Do you guys have a long term plan to allow the community to exist on one megashard or was it always the plan to cap server pops at around 2000 people and have multiple servers? As I had been hoping, given the massive map size that the PvP community would be allowed to concentrate on one server.
Would it be possible to establish independent instances per open sea regional zone(i.e. Lower Antilles, Upper Antilles, New Spain, etc.) therefore replicating the jumpgate mechanic on the OS? It would be inconvenient for players to have to zone into new regions, but the inconvenience would be manageable if the loading times were as efficient as it currently is to zone into a battle or port instance.
Please keep up the good work!