I'm currently farming in mid 20s areas, and while they obviously aren't crowded like 50+ areas, you see new people from time to time, which is great sign You may think "well, few new folks running around don't mean much", but you need to take into account that server is 9 months old. Generally, you could say that seeing 2 or 3 people in low level location on a 9 months old hardcore server is better sign of server health than 200 people in starting village on a week old midrate I don't want to sound too fanboy-ish, but it's definitely worth starting here if you ask me (also the fact that the server not only survived, but remained active with many events for 9 months so far with no P2W donations would be a good sign for me as well)