Instance Management / Ghost Towns

Often I find myself in town instances with no players in them other than myself.
I find myself Ctrl+clicking repeatedly the entrance of a town area before entering, in order to try and find a well-populated town instance. I know that this isn't a population issue - I can almost always find at least one town instance with a large number of players in it.

I think this issue significantly detracts from the experience for the player - I often feel like the game is empty and that no one is playing, but this is not the case. I value the ability to manually create empty town instances (sometimes you just want to play alone; trading, etc) but by default I don't think players should be placed in empty towns.

There are some other issues with instance management that I've had, that may be worth mentioning:
- Players of the same group ending up in different town instances without intending to; it's really not ideal. Alternatively I tend to end up in a town instance with JUST my party members - again giving that ghost town feeling.
- Players from a previous group connecting to your instance (when you have specifically left the group, and continued into a new map area on your own). I think manually using "Make New" instance after leaving a group might fix this, but I'm not certain. Definitely doesn't seem to happen by default.

difficult situation from the games point of view.
for example placing all players of a party in an already populated town instance would require for the game to reserve slots for them in this instance so they all fit into this instance which would be ineffective from a ressource management point of view as town instances consume alot of precious server memory.

so it is not avoidable that the game places players of a party into different town instances. happens alot for me too but mostly these instances aren't emptyat all. only after i idle for a longer time i find myself alone in the town. the server seems to forget about reusing old instances