Right now I'm on a server that is relatively dead, despite being one of the mid-range population servers listed on torstatus.net.

I'd like to start playing on a more populated server, in the hopes I can transfer my other characters and Legacy over to join my new character later, but Bioware has been silent for weeks on the how or when specifically this is going to happen.

I'm worried that if I start playing on a more populated server, then you guys end up doing server mergers instead of transfers, or transfers only to certain servers from certain servers (i.e. I can't transfer characters from my old server to my new one) I will have essentially lost all that.

On the other hand, if you ARE doing server mergers by rolling in less populated servers into mid range servers, maybe my server will end up not being so dead once it happens and there is no need for me to play on a new server at all and I'll just have to wait a bit to do things like group quests and flashpoints or operations.

Either way, right now I'm a holding pattern that is preventing me from playing anything at the moment, and I know I'm not alone in that, so any update you could give us would really, really be appreciated.

Nope they expect you to continue to pay them to be silent and just be happy when/if we get a solution to the ghost town problem.

don't worry tho people will keep posting telling you the game is fine and not to "troll"

Either way, right now I'm a holding pattern that is preventing me from playing anything at the moment, and I know I'm not alone in that, so any update you could give us would really, really be appreciated.

This is where I'm at as well. I haven't logged in since shortly after the Rakghoul event. I want to roll new characters, try out the other storylines, and take advantage of the legacy perks I've unlocked but not if it means leveling them solo. That's not why I'm here.

Greetings,

We do realize that server population and related topics are of great concern to our community. There are already a few different conversations you can join, so you might want to add your thoughts here:

Server Population: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=438399

Server Transfers: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=441119

Server Merges: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=399294

Daniel Erickson on Server Population: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=417608

You may also be interested in reading what Dallas Dickinson said regarding server transfers in a recent Weekly Q&A:

Arymono: When will character transfers be available for everybody?

 

Dallas Dickinson (Senior Producer, Live Services): We will be rolling out our Character Transfer Service in early summer. First we’ll have some targeted free transfers from/to specific servers, but that will be followed with a broader system where you can either take advantage of free promotional transfers to specific servers or paid transfers to the server of your choice. We know everyone has more questions about character transfer, and we’ll reveal more details closer to the launch date.

 

 

 

DrakeAssaShin: What is being done to address low population servers?

 

Dallas: The Character Transfer Service, as mentioned above, will be offering free transfers from/to specific servers. This should allow the most motivated players to get onto a higher population server.

We hope this sheds some light on the issue. We are closing this thread now. Thank you for your feedback!