Kronomo: Story of a dead server.
To give you some background. Population has dropped from around 1k weekend prime time early on in the game, to around 400, with off hours dropping from 200 to 50 ppl. OPR never pops on this server.
Covenant got wiped pretty early and has always had way fewer players, so never been in contention really other than well timed efforts of the entire faction to maybe take 1 territory and then lose it a week later. But realistically most of the time it has been Marauders Vs Syndicate for control of the map, with green having a slight advantage (6v5 territories).
The largest green company (TCK) on my server basically took over most of the map, so a bunch of the defeated purple guilds transferred off. Which left green with 0 competition so then most of them transferred off also, including TCK. A few of their members who had transferred on to the server (and thus couldn't transfer off) along with some other greens corps formed a new company and have been slowly taking over territory (Ebonscale, Brightwood, Cutlass). Purple still holds Weaver's, Reekwater, and First light. a 13 man company in Covenant holds Restless Shore since there was 0 defenders when the war went down.
However, population has declined so much with transfers and people quitting, that Monarch's, Windsward, and Everfall; you know, the main territories for trade/money making? are still held by TCK, even though TCK does not exist on the server anymore. The "All Companies" page shows that only 8 territories are claimed, while the Map still shows them held by TCK.
Since the current green companies can't take the territory from their own faction, they are trying to sell these territories to Covenant, they won't let purple take them. What's left of green basically crushes any attempts by purple to push these territories in to contention, and covenant doesn't have the man power to actually do it/refuses to pay for the territories. So 10 days after the controlling company left, the 3 main territories are still held by a company that doesn't exist.
no one can start any town projects, and no one defends against invasions so every invasion these towns just slowly downgrade. All rent and taxes paid in these towns just vanishes from the server since it doesn't go to any company. Everfall is still the main trade hub with more TP items than the rest of the towns combined, and most players own houses in At least EF if not WW as well.
What's even more hilarious is that right before they left, they set the taxes on everything in these towns to max. What few players remain have slowly been moving assets to Brightwood to make that the "new" hub for trade, but most people either just quit, or just farm mats while waiting for the inevitable server merges instead.
