Here's my thoughts.
As someone who started playing Asylum in late 2013/early 2014, this is what I believe is the problem.
When Sheriff Rick, Daryl Dixon, Predator and myself were on server five, we'd take our four man squad to Arms cartel and fight the bigger gangs.
We owned their asses.
You know why? We didn't need to have twenty guys with M14 EBRs and two grenades a piece.
We used skill to get shit done, not overwhelming the enemy with fifty guys like most gangs now.
It was so much fun back then because it everyone fought for fun, not to have a constant monetary monopoly on the entire island.
Fighting for fun and fighting for money are very different things. See, back in those days, we would fight a group one day and then kill WITH them the next.
Everyone was in it for fun, to have a good time. Not money.
Of course the money was a nice bonus, but still.
Gangs, in my opinion, is the problem with this server.
That's my thoughts. Fuck the rest of you.