Quote Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz View Post
Defiant seems pretty populated. The Guardians are lame in every zone except Stillmore/Shimmersand -- if it wasn't for us Defiants guarding their wardstones, they'd lose every damn invasion.

Really, though, versus your med/high population WoW servers, it still feels like low population. Cap cities are pretty busy as are rifts in the level 50 zones. Everywhere else seems fairly....deserted? Deserted seems too negative -- it's not dead, but I will definitely go for a few hours at times without seeing anyone while out questing.
This wasn't a problem for me. There are always people around on Wolfsbane. According to http://www.riftstatus.net/, Wolfsbane has around 30% more players than Alsbeth (not counting the imbalance between factions, which I'm not sure of).

That's why I've been iffy about transfering


Quote Originally Posted by Lyonheart View Post
how do transfers work. can i change sides on the same server?
Just click on the character you want to move in the selection screen and hit transfer. It will bring up a list of available servers. The servers it allows you to transfer to are always low/medium population (if you're on a populated server). You can "name change" for free by creating characters with the same name on that server before you transfer, so that your names are "taken". Then it allows you to rename your characters.

The issue is, as I said, you can only transfer to less populated realms, which is a downer.