1 some people play regardless of the population 2 some others do not everybody has different standards for a play some has 1, 5, 10, 20, or 30 but noone's standard is 0 entering a zone where you think 18 people plays but you came up with 0 that kills population that what users came up with a lot of time periods for most of the zones most zones has some dedicated spec players like mg in mg or hs you came up with 0 population time to time it will actually help growing because most people will play a game over 4v4 but they cannot always try the zone by entering leaving a zone every 10 minutes 3 read my other solution you may send a command to the bot to pm you when the zone population gets higher than 10 or 20 or 30 4 another solution is server side too each zone should hold a population graph itself like the ssstats in trenchwars not everyone knows or uses ssstats web site and it is not all practical so while you send a certain command like population to the bot it should send you hourly based population graph so you can figure out which hours are crowded also this feature may be added into the client as a population stats graph in a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly base