I think the cap has been low for some considerable time and so was demand. Now demand has gone up and the cap is probably still the same. I have no real evidence for this. I'm just guessing based on how quiet Cyro can be, even when it's ostensibly full. My further guess is that the cap on PC NA was raised some time after they got their new servers and that's when performance over there went back to crap. Again I have no evidence. I could be wrong. I'm just guessing based on what I read about PC NA.

ZOS are IMO still caught between a rock and hard place. If they raise the cap, performance will deteriorate again. If they make more campaigns, then you don't tend to get healthy competition. When there are 3 (or more) main CP campaigns, as there are during Whitestrake's, players tend to segregate so each campaign is dominated by a different faction.

That is going to really suck come Mayhem season.

@ZOS_GinaBruno or @ZOS_Kevin or @ZOS_BrianWheeler An actual answer would be cool for what the current population limit is per faction as it's kind of important to know this. Especially when very large guild/groups run around as one blob and scream abuse at 'zone' players for not picking up the table scraps on the map behind them. If these large multi-group blobs represent a significant percentile of the total player population, then we all sort of need to know the actual numbers so that it can be taken in to consideration for better coordination moving forward lol.