Welcome back to Allods. The P2P server is definitely worth it. There is no item shop and the content is therefore balanced and offer a fair challenge. The population is indeed low so you probably won't see many players as you are leveling up, but once you hit level cap, you can expect to be able to do different content everyday with friends as you join a guild. The league side is currently more populated and stronger in general. The empire side, on the other end, is slowly growing and has the most english speaking players and north american of the server. If you're interested in coming back to the game and want to start an Empire character to help balancing factions out, check out the Omniscient guild. We'd be happy to have you.