Also, if you're not in a guild with some of those friends, you might as well just say goodbye, unless if server names are announced. Guilds will stick together (for the most part), and will do a transfer to the same server as they individually vote on. There may be server-wide discussions on forums, but that's a small fraction. There's public channel and other word-of-mouth methods in game, and that may be what you need in order to see where the rest of your server is going on.

There, that solves the "My non-RP friends" issue, for the most part.


...In addition, everyone else is considering the "Worlds 1,10, 5 and 7 will be most popular" discussion, as well. Deciding that your picking an uncommon number could end up being...common thought.