I don't know about Venus but almost all the channels on mercury are 75-80%+ full all the time.
This wouldn't be a bad thing except for all the other changes done this last patch.
PF got nerfed, meaning mobs do joke damage to players, meaning a 150 character with under 600 defense can grind at cornus with no trouble, mobing 5-10 mobs without any issue at all. Add this to the fact that the exp with these mobs was also nerfed but still the best those levels could get. So you get ALL the players 140-160 at cornus, sure you can party and get less exp but there's still only so many mobs PLUS the cornus defense was lowered so they die faster.
Then onto pi, the best area to grind is usually crowded with 171+ players because it is seriously the only place to get exp in the game at that level anymore. The mobs die very fast and having more than a few players in the area is a horrible waste. Lets just add new content and events go give more motivation to grind and have no place for the players to actually play, lets waste premium etc for nothing.
And sadly, the biggest issue I have is how COMPLETELY HORRIBLE the lag is anymore with so many people on the channels/servers. It's hard enough surviving running around pi as a squishy character but when I freeze going around 50% of the corners it's a joke. And no, it's not my computer I can run pretty much any other modern game at maxed settings with no issues but I get horrible lag loading anything in cabal.
TL: DR = Nerfed exp + Crowded + Lag = we need more channels
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