Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

2500 is alot of people it'll be fine

They also stated at one point that the 2,500 player cap is blizzlike since that was the cap at wows launch for each server do the hardware limitations. Which is also why spawn rates are lower in general, because they were based off that cap. So honestly it only makes since for everyone to have a truly blizzlike feel is to have the cap in place to control the allowed population.

I would be perfectly happy with 2,500 player cap. If it becomes a real big problem then they can raise to 3k. If resources get out of hand then hopefully a pve2 server will come along, I know it's costly in the long run but if players donate say $5 a month then I'm sure it will benefit, but let's be real, the cost is why we got away from blizzard servers right? It's a tricky situation but there's always other pve private communities if it doesn't tickle your fancy.