I’ve been visiting official servers for past 2 weeks and they indeed are empty.
On PvP maximum 8 online, just on several on them.
All the rest, PvE, PvE-C, empty, and these empty bases everywhere like humongous headstones, standing there just to be refreshed every 14 days.
It’s a sad view for a newbie, because it shows the game is dead, and even if there is some life on the server, the lack of balance in the game which allowed huge bases to be built and gigantic resources to be gathered, it all places newbie on a lost position as one can’t compensate years of gathering resources.
So in my opinion, the decay timer should be even less than 7 days.
Either you play or you don’t play, make up your mind.
And on PvP servers further changes to make it easier to take down huge bases.
This community needs a reset, a wipe, and be recreated as more active and dynamic. Also making it easier to get rid of huge builds is going to help with server performance. And also this is why I am pro-return of the actions counter which unleashes the purge.
It’s boring and not engaging at all for a new player to visit several servers and see them filled with sky high bases, yet no living soul around.
Reduce the amount of official servers, reduce decay timers, bring back the purge, make raiding big bases easier.
And this way create living community and servers full of actually active players.