Why does the Empire outnumber the Republic?

Well as we saw with the Illum fiasco,i cannot prove but i suspect that if sides were some how reversed in some odd way that there would of been far fewer people exploiting it and i bet the majority of people here would agree if they were honest.

That in all its colors says alot about the current playerbase of the Imperial side,not to mention i have seen the Imperials use exploits many times and have yet to see anyone on my team use one.

...so people who decided to roll pub characters are "better people"?

Christ, the things you people come up with.

I would say on average far more mature yes.

I think Pink Floyd sums it up in the song Have a Cigar-We call it riding the gravy train.

Seen em twice,Roger Watters twice and Gilmour once.

(Now im showing my age)

For me, as dumb as it sounds, I rolled Republic because I don't like doing evil or cruel things. Even in video games.

And you refer to them as "pubes" ...

Point Republic. In the debate over "maturity".

I guess you have to come up with offensive, unsubstantiated claims to make yourself feel better.

Most of my other MMO "friends" went for the Imp side. Answers why they went were all the same - it's much more cool just. It's first factor. The second is that most of friends' friends went for Imps only they know what reason for. The third part are truly 'dark' characters and even in real life they prefer doing bad things. And the last - kids just want to be with larger crowd and "nuke reps!!11!!".

Most republicans are adult people interested in pve or those who prefer peace, flowers and bright sunshine to red rat eyes and ugly deeds.

As for me, yeah i prefer light to darkness but the main reason why i'm for Republic is that i knew that it would be a really hard challenge in PVP. I gathered my small guild and made a premade of my friends. We learned each others style and play quite successfully i can say. 20-30% of losses mostly because of the rest 4 poorly geared noobs. I'm BM now and can say it wasn't extremely difficult to get it.

As for Ilum - it's just a huge fail for now until they give a buff to a weaker side and some extra fps that's it. But still we gather about 15 men and try to act unexpectedly attacking small groups of 5-10-15 imps here and there. We don't spend hours for dailies i can admit. Sometimes it's even funny. My friend from a very big imp guild is begging me to bring a group of reps for they could do a daily lol I understand her bad mood. Reps are usually hiding at the base.

I suppose some being tired from chat idiocy and easy pvp mode imps will reroll soon but the common balance will be awful till the end of the game. If Bio desn't change something, the end will come sooner it's expected.

Agree. But please, stop feeding the unintentional troll. He/she is most likely a younger kid, maybe at most 21. Your rational responses are obviously over his/her head and therfor upsetting his/her simple mind...