Originally Posted by
Midnight Man
Now, please be gentle as I've only picked up GW1 in the last month or so - I didn't think that the varying districts in outposts and towns were actually separate servers/realms, as one would understand them in a WoW/Rift/et al sense of the word - I had the impression the varying districs were invoked when the original district was getting overcrowded, and represented a separate "instance" of that town or outpost to prevent overcrowding, but was actually on the same server/realm.
That is to say, I didn't think there were separate server/realms in GW1 - but now maybe I'm not so sure of what I thought to be true?