I doubt this will affect the population on Jericho by much, my fear is that this will be a severely negative change for Citadel, which of course, contains most of the paying playerbase.
You're saying it's necessary so that everyone that wants to can play, but what percentage of bronze/silver players will no longer want to play? You must be counting on some never returning, banking on the golds sticking around instead. How long will they stay, after their 'farm' dries up?
At least, it would be nice to hear that the situation/numbers will be monitored closely, and that this will be reverted when it becomes clear that it needs to.
Unless... this is our last year, and since golds pay more, we're being fed before final harvest?
somewhat more aggressively then I intended,
a jericho gold that doesn't play much, but wants to keep playing into the future.