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Walking in, taking a look at how many at the tailors, and leaving doesn't cut it for me. In that case you are talking about the specific instance of time that you actually took your snapshot; which does not make sense in relation of this thread (not to me at least).

To elaborate on my personal situation: I have been tinkering with costumes, then doing a mission-or-three; then rolling a new alt, agonising in the character creator over every single power to colour let alone my costume; then getting invited to my sg & setting up trays; followed by switching to a higher level alt to do an ITF/LGTF/STF; then back to another alt to colour more powers. My point being, I have not been sitting at the tailor during my entire game time (because I get frustrated with colour-options-overload). I've spent most of my time editing either in the creator, or on a live alt at the tailor (probably 50% of my time) and the remainder doing TF's or playing my new lowbie creations, and a fair bit of time logging in/out of game.

BTW - I haven't been talking about red side, I have been talking about the entire server (which is what the OP is about).
There are 7 tailors in this server. 3 hero, 3 villain, and 1 in pocket D.
I was talking about all of them (not just red side).

*edit* And the first thing I do after customizing my power/costume, is walk out of the tailor, and start attacking stuff, and ooooh/aaaahing over the colours. Then if I'm on a buffer, I go find players and start buffing them (so I can see what the colours came out like).

And every time I was at the tailors, I've seen a lot of other players in there also, * but then, I have no idea how long they were there for, I was busy editing my characters.

Grumbles. Still not happy :P
Pictures to prove it:


Now gimme my merits for that borked TF already
RaaahhhhrrrwwwrrrgH!!

On the contrary.
A new issue came out. A large chunk of the players are at the tailor, customizing their powers. Including myself. And I have a LOT of alts, each with more than one costume slot.

I have been in /hide on them, as I am getting sick of pestering tells to team, when I am busy playing with colors. And I hate saying no to my friends, and even to people I don't know; which is why I have been in hide.

I don't think I am alone in this case either. I expect a large number of people are currently in hide while they are editing their costumes.

Also I know quite a lot who are playing outside of coh in MIDS, with their new heroes/villain builds; with the recent power proliferation and addition of powers such as [physical perfection]. Seriously now, I'll be spending an hour or so on that trying to fit it on my spines/dark scrapper.

No.

Not everyone wants to be PL'd up.
Some of us enjoy the content at the normal pace, you know, that it was intended for.

And they recently made it easier to go from level 1-20 with an xp boost.
Linky for that here:http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=191169

And quoted:

"To go along with our new changes to sidekicking and exemplaring, we've made some adjustments to the experience awarded from minions, lieutenants and bosses in the level 5 to 24 range. In short these enemies are on average receiving a 20% experience and influence increase. This will slightly speed up the pace at which heroes and villains advance through the 5 to 24 range"

This.
You logged in after the servers JUST came back up after maintenance.
So of course there aren't going to be many in game.
(You know, maintenance. That period of time, where, NOBODY can actually log into the game, because, support are actually doing helpful stuff to the servers. Hence noone being on line. And the subsequent low numbers after it is re-opened.)

Where are you getting these "numbers" from? Or did you just make that up?

Depends on what time you play.
On weekends, I always see 2 yellow dots (during US prime-time).
Weekdays they are always green for me. Always have been.

BTW, just because the dot is green, does NOT mean the server is empty.
I can't remember the exact figures. But several years ago, they did INCREASE the server loads, so what used to be a yellow dot back then, will now show as a green dot with the SAME number of players.

I almost wish they had introduced 3 more dots (totalling 6) *and left the colors based per exact numbers as the OLD system* so players would stop screaming DOOOOOM when they see a green dot for the server load.

Heck even state the exact number instead of colored dots, including in that number, the total players in hide.

*edited for clarity

Err good point! *makes note to drink more coffee before linking, or, thinking*
Thanks for the pickup Hellguard
I'm still wondering what exactly they 'patched', still no patch notes

Hiya Turg!
Leo did send a petition to support for the entire team.
They replied with the TF has been fixed in the latest patch.
So in short, we never got the badge, nor the merits. I'm rather pissed off about that.

*wonders if this is why the servers were just taken down for emergency maintenance* *i.e. maintenance now, at 2pm US Eastern time....*

Yep, I was on the same team as Leo. I was on my controller (purple pleione).
I was also madly pawing at my screen, trying to stop the mapserver of doom.

I wholly approve of the changes.

AE will finally get used for the purpose it was INTENDED for. I just hope they purge all the stupid maniac/boss farms from it one day. Then I will be able to find some half decent virtual content.

I noticed Peregrine Island had 2 instances running

Also players have been amassed at the various tailors, tinkering.
And some like me, were busy getting a couple of the new master TF badges.

Don't forget it IS a weekday, a large chunk of players are either at work, or in school.

Happy i16 folks, I'm loving it.

I was on team with Master-Blade, and confirm this happening.
We had killed reischman and 3 of the AVs. Had the malta AV (Gryphalcon or w/e his name is) down to 90hitpoints, then, WHAM! Mapserver. Nooooo! Logged back in, and we are all on team, yet, no TF is set. No merits, and, no bloody badge. grrrrr. Not happy!

I'm betting a box of choc-chip cookies that this is i16
Why? Firstly they started maintenance an hour early. Second, after I logged out, and ran the client; the client just downloaded and applied a brand new patch and lastly, the voices in my head told me so. They are also telling me to eat the cookies...

*gives zombie man eleventy billion rep*
Muah hahhahhahhah.

Oh and great to-do list, good ideas on the costumes slots also!
:-)

LMFAO
Lol @ Darth Gokuverine. I swear I've seen something like several of these abominations running about on Freedom.

Thanks for making me laugh :-)

Wait... what?
I must know the location of these so I can check them out!
Does anyone have the /loc numbers for these?

You mean something like this?

Awesome!
I was beginning to think the only way I'd ever get the combat logs was to finally get a decent pvp toon then earn the gladiator to arena heal farm.
This new change means I will get the robo surgery, and be 80% done towards combat logs! *happy dance*