The fresh-start thing is a nice novelty, but looking at the character transfer page, it looks like you can transfer to servers that have been open (or that you've had access to) for 30 days only... I suspect after 30 days the transfer characters will arrive in droves. Just my theory.

Not sure if server is just swamped or if there's an issue, been getting this for the past hour.... "A connection error has occurred. If this problem persists please visit www.swtor.com/support to contact our Customer Service team" Logging in to all the other servers just fine. This would have been my first login to the new server. After a few days - it seems that my error is being caused by the region being blocked by our buildings enterprise security software. I can access the server fine from elsewhere. Anyone else still having this problem logging in from managed community systems might look in that direction.

Still broken with 7.1 Digging Deeper update.

Still Broken with the new update.

Dunno dude, used my debit card just fine here in the US with zero problems.