Prepared to answer the call? (Long)

[Alhanelem]

If I have upset you by low balling it, then I apologize.

I'm not "upset" or offended or anything that you made any suggestion about the size of the userbase at all. I'm not sure what you're getting your pants in a bunch for. I merely asked a legitimate question: "Is it really as bad as this guy is saying it is?" Basically, looking for people to corroborate what you're saying. It's not an attack on you, I'm not offended, you've taken my post to mean something other than what it is intended to.

(As an aside: For Recruits, they can be in more than one GC, so the same person could turn up more than once in different searches- Thre's a whole mess of factors that make this difficult to estimate, so as you pointed out, only SE knows for sure.)

[Biggs]

I'm not "upset" or offended or anything that you made any suggestion about the size of the userbase at all. I'm not sure what you're getting your pants in a bunch for. I merely asked a legitimate question: "Is it really as bad as this guy is saying it is?" Basically, looking for people to corroborate what you're saying. It's not an attack on you, I'm not offended, you've taken my post to mean something other than what it is intended to.

(As an aside: For Recruits, they can be in more than one GC, so the same person could turn up more than once in different searches- Thre's a whole mess of factors that make this difficult to estimate, so as you pointed out, only SE knows for sure.)

No one character can be enrolled in more than one Grand Company at time. You can do quests for all three when you are starting out, but not after a certain point. And there is no way (as of yet) to switch companies once you have formally enlisted. So when you search for all the people in my server that are part of Ul'dahs GC, you ussually get about 130-195. I then start over and search for all the ones in LL's GC, and so on. But your right, once any of those numbers crack the 200 mark, you would have to search by level, and thats just to much work for this galka. I miss how could just see the current active world pop in the world search like they had in xi. Maybe when they redo the server client they will tweek this.