I don’t have the actual count but… let’s play with math and guessing…

SL has 1,836,507 accounts. 690,800 accounts was accessed in last 60 days.
That’s 37% of total accounts.
Most accounts online to date was around 16,800 accounts.
That’s 0.9% of total accounts.
But thoses on other side of the world, sleeping at different hours, most online accounts are 8,000.
That’s 0.4% of total accounts.

those are fact, now let’s play guessing.
Say most people are on SL half of the day. 16.8k count for online has been for a while through the whole day from morning to night. Double that up, that is about 33,600 people, add same result for those who lives on the other side of the world, which mostly around 8k. Double that and it’s 16k adding 33.6k is..
49,600 people. Now how will I find a guess count of alts? let’s see… there’s 49.6k real people and 690,800 account in last 60 days. Linden Labs has a data on count for the last 7, 14, and 30 days.
(http://secondlife.com/whatis/economy_stats.php)

I noticed the count is doubling up as more days go by. So, half of those number is alts and half of newbies trying out SL and then gave up on it.
So cut 690.8k people in half and you get 345,400 ALTs people.
So that bring it to 18.8% of Total accounts!
That’s about 7 or 6 accounts for each real people?

I know most people that I met have about 2 or 4 accounts and that result I did was kinda close. That’s just me guessing on possibility. You can try finding out on your own but…

Forget it, SLLA.

Let us assume unpaid users are causing the majority of the problem, though. LL isn’t doing a very good job of encouraging these people to sign up. They lowered the stipend without lowering the subscription prices. They even had the audacity to raise land fees. These actions haven’t done anything good for the paid membership roll.

My bad… it’s people and SL are going strong, Linden Labs isn’t.

SL was reasonable before I left, its still pretty much the same now that I am back. The only real difference I’ve seen is a change in which sims are shafted with lag.

Overall, ignoring the new features or screw ups.. its still pretty much the same. For the sake of people who seem to complain one way or another, who’s going to be the first to document things?

Who has the guts to sit down and get actual figures from debug mode today and compare them with figures a month down the line.. and come out with something thats *not* biased?

I need sleep and… please try not be a noob, ok guys? Jesus.

Whereas what you have to show for yourself is like 2 1/2 people whining and leaving — but not leaving lol.

More than that, I find the above discussions, especially by Doc and Prokofy Neva incredibly interesting, with comparisons between upper classes dumping on lower classes while seeking to make them scapegoats for existing problems. In 10+ years of using the internet, I have found nothing that matches this level of social complexity that so mirrors real life.

This noob is going to ride this ship as long as she can, while doing as much good in-world as possible. Thank you all for providing insights into this new world I have stumbled upon.