Lot more competition in the private server scene than there was in the 20-teens. P99 has a hard time competing because it maintains, fairly or not, a strong reputation for having a GM staff and ruleset that favors the high-hours players over regular folks.....so a huge portion of those regular folks pick other servers nowadays.
Codebase deterioration doesn't help any. P99 felt less buggy in 2017 than it does today. Stuff that used to work fine but got broke, like Z axis pathing, remains broken years later, giving an impression that the admins don't care anymore. The admins themselves encourage this impression by barely communicating and giving the appearance of having "checked out." Not many players want to start in such conditions.
Blue appears to be in a death-spiral where the in-game economy has fallen below functional critical mass, making it defacto virtually impossible for people to buy/sell goods in any kind of reasonable manner, totally suffocating off a supply of newbies and leaving the server population to wither. Green appears to be a little better in this regard, still with a functional in-game economy, and still attracting some small amount of newbies, not a lot, but some.
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