the population gap's a lot smaller when you consider that usually at least 1/3 the blue pop is AFK at any given time, whether it be in EC tunnel or waiting for a camp to spawn. when you look at red population, those are all players at their keyboard actually playing the game. i mean yeah the population gap is definitely pretty big -- the AFK population on blue alone is probably the entire pop of red, but it's not quite as crazy as you'd think when you consider that.
red off-peak population is abyssmal though. during hours where US people are awake the server feels very much alive, but if you're euro/aus you aren't going to have a good time unless your goal is to farm endgame content uncontested. if anything it's a huge advantage for those guys, but i'm sure it's super frustrating when they try to level alts.
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