You have a good point there, Funkz, but who'd volunteer to just float about tallying, i bet there could be a really simple FLhook thingie that could be used to make a line graph of the player distribution accurately.
although blowing up NY would solve the immediate problem, the mod would probably die/ everyone will move to Penn.
Getting rid of the good scrap-mining rates near pitts and putting it in the Tralfalgar base in New London/the nearby shipyard, which is pretty newb friendly anyway. and put a newb-friendly moneymaking opportunity somewhere in every house other than liberty would broaden Newb horizons. so it's not either Pittsburgh or some faraway Tau system with tough NPC's where you could mine for a good profit.