The population hovered at 190 when Nizzar got booted. It stayed there.
When Nirgon, Colgate, Swish and I started really pushing Red on the Blue server forums, the population burgeoned. We didn't troll their threads. We actually elucidated reasons for why Red is better and how now (after Nizzar's ban) was the best time to roll there. I have countless PM's from doing that, from people who are now in our guild.
It's not like all these blue players came over without persuasion. We have been actively pressing an exodus from blue for 3 months.
They had a thread over there that went to like 70 pages in one day about raid rotations and the inequality of the current system. I'm all over that thread, arguing point by point why abandoning Blue for Red is a better idea than arguing over nonsense that is solved by PvP on this server.
We went hard as fuck over there, to the point that Derubael made his own thread and locked all the other ones. We have a fuck load of new players due to our efforts, and in a large part because Derubael put his stamp on it after he saw we weren't stopping.
There's a tiny percent of you who even saw this happening.
Couple that with the fact that we're far more transparent and fair than any raiding guild before or since, and you've got a winning strategy for population gain.
To say we had nothing to do with the current server population is, quite frankly, bullshit.
Literally 0 people from Azrael even thought (nor probably even wanted) to go over there and argue the merits of Red.
i.e. eat shit, you have no clue why the population is what it us.
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