Based on estimations by Daniel Markstedt (below) thousands of people (at least) play Freeciv. I (Timothy J. Crowell) interviewed Daniel Markstedt (a.k.a. Hima), a Freeciv project administrator about the project by email: Timothy: I am wanting to do a report on Freeciv in Teklogs. Timothy: How many developers are currently working on the project? Daniel: We are four active developers, together with a number of lurking ex-devs, occational hackers, artists and opinion machines. =) Timothy: How many users do you think play Freeciv? Timothy: How is the project expected to grow?