Is the server overpopulated? Or is it something more?

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I'd be fine with a new blue server. No drop/firiona style is ok. Reset every x months I dunno about but its interesting.

About the min-max zones : I always thought it would be interesting if the game remembered how many mobs you have killed in a particular zone before and reduced your exp gain by a small proportional amount. Eventually it would bottom out at 80% of your normal exp or something like that. So not a huge decrease but enough to encourage you to move along after killing a few hundred merbs. You could make this memory forget after a while, for instance, if you go spend a bunch of time in other zones the original one would be more or less reset for you in terms of exp.