Stop the "Ghost Town" Effect: Why Server Merges are better than AI/KI Bots

The idea of using AI to fill inactive forts is cool, but it's tough to pull off. It puts a huge strain on the servers and could ruin the economy with auto-farming. Plus, winning against a bot just doesn't feel as good as beating a real player.

Many servers feel dead right now, so why not just merge them? Opening new servers all the time is killing the population on the old ones.

Players always follow the same patterns. They swarm the content during events or after work, but once the loot is gone, they’re gone too—back to the menus or offline.