And I thought it was sneakers that killed the online ...
Wasn't it rerolls?.. :7
But to be serious, no amout of a great analysis and finger pointing will fix the problems server currenty facing, what's done is done. What server needs is help, not forum pvp. Unfortunately the latter is more popular.
Have population caps for the different factions, so if people want to play, they have to join another faction and not just pile on top the already winning swarm faction.
Don't make faction switching so easy - if you change faction, you must start from scratch - it is NOT hard to farm pixels.
Make pvp quick and readily available - instant action and no 30 minute wait times.
Except for making a nuisance for players to play with friends and comrades this solves any of above mentioned problems how?
Nobody is stopping them from having alts, nobody is stopping them from teaming up factions in fights.
How would you propose to fix that?
Make items binded to a specific character like in WoW and make autoaim at everyone who's not in their faction?
Or even better, make ZC like arenas, avaliable to enter only if you have N amount of players?
How bout just
let make people play only in turn based perhaps?
I understand that you want to help, but cmon, you can do better than this.