Logged in my alt in Jita and thought I must be seeing something wrong. Around 6500 players in Jita Local.
Then I thought the number may be presented wrongly to me, so I copy+pasted the user list and yeah, it’s really around 6500 players in there. Only the usual 1200-ish docked in 4-4 though.
It’s likely a bug where the chat server picks up new players, but somehow doesn’t remove the old ones. If there were 6500 players in Jita then we’d have TiDi in there and a ton of complaints already. I’m not even sure if Jita can hold this many players.
Yeah, it looks like this is what’s happening. I haven’t seen it in other systems though. Ran a few locator agents on people who are in local but not docked in 4-4 and turns out they’re still in 4-4, logged off for all I know. Starting conversation with them works though - no message of them not being online.