The game appeared very dead to me until I finally decided to change servers and switched to the Fatman. Now there are three hundred people in fleet during prime time, and most planets have a humdred people leveling up.
I really wish that Bioware would have tried to be pre-emptive and allowed transfers as I would have rather transferred than started from scratch. I really prefer Republic but am now Empire as I have already played the Republic stories multiple times. So, I am now level 30 on Fatman and have six toons, two 50s, 31, 20, and an 18 on a dead server.
Checked in last night on my old Guild last night on the old server, 29 players in fleet and only eleven were 50s. Everyone standing around wishing they could do something.
Bioware would have had my praise if they would have taken action on this earlier, as the dead servers will not recover. New players are not going to roll on a server where they fell like they are isolated and alone.