I was reading a thread about Oasis Island and someone said that it would die in a few weeks, I guess this could be another "told you so" moment.

I went there this morning to buy some furniture, had a look around and it was empty, absolutley nobody there.  

That's what happens to new towns. They're active for a little while and then they're deserted.  

Graal's always like that though.

I think G2k1 is when that changed, because you had to go to certain areas to trade, make money, etc. On iClassic you have everything the typical player would need around the maintown, so yeah...  

Posted by Crono

Graal's always like that though.

I think G2k1 is when that changed, because you had to go to certain areas to trade, make money, etc. On iClassic you have everything the typical player would need around the maintown, so yeah...

I agree with this point. If the main spar arena was moved to another place around the map, the caste was moved over to a different area and other buildings were scattered out, it'd give the players a reason to traverse the map to different places.  

Whenever a new place is released it usually dies fast. Everyone mostly piles up in Graal City. This is also a VIP only island so I would have expected this to die fast.  

Guild forts and railroads were an attempt to fix this, but it didn't really work outside of the actual guild forts.  

Does it matter though? Active towns are only "active" because people AFK/idle in them. If you take out all the idlers and spammers then Graal City would be pretty deserted too.