waiting list/Queue on Spriggan??

Soooo, I switched servers recently from Cerberus - which became very crowded - to the newly founded Spriggan.
I thought I'd be quite happy with the change since I get disconnected a lot (that's another issue - 90006) and have constant queue times/waiting lists to get back in the game.
I figured everyone is playing since Shadowbringers came out and Cerberus is full anyway so that has to be normal AND it was the reason to leave for a new fresh Server.
Now I'm on Spriggan and just as I'm typing this there are 1030 before me?? It started with 1400 ppl in the waiting list ö___ö
Can someone clarify? Never had such a big queue time on Cerberus and I thought Spriggan is supposed to be 'empty'?? So what gives??

Happens once every 10 days or so, a wave of bots gets banned and the queue here shoots up to 1000 for half a day.