When will there be a SERVER MERGE?

Anyone wanna re-roll somewhere? if so send me a pm no casuals!

Close Freedon nadd to rerollers let em go overpopulate another server or all go to a standard server and populate that.

I want server transfer not a merge. I want to choose wherre to move my toon.

Is there possibility to transfer to another server?

They are working on server transfers. But if they dont allow all toons to be transfered for free, the whole legacy system is pointless. Posting my rant below.

Ill try not to QQ but itll be hard to sound level headed. This game desperately needs a server merge, or unlimited free transfers. My server is empty, I cant consider TOR an MMO at this population, and at the current state of end game, this is crippling (about 5 people on the repub fleet during off hours). The entire legacy system is built upon multiple characters on one server, as such if they don't allow for you to move ALL of your characters for free, server transfers will not solve the problem. Rerolling on a new server invalidates all of the work I've put in so far, and is not an option. It is frustrating that server merges are off limits, because it would be an incredibly easy solution. I will wait out my pay period and the extra free 30 days, but if nothing is done to remedy this, I will most likely be joining my friends who still play WoW (though I havent played for upwards of 4 years). Server merge or unlimited free transfers by the end of the free 30 days please please please, or I will be another casuality that actually enjoys the game, and I'm sure there will be many more.

Server Merge Seems like a viable solution until you think on;

1.where will you go? will you pick or the devs?

2. if you are leaving a communty attitude on a server, how do you ensure your leaving it,
and it isnt coming with you?

3.The server imbalance was partly due to that pre-guild plan where guild numbers got inflated, threw a few things off...what criteria will make servers open to go to, or what servers will be "Transfer from only"?

There is so many other things I can mention, so then you say, well given a free transfer, everyone would go to a few servers that are full and cause the same problem of wait times etc. Yes I belive this could very well happen with free transfers as well.

Lets consider... Anyone here who has rerolled on a new server, had to look at it for a few days, make up their mind to it, roll a tune and see what the chat and groups are like. And is the server already too full.

Paid to transfer system would almost certainly make you do this before you dropped down the cash...yes?

Would this not make for stronger need to get with guildies and freinds to figure out where the best place to land is ? And not just jump onto Fatman, or Swiftsure because of numbers alone?

Lastly, would you not call the topics of paid transfers, and sever merges, to be 2 different things?( personal peeve for mods )

No merges for a long long time.

I love this game so much. I planned (and would still love to) play this game until it's death. I was just expecting that death to come years from now, not weeks. Bioware, I'm begging you to please save your own game! I don't care how you solve the problem, but the populations NEED to be addressed or even players like me who love your game and your company will be forced to quit because the game is unplayable at current population levels. This is priority 1 now, so stuff your pride and whatever other plans you have and focus on this. I can't justify renewing my sub until I at least hear about a plan to address this. If you wait months, it will be too late...

Stephen Reid posted some things on Twitter regarding this on 4/14. Nothing definitive, sure, but info nonetheless.

Here it is:

pgdeaner:
@Rockjaw We all appreciate the hard work that went into 1.2, thanks. Is there any word on character transfers?

Rockjaw (Stephen Reid):
@pgdeaner Being worked on.

Meheecan:
@Rockjaw Is merging something you might do? I love my community, but I hate that in the prime time theres like 40 on the fleet..

Rockjaw (Stephen Reid):
@Meheecan We are getting character transfer ready, which will help.

been reading these forums and all i see is people wanting free transfers. well not to burst your bubbles that is not going to help the fact there is TOO MANY SERVERS.

simply put there are not enough players for the amount of servers active. so transfers are just going to hurt the population on most of the servers. witch as we know are already hurting as the system is now.

the only way to truely fix the issue at hand is to merge servers. basically cut the amount of servers active in half. this will bring all the dead servers to atleast heavy.

once the servers have been merged then alowing transfers would be much more reasonable. for now transfers are not and will not help the issue of population.

merging would also be a simple way of dealing with the legacy system and a added bonus to those people who are on a server witch gets merged get the option to rename your legacy.

so again transfers are not going to help untill the servers get merged. otherwise all we are going to have is a bunch of people transfering to random servers like chickens with the head cut off.

MERGING would also be way easier for Bioware to deal with rather than 750k server transfer request. merge first and you will lower the amount of people wanting to transfer witch would be the smartest thing to do.