I counted up the number of people in the Races page and added them together. The total number of players represented on the Races page is 3,588 (by my last count, which was a few minutes ago).

According to that little ticker up there ^^, there are 4,073 active members. Somewhere there are 485 people not accounted for on the Races page.

Why?

Dead people have no character, and thus no race. Plus noobs who have no character.

Also that is for active..which means have logged in the last 7 days. Same thing happens to factions, thats why they stress activiness.

Either that or there are "hidden" races who nobody is playing as...

Somebody has way too much time on their hands... lol

I wonder if the races page shows how many people are alive, meaning at least 485 characters are dead?

“After death you must wait 3 weeks before being able to rejoin as a playing character

- 3.2/ What happens to you?
 ”

I assume "Active Member" is someone who logs in at least once a week. Considering the respawn timer after death is 3 weeks, that means that within the past 3 weeks 485 died (or are waiting).

Seems like a pretty high fatality rate for a game without combat.

And if they are waiting for approval, why are they on the "active members" tally? They aren't members until after approval.

They can be approved, and not created, so they wouldn't have a race.

How would one go about being a "custom race"?

If you have to ask, you don't.

Okay, I also noticed that Ezekiel's race was "Yoda"... I'm guessing that this is another custom race?

Zeke is a Noghri

Master Ezekiel
Race: Noghri

I believe you're thinking of Relm. And yes.