I must admit I didn't read all the posts in this and so my point might already be covered, but as RP-PvP server guild leader and working in cooperation with other guild leaders I see a server forum a necessity. We have guilds on both Republic and Empire side, and we need a decent channel to announce events, to organise them and overall, to know who is playing on "our" server to welcome and introduce them to the community.
There are many people who never visit the 10,000 subforums even though they might have the interest to participate in various types of server events. At the moment with prelaunch it's still easy to find the relevant posts, but how about in two months or so?
Another point still is that even on RP-PVP server there are non-roleplayers, and none of those would even consider checking out RP forums, even though there might be an RP-oriented PVP event coming they might be interested in. Without server forums, this will lead to dual or triple postings of the same subject in different forums to reach all whom this may interest, which in turn contributes to the amounts of clutter in the forums. Rethinking a lot is what is needed here.
Please, input the server forums as soon as possible.