There was a thread awhile ago that had people talking about the populations of servers back in the actual classic days (1999-2001'ish). A lot of them seemed to give numbers between 1800-2500, most of which claimed it was ridiculous finding stuff to kill because of how congested zones were (granted, level distribution was different back then).
That said, maybe we're at a pretty comfortable spot right now. Just enough for some competition here and there, but not to the point where things were at pre-Velious (less zones, less quests, less gear, a lot less raid targets, quite a few guilds clawing and scratching at each other for a single dragon kill).
I see about 1100-1200 people on at peaks hours. 1,200 actual humans. No bots. No boxes (supposedly). I think that's an awesome number.
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