I actually think if there is a merge, the honest people will only have 2 options left:
1 quit
2 start to bot
Ok, maybe become the one constantly killed and farmed as well.
Why? We are at a point when you barely get 5 miles radius just for yourself to farm in most states. Often you only have 2-3 miles in many areas. Its really hard for honest people to still play as it is, another merge pushing us into the same sized map with 2 more crowded servers would just really either kill honest people or make them bot or become farms. I am not sure what the right solution is, considering most players on all servers now use programs and most of them are the major source of money... I do think the bots do create worse lag, but a merge is not a solution. And last action against botters did not catch all of them.