First off: Hi! Nice to see you back. You're right, density isn't any better.
Second: avoid FEI. It's horrible.
Third: AT really hasn't changed much. Federation politics are possibly even worse than before. CE, Tara, and Strombran are still locked in an unbreakable federation. Everyone else is allied or federated to one or more of them, making warfare just stupid. I'm pretty much sick of it.
Not sure how ec is going to turn out. Some of the rulers are dedicated to keeping small scale, goal oriented warfare going. It remains to be seen if we can make it stick. I hear Vix Tiramora is pretty active. We try to be in Eponllyn, but not a lot of rp. There was a really good to series in Oligarch about the wedding and the poisoning of Ecthelion.
The south island is pretty active. Sandalak was when my character there died, and I guess it still is. Ikalak is, too. Not much intrigue, but some good fighting action.
