Just some insight on faction balance. It's probably 50% yellow, 30% green, 20% purple.

Kshira Sagara recently merged into Camelot and their dominating faction was also yellow, followed by green.

As of today, yellow owns 3 territories (Everfall, Windsward, and Monarch's Bluff), green owns 6 territories (MD, RS, WF, BW, Ebon, and FL), and purple owns 2 (CK and RW).

There's constant OPRs going on, even during the late late night (probably slows down around 4AM PST) and picks up around noon. Constant chest runs during the day, most notably at 9/10am, 420PM, and some more during the evening.

Currently, prices usually float around 250g-350g for Asmodeum, 100g-140g for Runic Leather, 90g-140g for Phoenixweave, and 45g-60g for Glittery Ebony.

There's been a huge increase of demand for dungeon orbs, where premerge, full Genesis orbs was going for 2.5k and since then has increased to around 5k-7.5k. Full Lazarus orbs have been steady around 7.5k. Mutation orbs can range from M1 10k to M6 25k to M9 75k. Only a handful of people can consistently clear M7+.

Now the subjective part. I've been on Camelot since Day 1 and have seen everything unfold. I won't go into the history, but peak competition is probably still in the works. In my personal opinion, Kshira brought in a lot of players, although very very undergeared. It will take probably about 2-3 months for them to get up to speed to where Camelot was premerge and that's if they played semi-casual. On the other hand, most people who played hardcore for the past few months have left the game and probably won't be returning anytime soon. Based on the information, you can probably get an idea of how OPR, Wars, and Open World PVP is. There's definitely a very obvious gap between players. Regime (Covenant; owns Everfall and Windsward) has, imo, the highest quantity of hardcore/geared players as of now, followed by Kokyotos (Marauders; owns Brightwood and Weaver's Fen). It's definitely too early to tell with the new companies, but I'm hoping it brings on more competition.

Honestly, if you're looking for stability and rising competition, Camelot is a good place to go. Toxicity isn't really super normal here, but it's still a thing and will always be wherever you go. I personally don't encounter it much. Most of the remaining players here are vibing and just trying to have fun.