I think a change will become especially important in Velious. Raiding isn't that great in Kunark, and you can be really well geared without ever doing anything more demanding than PoH/PoF trash clears for your planar set, but Velious is the expansion that raiders really care for because the raid content there is the best ever in the history of the game. It's also the point where Everquest changes so that you can't be well-geared without raiding. If, by then, the server still has a population that could fill 5+ raid guilds, I think that'll be the time to look into ways of accomodating more people. Velious is pretty underwhelming if you can't raid, but Kunark is fine because Sebilis, Charasis, Chardok and epics are really the high points of that expansion. Who will be satisfied with Velks and Siren's Grotto? Velious is the raid expansion, and excluding all but the top two guilds then would be a mistake.
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