Re: Alpha vs Beta balancing?
Over crowding on alpha would push people to beta. The trouble with that is it requires time and for population to increase, and to keep population we need something more intersting... that is the population won't get to that level because people will get bored/frustrated and leave first.
I still can't help getting the feeling that more people don't go to beta because there's just too many players over there having 'fun' with PVP and not enough willing to put in the effort to build something serious. Foom would have done it, but they made have moved a little too soon, while NeX can probably do it a little sooner just because of their larger membership. In any case, it's more likely to the be newer players, and the 'vets will end up playing catch-up.