Any event brings people out to play. I think SA will be a boon for SP numbers...at least until they figure out of its a good addition or a bad one hehe
I would caution you to reconsider how you're taking this for granted. There is something very huge here that needs to be noted and focused upon. How many efforts have people put forth in the name of boosting our population?
Looking at this critically, figuring out what it is that caused it and then as a community unified... pushing for more is what I'd suggest.
This is summer time folks. We have years and years of experience with Sieges population going DOWN in the summer months, but this is an opposite trend? I know... thank the lucky stars, but be sure you recognize why... it's important. Very, very, very important.
It may be that "an event" drug people out from the trenches... but what's needed to keep them here?
I sincerely believe that the ToT event is prelude to what I've been saying this shard needs for more than 2 years now. If you give PvMers reason to go out and PvM, you give PKs reason to go out and PK, you give crafters reason to continue to craft supplies for both and don't forget the thieves and notos these activities attract.
Our PvMers have been bored to tears for years. There's really
nothing worth doing and keeping the only things "worth" doing as "events" that come around at random periods every so often... is not the solution to this problem.
*shrugs*
, why cant I? 
