I'm sorry, but apparently the invasions of Beluaterra have taught you all nothing. It DROVE PEOPLE AWAY. We lost players, players we may never get back. Why? Because some people think losing years of work is "fun" while it seems many others do not.
You talk about destroying continents and realms in ways that cannot truly be prevented (much like the Third Invasion). This will not encourage people to join other continents. It will simply make them wonder what is the point when in the end anything they do won't matter. They will quit.
We've seen it before, we'll see it again. With Beluaterra. With the War Islands.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
So just sinking an island would be better? I can respect what you're saying if you're saying that the idea of closing any islands is a bad one, but I for one think that if we decide that we do need to eliminate some islands (or at least shrink them), the Invasion route would be 10x better than if we just pick an island and shut it down, though it sounds like this is off the table unfortunately.
