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Ok, my server have 5 50 Empire, and less than 30 people on fleet at peak.

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Ok, my server have 5 50 Empire, and less than 30 people on fleet at peak.

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Melkathi
01.23.2012 , 12:11 AM | #21
I'm in favour of server mergers.
Though I would like to keep my server name. I like Space Slug. I don't like having our server population drop to two thirds of what it had been. Merge a light population server with ours, please

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ippollite
01.23.2012 , 12:13 AM | #22
People dont like merging because it says that the game is contracting in numbers. It veryt very likely is. It always will after the first month is up. But the intention is to keep servers going until the word of mouth spreads and the numbers start picking up again (as people either hear about the game or older players come back after a few improvements/changes).

In truth i think people are more aware nowadays that there is a balance to be struck by initial (short term) interest in the game and consistent (long term) interest in it. I think we're all a little less knee jerk on merging, but it still carries that connotation, and certain people will be doing everything to suggest that swtor failed before it even really got out of the door, and server merging will be used as ammunition to make the point.

So its all PR. And it sucks that titles use players as pawns in this battle of attrition, but its just how it goes. Wow had the same low pop servers for almost its entire life span and refused to merge those servers, and i beleieve swtor will be no different. Maybe. Because maybe the time is right for a more grown up discussion on the reality of it all rather than the politiking.

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Angedechu
01.23.2012 , 12:17 AM | #23
What boggles the mind is that my server on WoW, Eredar US, is widely considered 'dead''...and have 10 times the pop of my TOR server.

Seriously, I'm bringing my toon to 50. But I'm not rerolling.

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JJDrakken
01.23.2012 , 12:23 AM | #24
Avoid The Jekk'Jekk Tarr, it's a bad place. -looks around & runs away-


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01.23.2012 , 12:32 AM | #25
Quote: Originally Posted by Angedechu View Post
Any good suggestion for a server on US East that have a healthy republican pop ?
Port Nowhere has one of if not the strongest republic side in the game. We have the World #1 guild and many other guilds. We occasionally even camp the imp base in Ilum with most of the time being raid vs raid. Imps have numbers, but republic has skill.
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Khryn
01.23.2012 , 12:32 AM | #26
Quote: Originally Posted by Angedechu View Post
What boggles the mind is that my server on WoW, Eredar US, is widely considered 'dead''...and have 10 times the pop of my TOR server.

Seriously, I'm bringing my toon to 50. But I'm not rerolling.


People say this. They try comparing the Fleets to Stormwind and such. The difference is that people in WoW can sit in SW, trash talk in Trade Chat, and have the game make them a group and teleport them to a dungeon, and pretty much spoon feed you XP and Gold.

In TOR, people are spread out across the planets. You might say "Well, there are only 10 people on Hoth" but there are 175 on Coruscant right now. If you still have your WoW account, let me know how many people are in Darkshire right now? lol.
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Esaru
01.23.2012 , 12:39 AM | #27
My server isn't like that, but I feel your pain. I'd hate that, especially if I spent countless hours on a character.

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Angedechu
01.23.2012 , 12:44 AM | #28
Quote: Originally Posted by Esaru View Post
My server isn't like that, but I feel your pain. I'd hate that, especially if I spent countless hours on a character.

I whoed the 1-10 pop, the 11-20, pop, and thus forth

The Courageous have, at peaks hours, a whopping 100 players on Imperial side.

My guild on Eredar have 30-40 players at peak hours. And we are the underdog faction.

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Darklordxenu
01.23.2012 , 12:47 AM | #29
Quote: Originally Posted by Scopian View Post
I feel for you, OP. I'm in the same situation and to be honest this is the ONLY reason I am not renewing my sub. My server had a queue each night of the week when the game started. I love my character, I like the gameplay, I'm willing to forgive just about any bug/shortcoming because the game has HUGE potential as long as Bioware keeps it heading in the right direction.

I tried rerolling when my server population really started to die...but I couldn't bring myself to do it. The game loses a lot of its charm when you try to start from scratch and spacebar through everything since you just did the exact same quests in nearly the same exact order the week before.

Here is Swiftsure activity level...here is Harbinger....and here is my server, Krath.


TOR is suffering from the same thing that stopped Rift from being more successful, currently. They opened too many servers because of the popularity of the game at launch, but didn't close them fast enough and people will leave instead of rerolling. They held out on LFG when the vocal minority of the forums was resentful toward the idea and people left.

One of my first posts on this forum was suggesting server transfers or mergers and I got ripped to shreds by forceboys who refused to believe servers could be getting dwindling in populations already. This post was prior to search or post history (although I did repost it later).

I'm social, I hardly if ever used the LFG in WoW, but I can't seem to get the six other people on my planet to want to group up (or respond) for flashpoints and group content.
I sat at 50 for 2 weeks being unable to get anything done and now I dont feel like rerolling because thats just plain dumb. Sat in the fleet spamming for 2 hours a day over the course of 3 days just to try and get a high level instance group going and have not logged in since. I sure hope someone can look into some sort of trend with people just either quitting or constantly rerolling leaving others out in the cold unable to get anything productive done.

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Lalluna
01.23.2012 , 01:01 AM | #30
Quote: Originally Posted by Khryn View Post
People say this. They try comparing the Fleets to Stormwind and such. The difference is that people in WoW can sit in SW, trash talk in Trade Chat, and have the game make them a group and teleport them to a dungeon, and pretty much spoon feed you XP and Gold.

In TOR, people are spread out across the planets. You might say "Well, there are only 10 people on Hoth" but there are 175 on Coruscant right now. If you still have your WoW account, let me know how many people are in Darkshire right now? lol.
Because people dont sit at the Fleet at 50 searching for Hardmode groups as well as instant joining WZs? Oh wait.
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