From my own experience, a static zone (or in my case, LOTS of them) is going to eat up more RAM than dynamic zones, absolutely. The tradeoff is that static zones maintain their spawn timers where dynamic zones, after a certain duration of being empty, are unloaded, and reloaded as new people zone in. On my server (running on a VM, admittedly), I've got 10gb of ram allocated directly to it (host machine has 32gb), so it isn't really a burden to me, but for lower-resource servers it is a valid concern.
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