My CPU is an i5 2500k 3.3Ghz quad core and I'm fine pretty much everywhere, so maybe there is some truth to what you are saying. I've heard my CPU easily overclocks to 4.5Ghz+ but I haven't bothered with that yet because my PC runs so fast that I don't see the need to push it to improve when I would barely notice the improvement.

Bioware made Sith more attractive. That is the root of the issue. The abilities are pulled off quicker (compare Death From Above to Mortar Volley), the animations are flashier, the gear is shinier and cooler looking (black armor >> brown sackcloth), hell even the classes are cooler (Sage vs Sorceror? throw pebbles or shoot lightning, your choice). Bioware made this mess.

I'm very close to going back to WoW, inches away from it and this is the LAST thing you should want.

I don't believe you for a second.

Wow that's even worse than the realm I left because I struggled to find groups. My old realm (Shadowtown) had about 60 level 50 Republics and over 100 level 50 Imperials throughout most of the day. Republic Fleet was usually 60-80 and Imperial Fleet was usually 150 or so.

On my realm there is at least 150 Republic on the Fleet and 200 Imperial on the Fleet at all times of the day. I talk to a lot of people and MANY people rerolled to my realm (The Swiftsure) recently because it's known as a high population realm. That is if they didn't quit. This issue is massive and must be addressed immediately. There are at least 10x too many realms for the population this game has. It never should've launched with so many realms. It should've launched with 10 NA and 10 EU and then opened more if it was necessary.

That means less than nothing to me. The only thing that matters is a quality gameplay experience. Low population realms cannot provide that. They should be merged.

Faction imbalance / server population is the biggest issue facing ToR. Ability Delay didn't even factor into the equation. This WILL kill the game.

It doesn't in WoW.

No, that is the least obvious time. The most obvious time would be in daytime hours when everyone is at school or work.

Racial slurs are not acceptable, yet there is a very common one in this thread title. Gypsies are people too. This is not cool.

My realm has a large Oceanic population. Peak hours for my realm are exactly when downtime happens. No sooner, no later. Exactly during peak hours.

You should be begging people to stay, not telling them to quit. This game needs more players, not less. It's already hurting badly from all the people that have quit.

LOL not even close. As it stands now, it is done when my server is at its most populated. There are a LOT of people that the swing shift.

What's confusing about the concept? My peak hours are the best hours of the day for me to play. I absolutely have peak hours.

Horde did not even REMOTELY have better storylines or gameplay, what are you talking about? Alliance is the more played faction in WoW: http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php Here are the latest figures. 56% Alliance. You have NO idea what you are talking about.

They should open up free faction transfers to Imperials only. Then, after a couple week they should start converting guilds en masse to Republic from Imperial if that didn't fix it. If this still doesn't fix it they should enforce faction queues (i.e. if 100 Imps are online, no more can log on until 100 Republics are online).

On my days off, sometimes I'll get a lot of gametime in and the timeframe when this game has the least amount of players logged on is 7 am EST to 5 pm EST. Maintenance should happen in that window.

On my realm, the only time there's a queue is after midnight PST. That's when the realm shifts gears from very heavy to full and you can tell the difference, Republic Fleet will go from 150 players to over 200 players. All during the normal maintenance hours. It's an absurd decision. Maintenance is FAR too early in the night. No other game I play does this. Maintenance is always very early in the morning. Not at midnight.

Uhhhhh no, WoW came up early if anything. And no, I was a heavy poster on the WoW boards, no one complained about the time frame that maintenance was applied in (which is not even remotely what you started babbling about). If maintenance in this game happened during, say, Friday, Saturday or Sunday then I wouldn't complain. I'd be out doing things. Since it happens on the BEST night of the week for me to play DURING MY PRIMETIME then I WILL complain. And it IS a dealbreaker and is getting me to consider dropping this game. WoW's times are literally infinitely better, why pay to play a WoW clone that has ridiculous maintenance times (midnight on PST? If I wasn't EST I'd have already quit this game) when I can just play WoW and actually play it instead of sit there during maintenance?

No, you have no idea what you are talking about. It has nothing to do with perceptions of good vs evil and EVERYTHING to do with aesthetic appeal.

I wouldn't compare it to WoW because of the lack of a LFG system. In WoW, once players hit level 10 they start spamming battlegrounds and once they hit 15 they start spamming LFG, I know more people that never quest in WoW than people that do quest. I had a guildie that took almost 6 months to get his Therazane shoulder enchant.

They need to start limiting populations. 1000 Imps on? Then none can log on until 1000 Republics are on. Hell, start lower. 100 Imps on? You get the idea. Offer free faction transfers to players upset about queues.

Weird. Both realms I've played on have not had this issue. In Shadowtown, Republic was by far the side to pick for raid progression and won nearly every WZ match. Those were more day time players though and I'm a night time player so I switched to The Swiftsure and same here, Republic players are a bit outnumbered but are better players so we win nearly every WZ and raiding is just fine.

You chose to play on a PVE server (why would you EVER do that?), you reap the penalties. PVE servers are a nightmare in games like this. It was the same in WoW. I don't really have any sympathy for you because you made your bed, now you get to sleep in it.