Finally!
Jensel conceived of a prank weeks and weeks ago - to burst into the Shelter and claim there had been reports of toxins in the water. She enlisted me. I said we had to tell Travis, so she did. Enjah was going to be in on it too. The time arrived but there was a mix-up - the time I'd been told was EDT not SL time, so Enj and I were all dressed up with noplace to go. The following week I had RL visitors and couldn't make it. Finally last night Jensel and I executed the hazmat prank. She made me be in charge as she said she looks more like a minion. Sheesh. Anyway, I made a notecard to copy/paste from, with things like, "Don't panic." and "We are trained professionals." It was quite fun even though way out of my normal doings.

I was at the Kill Club and got Enjah to come and fight me. She got Selador to come and fight, too. A couple of people showed up, one a new person on Linux, who is very interesting and used to work in robotics. I liked him a great deal - and later gave him some landmarks to help him get started seeing good things. The world is so huge that without landmarks, and with no knowledge of the map or where to go, new people wander aimlessly and may never see anything.

I spent some time with Tedd, who has totally revamped his game. Amazing! I spent some time slashing beetles and various things, and a new player came while I was there. He started slashing beetles, too. There are a great many new people because the barriers to entry have come down. Many, as Philip said, are non-American.

I was in Ambat, which lately has had traffic in the range of about 2-5000. That's a lot. People were dropping in the entire time I was there. I think the Infohubs are getting increased traffic (maybe) since anyone can set their home there (home=a place to be logged into). At the Nova Albion Infohub, Caroline said someone held a freebies and cheap guns selling event, which resulted in (I think) people running around the city shooting (which isn't allowed in non-damage areas). I would guess that the event holder just needs to be tipped off to take his events elsewhere. Does Jessie have a place to hold events? There must be a damage-enabled area somewhere that can be used for this - not a sandbox, as selling is prohibited in sandboxes.