Population balancing idea

[Glamurio]

Clearly on a round restart we should spin a wheel to determine which server you play on for this round...

I know you said this as a joke, but unironically a Team Fortress-esque "team auto balance" that redirects you to a server gently after every round would be a good solution. People can still switch afterwards, but if servers auto-balance to the average of both, it'd work.

Unfortunately, this is only feasible if we constantly hover like a spare server, and the round times would need to be synchronized.

I think only a literal population cap will do anything at this point tbh. Even 60 would throw 20 over to the other server,  there are 80 on one server as I speak.

I really agree with this, still would love to see pop caps tried someday

I think pop caps will be the bane of this game, because you will eventually run into the situation where 10 people want to play and can't because "the servers are full", and that can kill off interest fast.