I don't understand why Bioware would favor the Empire this much - it's flabbergasting to me. I just don't see how these huge differences can survive years of beta... Oh, right, they didn't have a public beta at all....... THIS IS WHY PEOPLE WERE QQing ABOUT NOT HAVING A PUBLIC BETA, BIOWARE - GET WITH THE PROGRAM. If they had a larger, longer lasting public beta, maybe they would have caught things like this and the thousands of other things that are wrong about this game. It's really heartbreaking to me, because their are so many awesome things about this game - some of the class mechanics are just mind-blowingly good, but they had to go and screw it all up by throwing in game responsiveness that is comparable to a 600 ping dial-up modem connection. And don't get me started about the GTN...
But, yes, Republic seems to win about 15-20% of the time on my server as well.
/sigh