About the so called 85,000 players...
If you actually find real statistics of how many players are active. generally in each World, about 7000 players are actually active .and 5000 are actively fighting.(somewhere) so 2000 per World, for a new part of the game is not bad at all.
If you want to see just how many people are counted who are not active. (I think you need to use PC not mobile but not certain??) go up to the top of Foe screen for your city, the left top is City name,then your numerical position (from #1 player) in entire World.Click on your number (position) the scrll have thousands of pages. click so you go to the very lowest possible player. Note how you will see there are thousands and thousands of beginner player(I think it is 230 points) that means they started the game. You can try to scroll one page at a time to get past where the 230 point players end. I did 500 pages (that is 5000 players worth) in one World, and gave up as the count was still 230 points total per player. So.. just saying if you think there are 85000 players.active on your World? LOL