NA Server Status 9:48 EST: Population Thriving!

Because it's fairly safe to assume that the number of people in fleet is somewhat proportional to the number of people playing (provided you take samples from the same time period/weekdays to compare).

Ex. go to a FULL WoW server, and look at Orgrimmar/Ironforge. It's PACKED full of people, right? Even though there's WAY more people *not* in Org/IF. Now go to a nearly empty WoW server, and check the same cities. Almost empty by comparison, right?


Yeah, a lot of people avoid hubs. But if half of the players quit (not an actual amount, just to give an example) then I'd expect the hub population to drop by about half, just as the rest of the population would.

Wait, when the server stats were showing less activity, that was the truth, but now that they show more activity, its a BW conspiracy??

So if I transfer my characters would I be able to keep my legacy exp?

Also where did they say Xfers were coming, I'd like a link.

The least populated servers have not had their cap increased so that doesn't really say much.

how do I know?

I was browsing torstatus.com or whatever the site with the server pop data is called and realized a ghost server, I knew for a fact was a ghost server showed very high on their list, above my two very well populated servers even.

Logged in, /who. Yeah. dead server.



heavy, standard, light. those words mean nothing.


tell that to the people playing on a "Standard" server where the little number above your chat says Republic Fleet: 23 on a weekday evening prime time. I dare you.

Why does it have to be a conspiracy? In the first few weeks of the game people were complaining about server queues so it would be natural for BioWare to increase the server population limits and redefine what equals light, medium, heavy, etc. Now people are complaining that the servers are empty so it wouldn't be beyond thinking that BioWare would redefine the qualitative ranks once again in order to avoid the appearance that server populations have taken a hit. I'm not saying that this is the case. I'm saying it could be the case. That's why I want numbers not qualitative ranks.

Cmon guys

It's not a conspiracy.

a lot of servers had their capacity increased, so many of those show as standard most of the time now, maybe heavy sometimes.

There are a lot of european ghost servers already though, most of them are still standard. I even saw one heavy a week or so ago

because the caps were not increased for those servers or maybe even decreased.

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Just spent an hour on my "heavy" server. 80 people at Imp Fleet. 30 people at Taris. Peeked on rep Fleet, a 100.

That's a complete joke for a "heavy" server pop. When I first started playing in early Jan Fleet pop was easily 170+ on both sides.

they are not trying to actively deceive anyone really. Although it certainly does not hurt giving people playing on a ghost server the impression things are not quite as dire as they seem to be. I mean after all it's still the "standard" community experience on a fleet of 30 man during prime time ,right?

all they did is increase the server cap on the well populated servers and the empty servers have decreased caps.

This is a fact and one you can easily convince yourself to be true by checking it out for yourself ingame.