Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9587217-20130807134424/@comment-4576875-20130807153716

January SaltandPepper was 16 months ol at the time of the merge, not as big a gap as you suggest but I agree, a big enough gap to make a difference. The problem with the merges was all about active population. Older sectors were less active, so combining 5 old sectors would have a much lower population than combining 5 new sectors. So Kabam mixed and matched to gain a balance. I'm not convinced either that putting very high level players with lower level players has been a good thing.