Between June 22nd and July 6th, SOE will begin merging the aging EverQuest servers in order to maintain reasonable player levels across it's worlds. The servers scheduled to merge are:

Stromm and Luclin
Drinal and Maelin Starpyre
Xegony and Druzzil Ro
The Tribunal and Bristlebane
Fennin Ro and Cazic Thule
Saryrn and Bertoxxulous
The Seventh Hammer and Tunare
Prexus and The Rathe
Quellious and Povar
Erollisi Marr and The Nameless

As part of the merge players will be offered free server transfers after your characters have been moved to their new home, allowing you to decide where they will finally end up. Likewise, SOE will be offering customer service items from the in-game Marketplace at a reduced cost, including Character Transfers for 1000 SC, character name change potions for 500 SC, gender change potions for 500 SC, character name and gender change potions for 700 SC and race change potions for 1500 SC.

It should be noted that characters below level 10 that haven't been logged into for 6 months or longer will be deleted (whelp, there goes all of mine!) and if you have more than 8 characters on post-merged server you will have to delete or move some of them to access the additional ones.

Shared banks should also be emptied out prior to the move to ensure you don't lose your loot.

SOE is also calling out for player input on the name of a new EQ server being launched in the months ahead. You can submit your ideas at http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/

Big changes for the legendary MMO, but I think most will agree more players per server is always a good thing.

Personally if they start a new Progression server with either timed lock outs, or flagged ( I.E you have to get lvl 50, kill the three first dragons in classic to open up vellious etc for your account) then i would be willing to play it. If it is a new server like mayong or like the old prog server i wont even bother DL'ing it.