There is no doubt that server transfer or mergers are desperately needed. But we need more information SOON. For instance; I have a guild and it would be nice to know if our server is going to be the recipient or the mass exodus server - meaning is BW going to try and funnel people to or from our server. It would be real nice to know this before 1.3 so i can get the remaining members of my guild prepped to move if necessary... is this asking too much?

Since we cant play on these dead servers anyway... i have an idea. We all unite and quit the game for 30 days. And then we dont come back until BW merges servers. Its crazy i know... but it just might work... the only this is we have to do it together... I really need BW to merge because i love this game (in concept).....WHO IS COMING WITH ME?!?!?

Yes I see your point. But that's Not quite what I had in mind for a guild server transfer. I meant the guild name and bank tabs transfer with the GM; guild members (i would think) would be more likely to transfer if they had a home waiting for them...But mostly i don't want to have to buy the guild bank tabs again.. they are really $$$$

Server transfers are desperately needed especially on my server, so I for one am really looking forward to 1.3... except that I have a guild with 80 members so what happens if everyone leaves our server (this is very likely due to its poor population)?!?! We have 4 guild bank tabs ($$$$)... not to mention the logistics of getting everyone in the guild to get to the new server. What if server transfers become micro transactions? I'm fairly certain there is a good chance that we are going to lose most of our members. How about guild server transfers - Thoughts?

Stay away from Mask of Nihilus... Im on that server and it is dead.

I am the GM of a republic guild on the server Mask of Nihilus. We have 35 members currently; some of which are alts. Before I continue, a little history about myself and our guild. Like most of you, I come from WoW and have been actively raiding in MMO’s for +/- 5 years, and playing video games.. well, since they were invented. I am a loyal customer to whatever current MMO I am playing and always actively recruit people to the given game. Specifically I have brought most of our current guild members from WoW to SWTOR. Also like a lot of you; we did not choose the Mask of Nihilus server. It was allocated to us by the guild pre-register program. We have struggled since the launch to recruit members mostly due the low population of our server; not to mention the faction imbalances that seem to be on every server from what I read on the forums. Our guilds primary focus is on end game content; specifically raiding / operations. This has been a very stressful and unpleasant process. It is next to impossible to recruit players into the guild, and extremely challenging to pick up random players to fill the empty spots on our operation teams. Most raid nights we will park on the fleet station spamming for more players for hours before we get to start the operations, most times we disband and give up. We have tried everything we can think of to recruit more players to combat this discouraging problem. I even joined a Mask of Nihilus facebook page to recruit. It seem most guilds on our server are suffering from the same fate. Recently I have advertised on the fleet for guild mergers or alliance and have picked up a few standby’s at best. We have lost half our guild to members cancelling SWTOR and returning to WoW due to lack of multiplayer experience. I can’t blame them. We can’t raid, we don’t get to see endgame content, everything is over priced for a dead server with no economy so we cant buy anything – legacy items, forget it. PvP is awful and it’s the same premade imperial teams steamrolling us over and over. The list goes on. What options do we have? Future character transfers… no thank you, I am not convincing all of our guild members to transfer all their character to another server and because I am sure BW will follow the same game model as other MMO and make it a micro-transaction. Start over on another server from scratch? again, NO thank you, I have 6 characters and legacy level 20+ that i dont want to lose. Plus, we would be too far behind to catch up to the endgame content (by the time we re-reach level 50 and gear back up). The only viable option I see is server mergers – and to be honest it may be too late for that. It is sad state of affairs that it has come to this point as this game has soo much potential. So where do we go from here. We have had a guild meeting and collectively have decided to give SWTOR 2 months or until GW2, etc. launches. If the populations have not been addressed we will all take our business to another MMO. That is saddening and disheartening to say but we are not having any fun or enjoyment from this game... that is what we pay for. I dont want to leave, but i am not having any fun.

Exactly! Can you list your server info?

What would you base it on? I am trying to help others avoid getting on to a poorly populated server like ours.

I like many of you are on a dead republic server. I unluckily inherited my server though the preregister guild program. Now I have 6 character and legacy +20 on this server... I would love to re-roll on a populated server but i will not; starting from scratch doesn't interest me at this point in my personal game progression. No, i will keep playing on this dead server until I cant stand it anymore (which will be very soon at the current rate). So what i would like to do is help others avoid this awful game breaking problem; and i think you should too. Reply and list out your dead server giving the following information: Example of my Server; Server: Mask of Nihilus Faction: Republic Peak # of players on Fleet: 25-30 Thanks and good luck everyone.

Republic server, never more than 35-50 players on the fleet. PvP is hopeless and i have 6 toons and legacy level 20+ so its not like im going to re-roll on a different server. Guess i have to quit because BW wont merge servers to save face. Sad.

No answer yet eh... nice.

Mate, i couldn't agree more. I am on a similar dead republic server. it takes me a week to finish dailies... weeklies.. yeah right. I don't think i can hold out for a fix, i don't even feel like logging on these days.

Is BW ever going to address the gross server imbalances? I have a republic guild on a completely dead server. The winning percentage in PvP is 10-15%... on a good day. It take us 4-5 days to complete the dailies and forget about the weekly. We are against the imperials who reversely win +90% of the time... as you can imagine their gear progression rate is substantially fast than the republic which results in roflstomp fests from hell. Most of the good pvper on server dont even queue pvp anymore which just makes things even worse. Top that with; as soon as the imperials start to win...everyone bails... including me when it is 8-3... fat chance getting even 1 medal at that point. I know this might be a shock to some of you but it isnt fun pvping with at 10-15% winning record. Here is the real sad part, i have 2 x 50's and run a guild on this server so even if there was server transfers with are we suppose to do... I didnt even choose this bunk server, it was allocated to me pre-release. And PVE...forget it, there is never more than 35 people on the fleet station to PuG for operations or flashpoints either...i like this game, too bad im stuck on this bloody dead server, i dont even feel like playing anymore - Does this sound familiar to any of you? One last note. Change the daily requirement from "winning 3" to just "playing 5"... then those of us on the dead servers have a chance a completing the bloody daily's.

Further insult.... I just hoped on my lower level 27 to see how the -49 pvp is. We lost and I got zero XP... this makes PvP an even worse form of leveling your character... that HAS to be an oversight?!? I mean even if you fail and die while PvE leveling and questing you still get XP...

I couldnt agree more, i said posted very similar to this - check out my post "PvP is Broken"