Legacy Level 50 on Shae Vizla

Last year in June I made a post to commemorate the milestone of hitting legacy level 50 on Star Forge, making it the second server on which I achieved this feat. I said I'd post again when I achieved the same on another server, so... here we are!

I hit legacy level 50 on Shae Vizla this weekend, after completing the featured veteran flashpoint of the week for Galactic Seasons. And yes, I failed to get a screenshot of it once again, though I wasn't completely oblivious to the event this time. I was in fact very aware that I was getting close, but to be honest the flashpoint had been a bit unpleasant from my perspective, so that distracted me... When we clicked the console at the end to trigger completion, I got about ten different message pop-ups about achievements, Conquest and seasonal progression, and the couple of seconds it took me to realise "oh snap, I also dinged legacy level 50; I should take a screenshot" were too much of a delay, as the relevant text had already faded from my screen again.

You may be wondering how my legacy on Shae Vizla ended up getting ahead of Satele Shan, the Leviathan and Tulak Hord, where I've been playing for longer, and the answer is simply that I played on SV pretty intensely for a few months when it first came out, which ended up giving me a boost. It's also the secondary server where I've completed the largest number of class stories, with that number currently sitting at four (warrior, consular, trooper and bounty hunter).

That said, these days it doesn't really get any extra play time compared to the other servers on which I primarily play for Galactic Seasons. It does always make me a bit sad to remember how bustling and alive the Shae Vizla server was at its launch compared to how it is now. This Sunday it occurred to me to work my way through the levels in /who (so typing "/who 1-9", "/who 10-19" etc. in quick succession) and around 8pm Sydney time, what I would expect to be prime time for the APAC region, there were only a little over 100 people online on Imp side. Even if we're generous and assume about the same amount of activity on Republic side, 200 concurrent players is not a lot for an official SWTOR server. Maybe there are other times of day when it's busier if the population is still skewed towards including as many US and EU players as there seemed to be at launch, but it can't be that much better I reckon.

Anyway! The other three servers on which I haven't hit legacy level 50 yet are not that far off either at this point - I believe they are all around legacy level 45 or so. I wouldn't expect to ding 50 there this season, but I could see myself hitting that milestone on all three servers in quick succession at some point next year.