I realize this is probably a stupid/useless feature request, and I've missed Christmas by a few weeks, but...

Similiar to the uptime command, I think it would be neat to see a playerbase command. The idea being that it records every unique character logoff and how long they were logged on for.

For instance, typing playerbase in the mud would give a message such as the following:

There were 20332 unique players logged in for a total of 40302003 hours since January 1st, 2005.

To make this command a little more useful, it could further break this down by year, month, or week so players could see how much the playerbase is really fluctuating, for instance:

playerbase
There were 2034 unique players logged on for 50302 minutes since Sunday, January 9th, 2004 0000 hours.
There were 10203 unique players logged on for 97504 minutes last week.
There were 12030 unique players logged on for 94002 minutes two weeks ago.
There have been 30002 unique players logged on for 4030304 minutes this month.
There were 75003 unique players logged on for 4343545 minutes last month.
There have been 4020302 unique players logged on for 93434545 minutes this year.
There was 23435334 unique players logged on for 345354453 minutes last year.


And so on. Obviously I pulled these numbers out of a hat, but I think these numbers would be fun to know to dispute the people that claim that CF is on death's door.