With all due respect, Bioware, I'm very sorry to see you go this route. To be honest, this strikes me as nothing short of server mergers, except you seem to be making the players do all the work. A real merger would have been so much simpler for all – you and us, the paying players.
I think our guild will lose a lot of players who just decide they would rather quit, than bother to go through all the hassle to move to a new server, even one that has more people on it. Sort of a "last nail in the coffin" reaction.
The work involved for each of us to move our characters and rename characters is going to be very daunting for some. The amount of work involved to reform our guild, get members invited and recreate our guild banks is going to take hours of work by all of our officers.
I am so disappointed in this decision and while I'm desperately wanting a server with real players on it, this option isn't it.
Please reconsider this. Thanks for reading.