its surprising the number of servers that have a good population these days, although Tarquinas is my favourite server, nostalgia i guess, its not all that well populated, but im keeping my fingers crossed that it will change, i dont know all the high population servers, but the ones i do know of are Bloodfin, Bria, Ahazi, Chilastra, Chimaera, if your not sure which to choose, just create a disposable char to check the servers out that your interested in. Its true though, that you need to have an open mind about the game if your a returning player, the NGE of the past is not the present version, its almost another game again, fortunately, better than the original NGE, and while i won't get into the debate again about previous versions, its definitely worth getting a station pass for, of course, i also play EQ1 from time to time too, it was one of the first games i played and i have a lot of memories from it, even more surprising is that my original guild is still there, Wyrd Angles, or Wangles.... im not even going to think about how many years its been ;D