Since I first asked the question "How many people use C:SI?" on this blog last September, the Combat: Samurai Island community has grown by more than 5000 new active users, and more than 1800 new regions where duels have been fought. Not all of those regions are active, of course, like Meiji with over 188000 duels at the time of this writing or Samurai Edo at over 100000, but there seem to be quite a few very active regions that I’ve never even heard of.
As an example, looking at the "Most Active Sims This Week" portion of the C:SI Weekly Stats page today, I see that I’ve spent a decent amount of time in only two of the listed regions and have never even heard of two of them. The rest I’ve either been to only a few times at most (I just started visiting Bloodlines, for instance, and it’s in the top 10 this week) or simply have yet to get off my duff and visit them :
In a way, this is pretty gratifying. Part of the satisfaction of being a C:SI developer is seeing how many people use your weapons, and how frequently. It’s pretty neat to think that there’s just way too many places out there where the weapons are being used to realistically expect to visit even most of them, let alone all.
On the other hand, I’m pretty sure I’m missing out on some neat stuff 
So what I’d like to do, and I don’t know how many people are going to take me up on this but I hope that at least a few people are interested, is offer everyone the chance to send me an article about their favorite region for C:SI combat, which I will publish (with full attribution of course) here or on the Combat: Samurai Island website (or both if you prefer).
You don’t have to be a great writer (just look at me, for example, just pitiful hah) or particularly articulate, just enthusiastic enough to write more than a paragraph or two :) I’d really love to hear about your favorite region and why you think it’s so great. Screenshots are encouraged, of course, and a teleport location would be appreciated.
If you are interested, feel free to drop me (RobbyRacoon Olmstead) a notecard in-world with your article, or email me at this domain (Robby at DaikonForge).
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Here’s an idea related to this: Make another most active sims list, but base it on growth rather than raw numbers. I think that data might capture things such as sims which are gaining popularity, but haven’t reached the level required to make it to the normal active sims list.
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Yeah, that’s actually a fantastic idea!!! I will definitely do that after I get what I already have working moved over to the C:SI site.
Something that’d be interesting is to find out is which sims in the list are dojos. So like GillCar Valley is Tendai-shu and Neko Wafers territory (well, Neko Wafers is moving out in a few days) so that explains all the duels there.
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Other than having people register the sims, I can’t think of any easy way to do that. Well… Perhaps if the land was group-owned by the clan, though I suspect that’s rare at best.
But I agree, it would be great to be able to see dojo activity. Or even to have a map of available dojo. Or a registry.
[wanders off in thought]
Ha…I was just thinking going down the list, *poofing* in, and saying hi. xD Actually, wait, maybe the registry will be easier than we thought cuz we can charge dojos for the amount of square meters they set aside for C:SI usage in addition to the per person fee! *runs and hides*
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Whatcha mean “we” :p
O.O *cry* But…but…you can pay me my cut in betas and cookies!
Aimee Congrejo’s latest blog post is : Leaving Yakuza and going clanless for a while