That's a very true issue right there.
This game was designed back when people could run two characters on a continent, and that loss has greatly reduced the numbers of characters available.
Especially when combined with the reduction in players over the years.
Even sinking islands has only masked the dropping population.
That doesn't mean I think the right answer to the issue is what is happening now. There have been some interesting ideas that would be cool. What is happening now is not one of them. Or so it appears.
Now Dwilight had an interesting idea where the West Continent was overrrun. I didn't live through it, and have heard horror stories of what it was like, especially since the devs didn't say what they were doing until after the fact, but I think it was a very good idea. Pick an area and say "here there be monsters. don't go there." It forced the human realms to contract into a tighter area to survive.
Perhaps something like that is called for on BT.
