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I came from a small server (300 population peak around 3 years ago).

It felt like a ghost town. I mean you could go through zones and not see one person.
Every linkshell collapsed because it...

No they don't, they go there because it has a larger population, with the logic that more people = more stuff to do.
Not to pay a merc and then sit in town again, with no player interaction lol.... ...

Me: "Play the game, form a group and do content, it's actually quite fun" - Silly apparently.

You: make everything sellable, nobody has to do anything whatsoever other than own copious amounts...

So just make absolutely everything sellable from NPC's, right? Because whats the difference? If people like buying weapons/gear and not fighting, make it more user friendly, right?

And mercs just keep selling that content. Reducing the chances of people getting together and doing it (because they already bought the stuff from a merc).

Whatever your thoughts as well as...

If as you say, that content is all dead, your attitude is to just merc the 'current and only remaining viable content' because better gear exists?

Right, we will go on the notion that content is...

No... Im saying that under the current system, people can get gear by joining the party and lotting on equipment that had a requirement for merits, without even using any merits.

As an example:...

Maybe on Asura. I never heard of it on Fenrir, it was only when I joined Asura that I saw it.

They can't just join a fight if they don't have merits to do so..

If new players give up...

You think new people are going to stick around when only around 5% of yell is actually people DOING content?
How long are they going to stick around knowing that the only apparent route these days...

Because it is breaking game balance. I left my character logged in for 15 hours yesterday, just in town, in yell. 95% if the yells were mercs and a handful were people getting people together for...

I've noticed a lot of references relating to why this or that hasn't been changed due to game balance.

However, at this stage (on Asura at least) - Game balance has well and truly left the...

Yeh. that is what I thought too.