Are there actually a bunch of Dead servers?

Or are people just QQing? I keep seeing people saying they have a dead server and asking servers to be merged or to add a server change option. I'm on Ajunta Pall, which is one of the ones that keeps switching between "standard" and back to "light." There are always a bunch of people on. So there are really just a bunch of dead servers, with nothing going on?

I've seen and heard a lot of the same thing. The server I'm jumps from light to standard and sometimes heavy on the weekends. One person I talked to said she could name everyone that used the GTN because there were so few players on her server. My personal opinion is they overestimated the player base and had way to many servers. A merge or transfers are definitely needed.

I had chars on a server where the max population at peaktime was : 13 on fleet, 1 on ilum, 2 Correlia and 2 Belsavis.

Dont care much for what lowbee planets did, but my guess is not much better.

The game should not end at 50 but start at 50. With hardly any endgame population it's fair to say servers are dead.

Thank the Maker I rerolled before I had a GG char, made it easier to abandon it.

I am on Kath Hound, and we average about 32 (Imperial) players on fleet, peak I have seen 60. Planets for questing or doing heroics are sparse, some only have 4 or 5 (no not Quesh), some 12 or so... hardly ever enough willing bodies to do heroics.

So, dead is a relative term to what you are looking to accomplish I guess.

Server merges would be nice, but I doubt they will happen.

The thing is sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the legitimate dead server claims and the silly ones. I remember that once someone posted a republic station screenshot with a very low population but the screenshot was taken around 3am CST. There seems to be a lot of exaggeration about the dead servers situation.

Ok, unleash the replies now...

Okay. I understand now. See, on Ajunta Pall, we average like 50-90 played on the fleet, sometimes more. And at peak hours, there rarely less that 20 people on a given planet, usually more there as well. I know everyone has high level character that they're attached to, but why don't you make some toons here? The more the merrier! it might make you enjoy the game again!

I think it was Daniel Erikson who explained (in a podcast) what happened at the SWTOR launch. They had to create hundreds of servers because the demand was enormous and the average daily playtime for the first months was around 8 hours! They had to do it to prevent atrocious queue times and lags. Now back to the present: the average playtime dropped but not the population. Plus, many players migrate from standard-light servers to heavy-very heavy-full servers like The Fatman and Tomb of Freedon Nadd. That combination led to some "death" servers. It was kind of predictable. It's interesting how Bioware will solve that.

Its not overstatement at all. What you expect with 100+ servers?
Merge is definetly needed to recreate state from first two months after the release where it was like 300-400 ppl in fleets and ~100 on questing planets.

Finding a group for flashpoint below 50lvl is now mission impossible...:/

Im from Uthar Wynn, according to a certain website we are the #1 LOWEST populated server in the EU.

At peak times across the server we get around 80 people online (thats everywhere) Republic, Imps is a little lower around 65.

Saying that though, I am from a very active guild (around 50 active members), and we do everything the game offers, including 16man Operations. The only down side to our server is PvP WZ's, you cant get a game before midday, or after 2330, as there just isnt the people in the queue.

People always say 'there is only 2 people on xx planet' but those players have already at least 1 level 50, and honestly how many times do you want to run Mandalorian Raiders, or a 2+ Heroic on Coruscant??

Cross server PvP (even if I dont like it - I like the community we have on Uthar) will solve most of the problems on lower pop servers

There are a lot of EU servers that are constantly on light regardless what time of the day it is or if it's weekend. It is somewhat a problem as MMOs include interaction with other players and on some servers you can hardly find a HM Flashpoint group.