I honestly feel sorry for you all playing with such low population.
But i can't help but think back of that thread where so many OCE people wanted their servers to be closed from foreigners because otherwise they'd be too crowded and all their houses would be stolen and economy ruined. While sadly it went exactly as I expected, which is too few people to do stuff nd a need of more blood, wherever they're from.

As for the cross-dc arguement (dear me, what was that), it's obvious that ping is horrible. From EU I get about 30 on EU, 150 or something on NA, 200+ in JP and 300+ in OCE. So the difference is obviously huge. Thre's a reason why OCE players always played on NA and JP and rarely ever on EU.
But I think the thign that made sense about the EU+OCE suggestion is how small both DCs are compared to the other two, where together they'd make a baby NA or something. While allowing OCE to travel to huge DCs while EU gets locked in its own misery seems sad and unfair.
Of course they're never implementing cross-dc travel so it's all a pretty pointless thought excercise.

I do wonder though, when they decided there were the numbers to sustan OCE DCs, if they were excpectign waaaay more people to migrate there, while instead most of them chose to stay in JP and NA with their friends.