It's open recruitment atm but not a lot going on. Much of the drama has died down so perhaps there's not so much need for a "balance" as there may have been a month or two ago.
Test seems to be slooooowly but surely acquiring new players, though it's also lost a few over the last couple of months, hopefully not for good. The original idea of Balance was to provide a central identifying place - but as I said, lately it's been pretty amicable in general and I'm not sure there's as much need for it as there was. Test *does* seem to be acquiring an identity, helped out - paradoxically - by the visiting folks copied over from live servers. It's still tough for the grouping-minded to get groups, but that's going to remain a problem until Test has enough folks in varying level ranges, and that's not the case yet. (Not to mention that not everyone is a grouper, but I'm not getting into that argument since I'm not one myself - live and let live, imo.)
Heals/Ial is AWOL atm for reasons he can't divulge without having to kill us all, but he'd better come back at some point because I know where he lives (even if it's just the general area), and I don't mean in-game.
If you want an invite with any of your chars, Pol, just holler on test chan - fair few people have invite ability.