Wtf is going on... the mini server idea was for servers that are dying out to be merged after without people having to change their names. This would solve dying out servers from being well empty. What most and other private servers did was have separate shards in the same zone without having separate shards for the same portion. you could be standing beside someone but you wouldn't see them cuz u would both be on the edge of each shard. Anyone that played a PS should know about the disappearing nodes for mining and herbing. That's how they were able to have so many people in one area. For the more recent lauches of servers like elysium they had to open up a new server (zeth kur) because people were hitching and it was impossible to do anything even with their dynamic spawn rates. Sharding at launch would be the best especially if they upped the max people per shard and made it so you wouldn't randomly get moved from one shard to the other.