I seriously hope that zos reads all these and sees the logic and revert their inaccurate measure.

Cyrodiil has been a meat grinder for newcomers, PUGs, even for average PvP guilds that do not follow a ball-group style gameplay. The current change in group size pushes new players away, too.

I for one, lead pugs often, or recruit randoms in my group often. And with too small group size like we have here, I have to pick the not only just experienced players but very experienced players in order to be able to do basically simple things. This is really frustrating, because people are left out, and there is now a need for more pug-leaders, which is now more difficult than ever, since people do not want to risk filling their tiny group with random, inexperienced people and fail miserably. But, Cyrodiil needs new people since the old ones constantly keep taking long breaks or quit due to server problems frustrations. And all we have is newbies who need to be taught, and we can't really show them how to achieve things, since we can't successfully siege a keep with a tiny group of inexperienced players. And on the other side are the ball groups who coordinate over voice and they come and wipe those tiny groups of inexperienced people in a blink of an eye.

This group size reduction has to change. I already see population decreasing steadily in general (excluding the MYM event) and it is getting harder to fill the pop cap even tho it seems to have been low-key reduced again lately. We do have some new players, but they end up quitting Cyrodiil as well, because either nobody wants them in their group or the group they are in can't do much with inexperienced players, even if they are accepted to those groups in the first place. You can see LFGs flooding in zone chat, but most of them never get recruited. Hence, they eventually leave, never to return. But, we need more players in Cyrodiil. The whole map is even emptier than before. Seriously, look at the map on a random evening, and you will see little to no action going on most of those times you check. That is because there are not enough players. Low-key reducing pop-cap is not going to solve issues in Cyrodiil. Yes, population still gets capped, but we see very little action. So, where are all those people if we really have hundreds of players? All farming dolmens? I hardly think so. I don't even see most of the regulars often times. So, halving the population cap is not going to solve this. Let us at least have our groups as they were before and play with friends and be able to help newcomers like we could before.

And, no. It really did not improve the performance. Even zos did not explicitly claim so if I am not mistaken. Even if it did to some extent that is mostly unnoticable by us, the cost-benefit is simply not worth it. They should stop playing with fundamental gameplay mechanics without actually getting involved in that gameplay. Please, take a look at Cyrodiil, Zos.