Server PopulationFollow

Does anyone know if we will be able to see the amount of players logged on to a server like in the early days of EQ1?

I ask this because i will need a server which even has a good chance of finding fellow players in downpeak hours.

I hope SOE will not do all the patching in downpeak hours like they did with EQ1, but hey who blames them this way they have much less annoyed customers. I'm even used to it nowadays.

They aren't going to divulge exact numbers of how many are on the server at any given moment, just an indication of which have the most, least, etc. I vaguely recall a mention of some indicator of whether the server is sparsely or heavily populated, but since the old Sony EQ2 forums got wiped, it's hard to check into that :).