[Wiltan]

It's the middle of the workday on a Tuesday and there are 262 people on Blue and 472 people on Green right now.

Maybe 200 "active players" would be bad, but I posit that the number of active players is much higher than that, considering that even during what should be a fairly low-population time of day/week, there are more on than what you're using as a low-water mark.

At any rate, merging servers won't make things any less top-heavy.

The thing that would bring in (or back) leveling players would be new content, which isn't going to happen for a number of reasons, not the least being a lack of dev availability. Beyond that, all I see are knee-jerk "doing something is better than doing nothing" suggestions. More quakes, sure, but that's for the raid scene, and doesn't do anything to draw in more lowbies. A change in meta, same thing. Nothing wrong with doing those things, but if it's a dead server because it's top-heavy, feeding the top won't make it less dead.

There are plenty of folks who still love P99 and are enjoying things the way they are. There are players in my guild and in our larger alliance dinging 60 for the first time ever; getting their first epic ever; seeing raid zones for the first time ever. Would it be nice to just show up at Highkeep and get added to a goblin group waitlist like olden times? I suppose. But as I said earlier, one can make friends or join a guild and bring their own group for that.