What Are The Top Five Servers?
Go to the server select screen, notate the 5 that are on the bottom.
Note that the last server you logged into will be the one on top.
Log into the 2nd server in the list. Drop back to the server select screen. Now notate again the last 5 servers in the list.
You will now have your answer.
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I meant in general. Not what servers are currently the most populated. Meaning, if they were ranked by most members per server what would the top five be.
Personal Tip: whatever server you're on, you still stand a better chance of finding teams if you start them yourself and then advertise them in the established global channel(s).
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I meant in general. Not what servers are currently the most populated. Meaning, if they were ranked by most members per server what would the top five be.
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The rest have tended to swap places over time, so there is no definitive answer beyond those two. Infinity almost always ranks in the top five, and a couple others are usually never in the top five, but otherwise there really is no better answer to your question.
Edit: Stalemate makes a good point as well. Regardless of what server you're on joining that server's global channels makes teaming much easier. You could be playing on the lowest population server and usually find a team faster by asking that server's global teaming channel(s) than on the most populated server without joining the channels.
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Thanks for the tip. I do that all the time. I'm just concerned with my original question for the sake of server transfers.
Don't hold me to this, but here's what I think are the most populated servers:
Freedom
Virtue
Justice
Infinity
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The answer to the title of your thread is subjective. Everyone's 'Top 5' will be different.
For me, Freedom would not be in the top 5, matter of fact it would be last.
And the server list goes by activity, the least active being right below the top slot (last server logged into.) The fact that Freedom and Virtue also have the highest population pretty much means that they are almost always in the bottom two slots.
Yes, Virtue and Freedom are the undisputed top 2. Infinity and Justice often bounce in 3rd/4th place. You do, however, have to account for time. I believe you're asking about what servers are populous on average; I use Champion, which is often in the middle range, but late at night it's often in the top 5. During the day, back to middling.
I'm not sure if this is the case with other servers, but it might be bast to just look at the rankings during your own play periods to see what aligns with your schedule.
When I checked a few weeks ago, freedom and virtue were around 1200 each and all the other servers were around 2-300 each.
recently freedom and virtue were around 1700 each and infinity was around 500 .
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Don't ask me to give you a direct quote but I seem to remember some official person saying that Freedom is the largest with Virtue second and the rest tied for third. This would mean that the difference between the rest isn't really that great.
Last time I checked it was:
Freedom
Virtue
Infinity
Justice
Guardian (yay!)
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Given that no one is forced to play on one and only one server, many of the longtime players play on more than one (either by choice or because they've filled up all 36 slots on their server of preference). While Freedom and Virtue are the top two consistently in terms of population, the servers occupying the other positions in that particular ranking are going to vary from moment to moment and day to day. So any list we give you is already wrong.

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Transferring some characters I started to wonder what the top five servers currently are. I'd like to add what toons I have to more populated servers so I might have a better chance at teaming etc. I'm guessing Freedom would be at the top of that list. What would the other four be?