Elim, lets take this into numbers you will understand easily and that should leave very little room for trolls
Take A.
1.) never played AA? then is nothing even possibly comparable to WoW for example, so drop that idea right now
2.) So is dead? nope but you won't see many people at low level places but end game part have no difficulty in finding groups but it won't be maxed out either.
Take B.
1.) Fuck yeah, I played official after 3.0 update? if you played after 3.0 at official until recently then my men you know the true meaning of a dead wasteland server but be at ease in here is booming in comparison, Luscas, Cr, GR, Fried, etc.etc. have lots of people to participate, this will not be like on official where only your crappy celestial lute song is there to kill luscas with maybe 1 red on a rowboat trying to take your loot.
2.) I quitted official before or at 3.0 update? then yes is low population in comparison to lets say 2.5 or 2.9 hanure or kyrios servers but still have enough population to find PVP relatively often and do all your fun events with no problem.
BIG DISCLAIMER: most people in this server would qualify as SA/NA, hence if you time difference is way too big don't expect to find lot of people online because they are sleeping or working, <-- this may sound obvious but most people whining about dead server and being retarded about it are actually from someplace in the SEA / Africa regions with up to 12h time diffs with most of the population, so yeah Sherlock at those timezones is pretty dead DUH!!!