Looks like a lot of players that would play if there was more to do in the game at any given time. Should the next question be, what would bring you back to playing regularly?
How can anyone who leads this place see stuff like this and do/say nothing over and over. How can anyone still cling to the belief its better as it is? Just logging is noble but not really the answer, and everyone who posted here that doesn't play all basically admitted they unofficially boycott but linger out of HOPE a change will actually come to this place one day. There seems to be a lot of people that would like to return if there was something more to do, and if there was something ensuring a bit more fair treatment from faction heads, devs, etc, and their behind the scenes influence of events.
So the debate switches to, ok what do we do to freshen things up? Make better use out of the place? Yet if you're still avoiding supporting an activity system like a Faction Challenge System for in-game locations, you're pretending there is no elephant in the room. For those of you who actually want to save the server and get people playing again, and have a cycle where people are logging in eagerly to join a battle, instead of being unable to get past their character selection screen, it would be a good time to set aside the personal bias and embrace what is logical. The answer has been right in front of us the whole time, and has only been avoided to artificially keep things upside down here. The current system keeps those who don't deserve it on top for no effort, and vice versa. Yet many are surprised it died here? Playing the game should be what gets stuff changed here, not just being a dev. Devs should be working on stuff for that battle system! And playing to exert change.
I think its obvious what to do, its just creepy at this point that nothing has been done and some people still won't budge. If the leadership won't get moving on such changes, please hand it off to those that will!