CrazyWizard
Oh Wise One
The game defines an active player as a player who logs in once every 30 days or more often.Ideally, yes. It depends on where you are on the board.
I'm on the frontier. A couple of weeks ago, my immediate-southeastern neighbor was a newbie, and then a mine for a few days until a recently reactivated player got moved in.
In the semi-active area to the south, it seems that people who get moved out/eliminated are immediately replaced. Not all of them are very active.
The inactive area to the north gets more mines, but also gets inactive people. Some of the names up there have changed.
My two active neighbors to the immediate north got moved and replaced with mines this morning. Hopefully this means I'll get moved soon.
There is some discrimination for players in chapter 1-2-3 as far as I know (they are dumped in to storage much quicker than 30 days)
So yeah some neighbourhoods have more 50 times per day loggers than others.
But previously you could be surrounded by neighbours and only have 6 active players around you (as defined by the game)
This is already a huge change. and this makes a current neighbourhood with mines better than the old neighbourhood without mines.