Suggestions for helping low-pop servers

[Sundance]

It never really was THIS bad before the 4 servers. When the 3rd server was introduced, the playerbase got spread out. People say it was the introduction of cogmap, but from personal observation it looked like this boosted our population, just in the wrong damn way.

It's all got to do with the mentality. I'd write a post but embolism summed it up nicely last thread

Having four servers actually gives us no choice of server assuming you want to play a proper round.

There's three broad types of SS13 players: those who don't mind chaotic rounds, those who prefer less chaos but actually want to play a round, and those who just want to do their own thing. With four servers, the players who prefer less chaos find themselves too spread out amongst the three lower-pop servers to actually play a proper round, and since they still want to play a round they go to the packed server; leaving the lower-pop servers even emptier. The result is instead of having two choices like we used to have, we now only have one.

tl;dr: Herd mentality.
Have two servers, one american and one european. Leave it up for 2 weeks and if shit doesn't start to patter out, then I will record myself eating half a dozen of eggs.