in fact i just did 2 cross server trades for people from roanoke getting started on jamestown.
now that i dropped 9 of my vendor stands jamestown also has a better economy with lots of dumpy newbie **** being stocked, there is typically 5 - 10 people standing around in town most times of the day bloviating (we still have barrel thieves!) and most importantly i killed off all of the raider groups and zergs (goonsquad, vigilances raider group, great axton, russian group "a", niceguys raider group, and shadowclan among others) that would of been harmful to the server early on in it's history so there are no big zergs of legacy players trying to "control" the server and annoy everyone meaning folks can play how they want and have their own localized conflicts without a group of 600 stat behemoths becoming involved and ruining it.
since i account for the lions share of "legacy" anything on JT (which is rightly so since the entire server got their purity seeds from the ones that i ground up to begin with when a few got stolen by the now dead axton zerg) and you really can not get more neutral on server politics than myself it creates an environment where everyone can get a good amount of power/influence but nobody can really get "to much".
at least not with the current factions and game mechanics, once loftar makes toadstools give 900 black bile per or something though who the ***** knows what will happen

i have sold 73 backpacks in the last 8 days, i seriously doubt that many have been sold on roanoke in the last 2 months.