Hows active PC gold/plat pugs?

You're on PC? You can have manifest maxed in circa half an hour to hour, depending on how willing you are to risk Carpal tunnel syndrome. Not unlike some of us console scrubs, who have been scrubbing for almost 1000 hours and still haven't managed, close as we may be...

As for number of players, can't say personally, but from what I hear, there's still decent number of people playing. More so lately, since Andromeda seems to have tanked.

On the plus side, pugging gold would surely up your chances of reveling in the gracious presence of a BSN'r.

I've been playing nothing but Gold/Platinum on PC for the past month approximately, and I've been playing heavily, I'd say 1-2 minutes for a full Gold lobby or you'll immediately join a match in progress as the 3rd or 4th member.

On Xbox360 I maxed rare unlocks in about 400hours, I'm on track to complete the same in close to half the time on PC, this is simply from moving to Gold quickly and not promoting characters, also contributing to clearing waves quickly due to game knowledge and team work etc. and quality of PUG's on PC are actually very good lately, there are still some really low effort run to other side of map and bleed out players of course

By the time you max Rare quality unlocks you should have a pretty good selection of Ultra-Rare weapons to play with. Either that or my RNG is better than the average!

When I was leveling up characters and getting some early manifest progress I found that Silver was just as active as Gold.

Lol. I was pugging yestersay when host put a kick vote on someone probably because of his/her very low CP and ranking. I tried to tell him 'Don't kick him out. At this level he has Wraith X. He is a wizard. He will carry you.".

On topic, finally it seems PC player base is dwindling too. But still enough players that you don't have to solo.