Dont need that many sub-forums, hard enough trawling through the ones we have. KISS One for Guilds, maybe sub divided into Republic/Empire; one for trade and the main forum for everything else. After the game starts the forums will mostly be used for complaints, so keeping the indiserver forums simple and clear to navigate makes them more usefull and easier to navigate.
As a long time SGW Flurry server troll, a server with a long established, loyal, vocal population, i can tell you we saw 4/5 new threads a day, but 100+ posts on exisiting high quality threads.