New Frontiers Travel and Choke points

You will see many excuses like Its was Wow or it was ToA. But the Fact is Population dropped off miserably with NF because of the Travel Issues. Steps were taken to Correct this Problem of a bleeding population with the Release of Catacombs several months early. When this failed there was a Massive server clustering that also failed to fix the bleeding of players! The Population Upswing and steady hold on players began with Darkness Rising. Included in DR were mounts, slower then a Bard,Minstrel or Skald by far but a general movement increase for any class without a movement spells. This allowed players to get to the battles in NF were as previously you were not gonna make it and you just waited at the keep for the next round. Population returned to an upswing with Darkness Rising and the Addition of Proper Lvl 51 Epics. These two additions made NF playable and it is still used on live. Without these QoL changes, Islands and Bridges Become choke points for stealth and Spammer classes. Notoriously Animists and Theurgists with a couple of Field of Thorn Players can kill entire Raids/Zergs. Landings with No stealth prevention in place are a choke point of death for any visi trying to reach a destination. Getting realm speed at towers and keeps is nice until some random mobs takes a swing at you and your now a lumbering target screaming poke me in the Face. Im not saying put in all the epic mounts and other high speed mounts ether. But in a wide open NF for a no speed class the basic advanced mount would be the Ideal way to include all players. Hence why they were enacted to begin with. Many are going to Dump on NF! I for one like the towers and Keep takes. I just Loathe the Travel! You cant always find a Bard or Mini or Skald to taxi around with you but you can always pull out a mount and pony up. Is it ideal travel speed? No. Will you outrun any class with a speed Spell? No. Do you gain Any advantage over other Players? No. All it gives you is the ability not to be stuck at what ever portal keep waiting for a group to pick you up! The more you Patch and Tweak the more it seems like you are shooting for 1.85 without ToA or Tics, Vamps, Valks, Bans,Warlocks, or Maulers....If this is your goal Please Consider why QoL changes were made to the game in a very short period of time compared to others. The time between NF and Catacombs(5 months) Shortest ever and Still the game almost died. Then Clustering Servers was tried and Failed. Then the release of the Classic rule set Server just 7 months after Catacombs failed. Released in the hopes of drawing back those who left! It worked for a short time but quickly became apparent it would not be enough. Hence the Release of Epic Revisions just 2 months after Classic and 3 months after Release of Classic just 1 month after the Epic Revisions they Dropped "Darkness Rising". This Did work quite well and they would not drop another Major content for more then a year!(12 Months) Because DR works with NF. I know you said no speed boosts for this server but i think you should reconsider The Basic Mounts because of functionality if you intend to stay with NF. Thanks for reading. All Information can be Verified with ease on the DAOC.com/content/Patch-Notes web site.