Thank you for posting robin!
We're still starting, it's hard to start a private Aion server nowadays, almost every player want to start on a high populated server, and that's not the reality of new servers.
Top 200 and Hopzone is full of high quality servers that got population as low as 20 players.
I don't know why the players stick with "donation ruled" servers, and don't even try out new servers.
Our population is still small, we are trying to advertise on some forums around. Some players came, registered, and left because we got few members yet, and they don't know how much we've grown in just 1 week. And they also don't know how much we coded by now.
But I got patience to wait, and I'll see our community very very big someday.