When someone comes along and looks at the server list to see what server they may want to play on one of the first things they look at is server population. Saying that server population doesn't indicate a healthy server is talking from inside the box. I don't mean that as an insult. Appearances are everything at first glance and appearance of a high population says to people, 'hey, if a lot of people like it, it must be good'. An anemic population says to people it must not be very well liked. There is also the fear factor of how often servers disappear. You don't usually see a server with high population, boxing or not just up and disappear. And about those boxers and how they inflate server population, do you think they would stick around if the server was unhealthy?
All that being said though I don't think that every server should automatically accept multi-boxing. Supply and demand are strong indicators of what is in demand. By a large margin, most of the long term servers are multi-box servers. Most single box servers just fail to attract the attention needed to retain long term membership. Again it falls back to numbers. I go to log in and I see there is only 15 people on this server, but this other server has 300!
I would absolutely love to see a server like Stormhaven pull the cap off the box limit. I remember when that server started getting into the 100's. Unless my memory is just extremely bad it was largely do to lag that Trev started limiting boxing. I got frustrated with waiting on other people to log in when I was playing and finally just moved on to another server where I didn't have to wait. Trying to find a group was a large part of the reason I left live.
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