Well, by my memory there were many servers, and some of the PVE servers had lower pops than the Zek's, at least for a period of time. I don't think it's quite the same. There was clearly more of an appetite for a pvp ruleset. I think the nature of the average player is much more griefy on a free emu server than it was when the game was new and people had to pay monthly for access. The stakes were higher.
I've seen green approach 1k players as recently as this year during bonus xp, and there were still only like 20 tops logged into red, which is only 2% not 10.
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