad we could finally solve this! Maybe there's another thread that needs our help!

I know Gary always needs help.

[Gillipig]

12442, a decline

[iAmCaffeine]

Decline.

[Gillipig]

You'll have to go even further, 12438!

[Gillipig]

Not low enough, 12430.

[BigBallinStalin]

[Gillipig]

12421, I searched for "the end is nigh" on google and this picture popped up. I'm not sure if it's relevant but if google thought it was, it has to be!

Click image to enlarge.

[Dukasaur]

12448, an incline.

[Agent 86]

12448, an incline.

Oh no, not more multies

[Dukasaur]

12440! How come I got here ahead of Qwert?

[Gillipig]

12437

[notyou2]

I found this site in Facebook, they had a little ad that I clicked on. Perhaps they should advertise there again.

[BigBallinStalin]

I found this site in Facebook, they had a little ad that I clicked on. Perhaps they should advertise there again.

What? Why? We'd get more crazy people like you here. Not in my CC!

[notyou2]

I found this site in Facebook, they had a little ad that I clicked on. Perhaps they should advertise there again.

What? Why? We'd get more crazy people like you here. Not in my CC!

Reported for bigotedness.

[Gillipig]

I found this site in Facebook, they had a little ad that I clicked on. Perhaps they should advertise there again.

What? Why? We'd get more crazy people like you here. Not in my CC!

Reported for bigotedness.

Reported for lack of humour.

[Dukasaur]

I found this site in Facebook, they had a little ad that I clicked on. Perhaps they should advertise there again.

What? Why? We'd get more crazy people like you here. Not in my CC!

Reported for bigotedness.

Reported for lack of humour.

Reported for nested quoting.

[BigBallinStalin]

I found this site in Facebook, they had a little ad that I clicked on. Perhaps they should advertise there again.

What? Why? We'd get more crazy people like you here. Not in my CC!

Reported for bigotedness.

Reported for lack of humour.

Reported for nested quoting.

Reported all for cyber bullying.

[Gillipig]

I found this site in Facebook, they had a little ad that I clicked on. Perhaps they should advertise there again.

What? Why? We'd get more crazy people like you here. Not in my CC!

Reported for bigotedness.

Reported for lack of humour.

Reported for nested quoting.

Reported all for cyber bullying.

Reported for oppression of freedom of speech.

[Agent 86]

Current score 12436, my guess probably a couple hundred multies lurking in there. So reporting lag is winning

[Mr Changsha]

It does seem to have a stabilized around 12300-12400.

I do have two questions for you expert 'scoreboard-worriers' though...

1. At what level would you consider the number to be so low that a CC-addict like me should start to worry?
2. At what level would you consider the number to be high enough to pronounce the site healthy?

[Dukasaur]

It does seem to have a stabilized around 12300-12400.

I do have two questions for you expert 'scoreboard-worriers' though...

1. At what level would you consider the number to be so low that a CC-addict like me should start to worry?
2. At what level would you consider the number to be high enough to pronounce the site healthy?

I've answered this question (well, a similar question) in this thread before. Rather than re-type the whole thing, I'll take the liberty of quoting myself.

What's the optimal amount of CC users?

If we had 20 million over night, then you could see the problems with that. If we had 1000, then that would be problematic. So, is there an answer to my question?

When I joined there were about 23000 users, and most mod positions were filled without difficulty. When we dipped below 20K, we started seeing some mod positions being difficult to fill. I would like to see us at a point where not only are mod positions easy to fill, but we actually have a surplus of candidates for them and can pick and choose. I'd say 3 candidates per position would be a good point to be at, so something around 60K users. That's the Team perspective.

When I joined, people were filling 128 player tournaments on a fairly regular basis. At some point, I'm not sure exactly where, that started being difficult. I think we were around 17K or 16K users the first time that I saw an organiser forced to abandon a 128 player tourney because it couldn't fill. That was a relatively new organiser; at that point the more famous names could still fill one. Today, even the better TOs would have difficulty filling a tourney that size without heavy-duty spamming. It's not impossible, but difficult. I'd like to see us get to a point where even a middle-ground (not extremely famous, but not totally unknown) TO could fill a 256-player tourney. So, about double what it was when I joined, plus about 20%. So, about 55K. That's the Tournament perspective.

I'm sure cartographers and others could come up with similar benchmarks. For me, 55 to 60 K would be a good number.

I still stand by that. As far as I can see, we are way, way, way below the optimum point. In order for those things that should be happening to be happening, we need a lot more members. We have been in the danger zone for a long time. Many volunteer positions go unfilled, and others are filled with unqualified people because nobody better is available. Maps sit in the foundry for weeks at a time with no debate. Tournament organisers have to spam aggressively, sometimes even to fill little 32 player tournaments, never mind filling 128 player tourneys.

So at what point should you start to worry? You should never have stopped worrying, because we've never yet hit the point where this community would genuinely thrive.

As for what would be too much? Well, that's hard to say, but something about double the optimum point, about 120K, might start to get to feel more like a city than a village. When we get close to that I'll do a more detailed analysis.

[Agent 86]

12417...it's dropping again.

[Dukasaur]

12417...it's dropping again.

The lag problems have hurt us badly. I hope they're easing off. At least it seems the game lag is fixed, but the forums continue to be bad. Things were improving very nicely for so long, too, and then the troubles came...