Edit: now up to 79.
edited by an_ocelot on 12/4/2013

The folks who have gone over Influence 77 will just have to snub more people when we introduce other things you can do with your Acquaintance slots. :-)


Of the 2000-odd users who have at least one acquaintance, here's the breakdown of acquaintance numbers after a few days

71+	...	1.4%
61-70	...	0.3%
51-60	...	0.5%
41-50	...	1.0%
31-40	...	1.4%
21-30	...	1.4%
11-20	...	4.2%
3-10	...	22.7%
2	...	15.5%
1	...	51.4%

NB that 2000-odd is quite a small minority of our active userbase (somewhere around 10-15%, though it depends on how you define 'active'. So the vast majority of our users have no acquaintances at all! but of course the mechanic has been out less than a week, and it'll filter out to less frequent players (we do have users who log in a few times a month).


Of course even a blurry picture like this is immensely useful and interesting to us when planning social narrative. And it mimics the patterns that show up all the time on the web: little local friendship networks, with very socially active individuals linking those mini-networks together.


A couple of takeaways I'd point out to you guys:


(i) If you're even reading these boards, let alone posting, always remember, you're probably in the minority of very engaged players;


(ii) if you're reading or lurking on these boards and thinking OMG how did these people get to 70??? then don't worry. Very few people have more than a handful of Acquaintances.