Monsters are there to force players to move closer. If you want to cling on to the land then well it will just be a big limiting factor for your expansion. If you want to expand and border another human realm, you might want to give up on the realm located in some remote corner of your continent and join a realm located closer to other human realms to form a denser realm. There are way too many realms with too few players. Either you join other realms to make it denser or stay spread and fight monsters endlessly.
The monsters ironically haven't helped at all with forcing players closer to each other, but rather seen the map get further away from each other. For example, I remember when realms like Luria and D'Hara had borders with other realms. Because of the monster invasions, there are holes being created between realms taking up regions that once bordered another player realm. I remember when Astrum, Sol, HD, Luria and Swordfell were all interconnected. Now, those connections are separated. Yes, Luria has no borders with any one realm....
