"AH is dead. Everytime I log on, there's no action at all"
"AH is still great! Everytime I log on, there's always fight somewhere I can join"
Two rather typical comments these days in various discussions here on the BBS. Both may or may not be corrected, totally exaggerated or with some truth in them.
But what they do have in common (despite the conflicting claims) is that both are originating from a very subjective point of view. AH is like "I" experience it. Always full, always 'empty', it often depends on which timezone you are flying in.
To illustrate this, I made a graph showing LW population of last Wednesday. Time is given in Central European Summer Time (my timezone). I marked 8 p.m. local for various places in the world to show the (assumed) 'prime time'
So keep in mind, your personal experience might be very different from other just by numbers caused by timezone differences alone. And, of course, even more by personal expectations and gameplay preferences