The end of the arguement. Is SWTOR in decline? Can it be saved?

Ok. So we can go to the next step now I think. Now acknowledge that merging and transfering is a temporary solution for those who decided to stay at this point, and have nothing to do with fixing the game at all. It will just prevent in common frustrated players who are stayed to not left. It's mending a hole in the side of our TORtanic (seriously I like this name, don't use it to piss anyone off, besides Titanic was greatest and most advanced ship ever created, right? ) so we don't get even more water and we can still keep ourselves above the sea. Got my analogy? Now. Look at our active playerbase (please, mention subs proven by BW and I will just start shotin' laz0r with my eyes xD) - it's shattered. You're perfectly right that things like this (losing active players) is happening after release in every MMO - no doubts with it. But - yes, there's allways a "but" - this usually isn't happening on such great scale. At worst servers from super heavy should change to heavy/normals in peak hours. This means there's a HUGE drop in active players in this moment in time. Also you (or not you, sorry, I don't remember who wrote what actualy) are reffering to WoW have lots of "light" servers - yet that "light" servers are way more crowded than your heavy. And our "light" are just like point 0 in Chernobyl. I will state in advance, please don't mention how many subs have WoW because it doesn't really matter - the same thing is with Aion or Lineage who had way less subs BEFORE they went F2P. I'm just saying that light servers here are just unplayable in terms of MMO genre. I'm also not saying that low number of active players in general packed on 3 servers instead of 20 is bad. No, it's good that there will be 3 crowded servers so those people can actually enjoy their stay. But personally I doubt that 3 crowded servers (yes I took this number out of my cup of tea, but if you ask me I think there will be 2-3 crowded PVP servers and atleast 1 or 2 PVE servers) will generate enough cash to make BW able to rapidly (this is crucial in MMO market these days, rapidly - if you don't want to sink ofcourse. Rift makers acknowledged this since beggining, that's why their WoW clone still have lots of active players - new stuff is just dripping out from the screen) add new stuff.

Fatman is nothing like the only server with such a population, almost any standard status server has such a number, fatman has a far higher number than that, for it to have queues in the first place, it must be in the thousands.

Personally if you ask me, I play on EU fatman - Tomb of Freedon Nadd - the last time I'd seen any queues was 1st day after patch 1.2 and they were only for a while - 3 minute queues (hanging in total for about 1 hour I believe yet I didn't stand there with clock in my hand, max arround 2h) - after that didn't seen any queue up to date. Including last weekend - I think mentioning mondays is pointless anyway

Are you high?
I played on a "Heavy" status server and we had no where near the population that Fatman has. During peak times we had maybe 200 Empire and 100 Republic, if lucky.

I play on The Red Eclipse, and it has basic 180 on fleet on regular nights, and almost never dips to below 100, at primetime it can skyrocket to nearly 600.

I'm not on Fatman. I'm on a standard server. The population is just fine. I don't have problem finding groups. The notion that every player not on Fatman is in a ghost world is completely bogus. This doesn't detract from the notion that some servers have population problems, but when you say things like this you lose all credibility.

Nice hyperbole
I play on three different servers and none of them are ghost towns

350 is the minimum population for Standard actually.

And you also misinterpreted my statement, It was in reply to a statement that assumed Fatman was the only server he could be playing on because he had a 200 population, this assumption is way off.

This.

BS
Unless you can provide proof.