The Crookback area constantly displays a player count of at least 5 even during server downtime. I may be mis-reading this, but if there's any fix at all (it's likely a bug due to the NPCs) it's to reprogram the display to (x - 5) so that the 5 AFK NPCs are excluded from the player count which gives a more accurate display of player distribution for those looking for Roleplay would benefit the community in my opinion. There may be other regions with the same problem but to lesser degrees. I recommend counting the number of NPCs and subtracting by that amount.