Some people hate to lose and must be on the winning team , saw that in warhammer , where order was losing and guilds on multiple servers said they were gona quit , sooo many dest rerolled and soon order was winning , then all new people that joined the game saw who was winning and all rolled order thus making the problem worse .
There were a couple of servers where dest was on top but 80 % of them were order dominated after jan 2009 . Fast forward to 20012 most servers were closed due to people leaving the game because of balance and population imbalance , back in 2008, 09 and 10 you had to rank up your city to gt quests etc and it took on average 3 days to rank up from 1 to 5 however soon as dest city hit 4 order sacked it back down to a 1 .
Issue would have corrected itself had people rerolled or played old dest toon but most didn`t ,
I stayed dest all thru 2008, 2009, 2010 and in 2011 started playing my old order toons i shelfed in 2008 to play dest since they were losing , in 2011 started playing order to help them since they were now losing on every server ..
Playing the under dog is always the most fun , theres never a shortage of people to fight, and it`s great win you beat a superior force due to better tactics etc , sadly most can`t see that and flock to the winning team and wonder why there`s no one to fight after the other team takes their ball and goes home .