Here is my opinion of the UN trade base and how it affected the UN server once it was set up. This is strictly from a PVP perspective. After Irish took over the UN server and BEFORE the trade base was set up, the UN server was in my opinion the most fun server I had ever played on since the release in 2013. My squad looks for PVP in the north/northwest of the map and we would run into other players/squads all over the place up north. We had some very intense PVP every night.
AFTER the trade base was set up at the castle, the server became very boring in my opinion. There weren't any players anywhere except at the castle. We would roam around looking for players and they were nowhere to be found because they were all at the castle. We literally didn't see anyone for like a week, whereas before we would run into people everywhere we went up north every night for 6 hours straight. If we wanted PVP, we had to go to the castle to find it. It was very boring and not fun at all.
Just to run/defend the trade camp, there would be like 20 UN players there which is a 3rd of the server. Then you have other players there to trade. And even more players there to kill/harass people at the castle. The entire server was literally at the castle, going to the castle, or leaving the castle. After a few days of this, my squad just stopped playing on the server. There was no point. There was no more organic PVP because everyone was at the castle.
I just wanted to post this to maybe give the UN guys some info as to why the server died. I would urge you guys to revert back to the squad style PVP server it once was w/o the trade castle. It went from the best server to the worst in my eyes. I talked to some people from other squads and they felt the same way and left for the same reason. Obviously some people left just because of .62 being out for so long. But I would still be playing on the server today if the server was still up and the trade base was gone. Please think about getting rid of the base for .63.
I'm just trying to provide some feedback to bring back my favorite server to what it once was. I respect Irish and love what he originally did to the server. As I said earlier, he turned it into the best server before the trade base was set up.