How are "active members" defined in the lodestone?

In the lodestone's info for each FC there's a count for "active members." Does anyone know how this is defined? Is it the number of players that have signed on in the past x days?

I didn't see any other place to ask this.

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Originally Posted by goob

In the lodestone's info for each FC there's a count for "active members." Does anyone know how this is defined? Is it the number of players that have signed on in the past x days?

I didn't see any other place to ask this.

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Active is a bad use of the term on the Lodestone.
I believe it's just their total enrollment. It seems to match my FCs count, even though a good many have been idle for almost a year now.

Active members are simply all the members the FC has at the moment - the description is a bit missleading, because acivity isnt being tracked at all. Once someone is a member of an FC, they're counted as an "active member" as far as the lodestone is concerned, even if they dont log in for the next 3 years.

The german lodestone is less missleading here, simply stating "Number of members".

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Originally Posted by JWag12787

Active is a bad use of the term on the Lodestone.
I believe it's just their total enrollment. It seems to match my FCs count, even though a good many have been idle for almost a year now.

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That answers my question. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Vidu

Active members are simply all the members the FC has at the moment - the description is a bit missleading, because acivity isnt being tracked at all. Ones someone is a member of an FC, they're counted as an "active member" as far as the lodestone is concerned, even if they dont log in for the next 3 years.

The german lodestone is less missleading here, simply stating "Number of members".

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Odd. I wonder why the German version has different wording. It indeed does have a different connotation.

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Originally Posted by goob

Odd. I wonder why the German version has different wording. It indeed does have a different connotation.

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Different (localisation teams), as always, would be my guess. I'm not sure if the lodestone works as ingame text, as in: being translated from japanese into other languages, but if thats the case the person translating the english version might have interpreted the original japanese a certain way, while the person translating the german version interpreted in a slightly different way - pretty common when translating stuff, since words can often not be directly translated but need to be interpreted.
(Can be quite funny sometimes to compare an english and a german translation and see how different they can be...)

I remember being new, and wanting to join a big FC. Active Members was incredibly misleading because I joined one with well over 50 people, but only like 3 logged in, ever.

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Originally Posted by Gula

I remember being new, and wanting to join a big FC. Active Members was incredibly misleading because I joined one with well over 50 people, but only like 3 logged in, ever.

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I got the same with many FCs. I feel trapped everytime lol.