Had 36ppl online playing on the Azure Sky server the other day. Pretty consistent population and seams to just keep growing as time goes on. Welcome to join us.
The forums are pretty dead but that will pick up when Dark Star is done. A lot of people could be waiting for that, or they got bored/left. The 7/11 update took the p.servers for a twist and anyone who is fully updated can't play on the old DLX, pXi, Neverwinter, Spira, 6.5 or the r1430 servers else they just crash when they attack something & the chat is all screwed up.
Only places for the people properly updated to the new 7/11 updates is Azure Sky & Dark Star. Course Dark Star won't be ready till round spring/summer so we have AS up to keep people occupied.