I don't know what server half of you guys are playing on, but any starter area I goto I see countless people. More than I can count. I goto cities, and I will see a ton. The fleet station is packed constantly on my server as well. I have not been to any planet without a ton of people (unless you want to count higher level zones, in which they have few because there isn't as many at that point yet.) I got to 50 pretty fast, so I didn't level with the vast majority... possibly your same issue.