After playing the server avrg 8 hours a day for a month I can say that population only decreased. Since start economy never existed. Any potential competition disappeared with the only competitive guild. Since 01.01.21 (start) there was only one custom event. There are few decent custom systems that don't offer much and few boring repeatable systems that offer a lot (Turn-in for exp/THQ). There are weekly updates so things might change. At least GM's are easily available - playing on their alts.

The gm team seems to really care and have put forth meaningful effort towards custom features and it shows from the moment you log in and work your way towards their custom hub town. The population is still fairly small which is why the scores are lower in some areas. This server is definitely unlike any of those darkRO clones you see pop up weekly on RMS and Facebook and is certainly far more similar to a low/mid-rate with the work required to reach end-game both in leveling and gearing.