What server would be best for an Australian?

[Kaidalen]

I am not technically looking to play with Australians, but I just want the most populated server so I can find people to play with and join a guild, I don't want to play alone or see empty areas. So yeah.

If there is a top server to play on that'll be great.

[Ymir's Breath]

There are many Guilds that openly recruit, try the link to the DDO Forums below.
As for population the guild ship travel, hall of heroes travel and popularity of some quests as opposed to others can skew population appearance.

https://www.ddo.com/forums/forumdisplay.php/223-Recruitment

[Soap]

Short answer:
If you're a new player, it may be best to just go with the default server. Or if you know you'll play at specific days/times definitely check the guild threads on the official forum.

Long answer:
I posted this yesterday in a different thread to answer a similar question, I'll elaborate below:

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The default server rotates to balance the total players on each server, and so the default server will probably have the most new and lvl 1-7 players at the time. There are only American located servers now; located in New Jersey. There used to be more https://ddowiki.com/page/Servers

When the EU servers were merged/closed, I think how it went was that they let players pick which American server to transfer to. But the players mostly all went to 2 maybe 3 of them. I know that Ghallanda was one of them, but I'm not sure on the others. Maybe Cannith or Orien?

It's probably more balanced now than it was then due to server rotation. But the servers with the most international players are still going to have more steady players 24/7 Ghallanda being one of them. The servers with more American players will have higher peaks during their typical playing times and less players overnight.

You can check during your play times in game by opening the social panel from the DnD icon in the bottom left corner, or by pressing "O" on the keyboard; and then clicking the "Who" tab.

The reasons I said 'new and lvl 1-7,' are:
-new players have to start at lvl1 unless they buy access to iconic races which can start at lvl15
-This free (also purchasable) favor reward unlock for playing https://ddowiki.com/page/Veteran_Status let's players start new characters at up to lvl 7
-experienced players don't hang around those low levels for more than a few days; whereas a new player might spend several weeks getting through those levels.

There's no reliable data on server population except maybe Steam which (and only because it) only accounts for a small percentage of the total player base (So it's only reliable regarding a small percentage). If you do some searching you can find people who have monitored the "who" tab and recorded their findings. However, there are huge problems with that data:

-It gets outdated almost immediately because it can unpredictably change any day, any week, and any time simply because a guild or two take a break to go play a different game or come back, or Chinese New Year, or flu season or whatever...
-One Account can only monitor one server at a time and must be in game to do so.
-They're just manually counting players they see on the "who" tab when they are on the server. There's no way for players to see all the players who logged in that day or timers for how long they played. But cheers to them for trying.

I really can't remember which other server/s players from the EU split to. After searching, I'm seeing people claim different ones, but the consensus is that Ghallanda was the main one. The others may be pretty equal now for international population except perhaps Wayfinder which used to be the German server.

*Ultimately, server choice atm may not matter greatly unless you have specific play times. It's my opinion, but it's likely that they'll do something within the next two years again to join players, either another merge or figure something else out. I know there have been threads on the forums about this, but I don't keep up with them regularly.
But there's a producer response from 2016 here:
https://ddowiki.com/page/Server_merge