How many active players are there?

I would also want to know a developers point of view on this: doesn't seem that C&C rivals isn't that popular as expected. Also I would like to know what % of those players from bronze 3 to master 1 actually micro while playing? Some of the players only reach like gold or platinum rank due to the fact they are not micro-ing or scouting. Sometimes I encounter a very easy match where the opponent never got a chance on the nuke, a somewhat troublesome match where the nuke fired once per base and defeat from other players who probably managed to out-speed me. Also there was this match where I disconnected early and the opponent was fooling around and somehow set of the nuke by accident with one of his talons/hind. I also seem to confuse the talon's name due to the fact that it shares its name with another unit in C&C 4, please rename it something that can't be mixed up.