I play Empire on Kellian Jarro, fleet goes up to maybe 110 during peak hours in the weekend, still hard to find a group even with roughly double the amount of players.
I do hope BioWare is at least looking at possible server merges for low-pop servers, but there's no official word yet as far as I know.
I've heard two different rumours:
- BioWare will have to look into merging low-pop servers if they want to keep their player base
- BioWare will not look into server merges this early on as it's seen as a sign of weakness from the developing company, and it might make their stock drop.
Knowing it's all about the numbers at EA headquarters, the second rumour seems plausible, unfortunately.