I'm also from Balmung - I run a very active FC - Laevis Amici - even at off hours (like early AM NA) there are always 3-4 people around. During peak hours we usually have 20+ people on peaking at around 40+ on our busiest raid nights when all 4 current raid groups overlap (Shameless plug - we are looking at possibly starting a 5th group later this month). Now mind you - between FC chat, TS, and/or various Linkshells - everyone is usually talking but not necessarily on the channel/medium your on with them

I've found that when a lot of people are on TS - FC and Linkshell chat has a tendency to get quiet - even though these are active people - and vise-versa when people are not on TS the FC/Linkshell chatter picks up.

Though our FC is progression focused we have a number of people who are really into RP - and have a number of former members who left on good terms (and retain contact with us) to join RP FC's