Trying to find a new and active server!

[LunaFaye]

If your friends have a couple days of time on their hands, you can create characters on gilgamesh currently at 1am - 4am pst and/or right after the daily reset at 8am, sometimes you're lucky at 7:30am.

I would suggest taken advantage of that before 4.0 hits, because after that I don't see a possibility to get on that server unless you pay $18 for transfer, and we have to admit it's one of the most active servers at any time of the day, including any content training/clears/walkthroughs/raid etc.

With that out of the way, let me list a couple of servers that are currently active. Since you have not specified if you're looking for a more mid/hardcore or casual community I am going with servers that are somewhat comparable to gilgamesh.

Same Data Center (if that matters to you): Sargatanas, Balmung, Cactuar
Primal Data Center: Excalibur, Hyperion, Leviathan
JP Data Center's (this might have changed): Chocobo, Tonberry, Bahamut

You might have the same problem as with gilgamesh and a character restriction, however it's not as bad as with gilgamesh. If you are completely looking for none restricted servers try very small populated servers as in Siren, Zalera, Mateus, Faerie, Jenova (aether data center), Lamia, Exodus, Framfrit (primal data center).

I didn't list the EU data center because I've never played there.