AS of Game Update 5.7a Star Wars The Old Republic’s site doesn’t show active population values on the server status page. This is intended, not a bug!
Apparently this is an intended change so that the server status page matches the in-game interface for server select which as changed a few months ago (with Patches 5.5 and 5.5.1 – the United Forces Update). With the previous in-game change and now the web change, Bioware ultimately removed the following two columns: Server Population and Server Type.
The explanation below is exactly as it was written by Community Manager Eric Musco on the official forums:
- Server population – This column was fairly misleading due to the way in which it generated its value. The value it displayed was the current population relative to the total population cap. This often created situations where servers with more players would actually show as lighter than a less populated server due to its pop relative to its hardware cap. For that reason we removed it altogether.
- Server type – Since we made the change where a player can be in any instance type, we no longer have specified server types. We similarly removed this column so it wouldn’t falsely impact a player’s server choice.
If someone was using a widget to get that information from our site previously, they should just need to adjust it for the missing columns.
Here is what the Server Status Page looks like today:
