Well the server has been down for about 10 minutes now so it's a good time to update...
I was able to log in at 2:10am CST and wow it was crowded. There were several hundred people all running around in an area you would usually see a couple dozen at the most. This was the human fighter starting area on the Bartz server. It was like attack of the clones. Hundreds of fighters attacking little keltirs(wild dog creatures). The bad part was there wasn't enough keltirs to go around. I ended up running over to the human mage starting area and that was only slightly less crowded. I ended up hunting the keltirs till level 4. Then the server crashed for the first time at 4:15am. I was level 5 by this time and hunting wolves. It was only down for about 2 minutes and it was great when I got back in. There was hardly anyone there compared to before. Granted it was still crowded, just a lot less crowded. Then I managed to get to level 6 at 4:22 but then the server crashed again at 4:33. I'm still waiting to get back in...