Sirs, I have looked and looked on the forums and google searches to find out some answers on activating and deactivating strongholds. I have found some stuff but nothing definitive. I know with the current 5.4 patch you can have 6 active strongholds. But with this patch release there are now 7 available to purchase and decorate. Here are my questions, Are their plans to increase the active stronghold limit? If you deactivate, do you have to redecorate when you reactivate or does it just freeze the decorations in place? My understanding is if you bought the stronghold with Cartel Coins it is free to reactivate. If you bought it with credits you will have to only rebuy the initial opening of that stronghold? Your help would be very much appreciated, Dalla Suul

DS, Thanks for the info on your lessons learned. Yea I just found out that transfers were probably on hold till Tuesday. I know I have 1 free transfer and hopefully they stay on sale for the next few weeks. Now just to make sure i have what i want and don't want to be in that characters storage. I use alts banks as storage for the good and bad of that. Thanks again...

DS, Along your thought line, transfer some level 60 to another server and take the overall legacy and decorations to that server. So now its a mirrored legacy and you really understand what transferred and what was lost in the transfer. If you don't like it transfer back at a later time. I just need to think which toon to transfer and make sure i have enough credits and other mats to be somewhat self reliant. I know I have 1 free transfer, just not sure if transfer from our realm are free right now or are transfers still on sell for 90 CC or not. What are your thoughts about this?

D, Not a bad suggestion and it may be the only option. But when you have invested so much into fantastic strongholds I think it would be hard for me to swallow. I did hear from a couple people that the developers are looking into these types of issues and have even mentioned it a couple times on twitter and live feeds. I don't think anybody wants to commit to anything hard right now because I think they are working hard on the expansion and if they make it ultimately successful then this is a lessor point they can address in the future as needed. Thanks for your comment.

SQ, Thanks for your response, but I have 7 level 60s. I often wait for 30 min to 1 hour or longer for BGs to pop, I can't always play during prime time evening hours. While your response is valid it does not really respond to the overall issues here. If we transfer servers all assets and game accomplishment should transfer, this is the developer just not spending the time to address this issue, while offering free transfers so that they hopefully wont have to either by people electing to transfer on their own. Future comments welcome.....

All, I really need advice, note I am a subscriber. I really want to stay on "The Prophecy of the Five" server but am really unsure of its viability right now. Depending on the time of day there are not that many people on. For example at 5:30 PM today there were 33 level 60s logged on and I have been checking from like noon today and the number has been as low as 12 and has high as 40. I don't mind the low population a lot of the time when i am just messing around, but the queue times for BGs and groups can be an hour or longer and queue times for raids never pop. This issue really popped its head up when 2-3 large guilds transferred off a month or so ago. I understand that they are either offering free or only 90 cartel coin transfers currently but that really does nothing but start all the issues if I decide to transfer. I really hate losing my character names but at the end of the day if that happens I can probably live with that. I have spent a lot of time and credits buying and decorating my 4 strongholds, as I understand this all stronghold unlocking only happens on the transfer if this was paid for with Cartel Coins which most of mine were paid for in-game credits, so this could be a size able costs to reopen that could be in the 40-50 million credits or more range. In addition, I would have to redecorate all 4 strongholds and that would take a considerable amount of my time. In addition with what I am reading I could lose another 10-20 million credits and or a lot of cartel coins reopening other unlocks like Legacy storage and other things that don't transfer. I really like playing the game but am struggling, I am hoping this is just a slow period before the new expansion comes out in a month but my gut is telling me that will fix the issue for a short time but exasperate it later. I don't want to quit playing the game but those kind of issues are weighting on me very hard right now. I contacted customer support and got nothing but to contact in game support and a lot of wishy-washy answers about transferring. Do I wait it out till server consolidation maybe occurs again, but my feeling is that probably will never do that again unless they figure out all the other issues before then. Please advise