If no one is doing fates and I mean no one. Most jobs can solo fates in under 4 mins with a bird. The boss one's are even easier. I get it is not the 60 seconds or less fate train. But it is still a minuscule amount of time and if someone sees a fate going down they usually pop over and finish it with you making them faster. One of the keys is to do fates in areas where daily best tribe quests are since they generally have the odd person roaming for extra help.


It would take a complete rework of servers. But congregating players onto one server and then instancing the zones out to make the real world fuller would probably keep old zones more active. We don't need X amount of Northern Thanalans across all worlds. We need maybe one or two. They would probably have to discuss S ranks and reevaluate how they spawn. A korean MMO that flopped had an interesting idea about those types of mobs where they were their own instance not really hindering game play of the people in the zone.