I think its time for a little update since my last post.

On one server I play one guild still holds the vast majority of the cities even though 10 different cities were bid on tonight. How did they hold them? 8 of the guilds that bid were nothing but alts used to block bids of other guilds. It adds up to approxiamately 250-300 alts just on one server owned by 1 guild alone.

On my other server, 1 player and his army of alts now owns 3 cities. 3 other cities are now held by a guild with about 10-12 active and alot of alts. So now 60% of the cities available are owned by less than 1% of the active server population.

I know this poll is supposed to stay open for a few more days. But I am seeing people say goodbye and exchanging personal info to meet on other games. Regardless of anyones personal opinion of the patch, it is destroying the game population in more ways than one. I personally would suggest reverting back immediately to the old GW setup before you lose everything. Unless your plan is to reduce the active players to fit in about 10-15 servers. In that case, you're doing a wonderful job.