I see there is an active player chart, but what are the actual number of players online at any given time?

That is a well kept secret! It's up the developers if they ever want to share those numbers with us again.

Finding the number isn't very hard. First you count the pixels, then divide by tau to adjust for the isobaric grist extrusion, and then perform a Ganbourier Transform to enter the G-domain. This will permit you to easily identify and remove the swashplate factor by multiplying it by the reciprocal of the square of the time-domain result. Lastly, you take the pentagonal root, do a Reverse Ganbourier Transform to return to the time domain, and scale the result by whatever the exponent on your G term had been.

Damn he just asked a simple question Rin...

And rin gave him a simple answer.

Haha it was a comprehensive answer.

Well said

The problem with Rin's solution is that it does not account for bots or a player logging in on multiple names in the time frame charted nor does it account the same players playing on multiple accounts.

Hmm, a drunk/sober/stoned player chart might be more fun ......

Im not sure thats the impression Inc wans to give out about this game when the chart reads "95% altered status".

The easier simple answer is to fly around to each sector and look around and count each player.

Sort of like an abandoned ghost town where you wander around looking and wondering if anyone might be here. If you find someone then you can count them and if you don't then you know your completely alone.