When will there be a "SERVER MERGE?"

I am just hoping someone that works on swtor can give us some sort of timeframe on when merges/transfers will begin.

If I can move my main off of my dead server, I will pay for another 6 months at least.

If we could transfer our characters from these dying servers to a more stable and popular server this problem would be solved. Or a even better option would be to merge serves together for a much higher play base.
PS this is only in reference to my leveling on courageous server... i also am currnelty rolling a new toon on warriors of shadow... which is much better player base!

50 shadow "Talmuiriin" courageous
LVLing sith sorcer Morgia warriors of shadow

I'm sure they are working on it and will let us know as soon as they are available. I can see free transfers for the most dire straits servers in regards to population, and paid transfers for everyone else. The cons of server mergers are just too high and it waves the white flag of defeat to anyone considering playing the game, turning them away.

Its funny, I saw a post yesterday asking for server mergers because the guy was mad that there was a queue on The Fatman server now; the very same cries that got the game into this mess in the first place. If it weren't so sad, it'd almost be comical.

The arrogance of these horrible developers, man do I loathe these people...I seriously *********** hate them.

How about a single *********** word Mr. James Ohlen...you are failing!

I have to agree with poster above... a single *********** word would help. Just acknowledging the issue would help put people at ease. Hell , even a "Soon" would be better than the complete silence from the Devs.

I think you're underestimating the value of the people who are on servers affected by this.

Go to the server page and LOOK at how many light servers there are. Mine's one of them, it's a server I chose in early game access. There is no reason that One server The Fatman is Heavy, and a handful more are sitting at standard.... but the majority are light.

I've personally got a lot of stuff I still wanna do. gonna level up a jedi knight and sage post 1.2, still need to cap 3 of the craft skills and I wanna see how ranked PVP pans out.

Problem for me is once I level up those two alts I'll have my tradeskills maxed and if i log in for an hour and spend the entire time running circles around the fleet waiting on a Q I'm gonna log off. That happens too many times and I'm gonna find something else to do with my gametime. That situation is going to happen to a lot of people if they don't fix this population issue, why log in if you can't do anything productive in the time you have to play? Why pay if you're not logging in anymore...

It's a MMO the single player story can only support it so long, we 'need' people to play the game and we aint getting a heavy influx of new people no matter how many friends we get to invite so they need to work with what they got before they lose it.

No it signals your team has reason and you aren't under the delusion you are the next WoW. Player's happiness should come before pride. The only defeat is the constand denial by many of the players here against the inevitable which is that the game has dead and dying severs which need merges and transfer. I am not saying to allow 1 per month like Rift but give people on all but the 3 or 4 heavy full sever the chance to find a new home with all the characters they have devoted time to.

Why won't they respond to this issue? It is really starting to piss me off and I love the game and have played so many hours of it.

On my latest 50, my fourth 50, an assassin I decided to grind to battlemaster...I am valour 56 now and guess what - I have to look forward to the grind to battle with basically nothing but gosh darned hutt ball because our server is LIGHT 24/7.

MERGE THEM, it's more important then fluffy legacy. Besides who on these servers is going to want to take advantage of the legacy system. I know there's no way im rolling another alt on planets with 7 people on them.

EDIT: I put something else besides Gosh Darned but apparently it changed it for me. How about "F$($CKING HUTTBALL"

This morning - I know, not peak time - 8 on the fleet. 7 on Belsavis. 2 in guild. I'd prefer a merge to a transfer, because my guildies who are still playing are great to play with, but if it's got to be transfers - please allow us to move our entire Legacy. And please, do it soon.