BeteNoire

Re: the ASE Server wiping, if you're not willing to keep them up, then perhaps consider a compromise whereby you eliminate most of them, and give players plenty of chance to migrate to servers that you will be/can keep up for the forseeable. This will let you cut out a majority of the servers and keep some people happy. (Naturally, pillar spam, people who have tonnes of bases etc may make this non-ideal). Obviously I see people would prefer to keep them up, but it's just a thought.