There are a few comments that get thrown around regularly in the guild section official TOR forum, yet many of them are built on shaky foundations and only seem to remain in currency via the fact people keep saying them, rather than by actually being factual.
One of the classics runs something like, “Man! I’m going to play Republic, because there’s so few of us! It will be a massive challenge! We’ll be the underdogs!”
And, sure, it sounds all gung-ho and might excite people to hear someone say it, but consider this:
BioWare will, to the best of its ability, be trying to balance the population of Republic and Imperial characters via the guild process.
As such, when it comes to your server, you will see the Republic and Empire actually balanced pretty well. It’s the whole point of the guild process.
So just some food for thought, next time you hear someone say, “Man! I’m going to play Republic, because there’s so few of us! It will be a massive challenge! We’ll be the underdogs!” do consider the reality of the guild process and what it will achieve.
These Republic martyrs really aren’t quite what they portray themselves as.
Well, that, and there’s not indication that factions will be terribly imbalanced. All the information we have suggests that it’s a 50/50 split, only a small percent difference overall.
Now, this is across all servers mind you. But I think guilds will help keep that stable.