Well,
@Sidon , welcome to the forums!
You can take Angel20's sarcasm literally if you want, or you can come see for yourself. There are more than 50 players.. FAR MORE... in game on a regular basis. It seem's that there tend to be more on in the evenings after school/work ends (3pm school/5pm work) on east coast and gradually adds more players when that time comes for each time zone. Weekends are of course busier. And we're looking forward to all those in college and school to be home for the summer break and be more active in the game.
You can check out the news posts on the website for updates/events/etc:
https://tlopo.com/news/
There is also the news section here on the forums where you can find the same news posts from the TLOPO site posted, as well as announcements from the developers and release notes for each new update:
https://piratesforums.co/forums/tlopo-news-and-announcements.102/
Check out the guild section here on the forums for any guilds you might be interested in joining, though not all the guilds in game are listed here:
https://piratesforums.co/forums/tlopo-guilds.115/
There are also discords, but they are located in one unofficial chat directory:
https://piratesforums.co/threads/unofficial-tlopo-chat-directory.18405/
As you can see, we've been quite busy around here on the forums and in TLOPO! Look forward to seeing you in game!!