Balmung is full of people, and a lot of chatterboxes. While you will find tons of Roleplayers in the taverns doign their thing (you pretty much gotta change your chat channel to not get bogged down with 3 paragraph long description emotes), you will find a lot of people making random comments and shouting in towns and helping out and other things. I don't normally stick to the general chat, but it can be fun at times. Lot of activity, enough for new accounts to have trouble getting made in the server. We have some big FCs, but those are just the end game only types. A lot of medium and smaller anybody activity types are around.