When will there be a "SERVER MERGE?"

btw can anyone provide this kind of info:
sorcerer - 66
mercenary - 44
operative - 28
juggernaut - 27
marauder - 27
powertech - 26
assasin - 25
sniper - 16
about so called "heavily populated servers"
this one is Fatman reported as Heavy at that time and 259 lvl 50 imperial side?
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Yes, because I was playing on that server yesterday, and right around the same time, on the Republic side, there were:

100+ on Tython
130+ on Coruscant
180+ on the Republic Fleet
80+ on Tatooine

...and I'm sure you can sort of extrapolate how many might be on Taris, Nar Shaddaa, and probably a little less toward the higher end planets.

Not sure how many of these were L50s, but I hope you do understand that the server status labels refer to ALL players on a server, not just the Imperials.

we have what, three threads in the 60+ page range now and not even a nod from something golden in here?

There are 150 people on republic sid eon my server right now and it's not even close to one of hte "Lowest" population servers. 15 minutes minimum for a PVP Q and it ends early because there aren't enough people in it... what a tease.

Using the "ignore the problem and it'll go away" method works in MMOs, just ask one of hte developers from one of the 20 or so failed MMOs over the last 4 years. Ignore your subscribers and they do, in fact, go away.

I'm sure they aren't ignoring us, just busy trying to find a workaround. Not all servers are experiencing these problems, but mine certainly is. It's got to be alot of work, even more so then merging servers in WoW or Rift ever was. We will have identical names, guild names, legacy names, etc that all have to be worked out. Who gets preference on legacy or character names during server merges, and why? these are some of the problems that present themselves on server merges. Again though, I do think something needs to happen on it because my server (bondar crystal) is dying fast as people are just giving up and moving to the fatman. If 1.2 doesn't bring alot of people back, or if they don't merge servers I don't see anyway bondar crystal can survive long term and I don't want to reroll from scratch on one of the servers like fatman but if 1.2 doesn't solve alot of the population problems, it's all but inevitable I'll have to move to a new server. I love this game and want to play it for years, but Bioware has to do something about underpopulated servers. There's no shame in having to merge servers for a better player experience, even the mighty WoW merges servers quite often.

That was taken out of context.

Someone implied that "if the servers are so dead then the number of people that are affected by it must be a small percentage of the playerbase"

To which I responded that he must not be good at math. The numbers were taken mostly from here -

http://www.swtor.com/community/showt...350700&page=15

Byerley did a fairly decent job of explaining it. If you look back earlier in this thread, Notdonnareed had a fairly similar conclusion in regards to population caps as well.

350 appears to be the the bare minimum required for standard ranking on the server list. Where this number caps at is still speculation, but it is probably around 2000. 1800 was reported by others a few times.

Assuming that the heavy and full servers are at 2500 or more, and noting that there are only 5 or so out of the (last I heard) 200 or so other servers.

Even saying there are 10 good servers with an average population of 2500 or more between EU and US, that's only 25,000. The other 190 servers with an average of 500 (which includes the light servers with under 350, and the standard servers with 1800 or so, so 500 is the number I went with) comes out to be a bit short of 100,000.

Granted, the "standard" population servers with 1800 aren't experiencing the same problems as the ones with 350 or 500, so even if you wanted to go ahead and cut the number in half to account for the standard servers that aren't having the same issues, you are still looking at 50,000 people who are having issues vs 75,000 who aren't. That clearly isn't a small portion of the population

125,000 is roughly consistent with the fact that rarely, if ever, do MMO's have more then 10% of their player base playing. Which, when multiplied out, comes to a bit under 1.25 million subs (given that I rounded up slightly earlier). This number isn't too unrealistic either.



So yes, you can disagree/agree with my numbers but this is how I got them. I'm sure I'll be torn to shreds over something I missed.