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Personally I don't know what you need to do to get on the american servers from Europe. Hopefully one of our more knowledgeable forum members can advise you on what steps to take.

Also I hope they can help direct you to where you can purchase an american copy of the game if you decide that you like the NA servers. I know it can be tricky for EU customers to get american editions.


Once you do get on the American servers you should be aware that Freedom and Virtue have the highest populations, but with the release of Going Rogue they are currently the hardest to get onto.

Virtue is also the unofficial role playing server.
Pinnacle is known as the drunk server
Victory the unofficial Euro server
Justice the unofficial Aussie server
Freedom the unofficial PvP server

I can't remember the rest off the top of my head



When you are on a trial account I'd like to suggest that you open the search window and add a comment along the lines of

Trial Account please send invite can't respond to tells.

This is because of the trial account limitations that were put into effect to prevent spam abuse by goldfarming companies.

The message will also let the helpful players know they may want to show you the ropes and answer questions. There are a lot of us that look for trials just for that purpose.

Oh and just in case you weren't aware of all the trial restrictions here they are.

Restrictions

Trial Accounts cannot email other players
Trial Accounts may not level past 14
Trial Accounts can only have 50k influence
Trial Accounts may not join global channels
Trial Accounts can only speak in:
/local
/hc (the Help channel)
/team

Trial Accounts cannot invite players to team
Trial Accounts may join teams, but not invite other players
Trial Accounts may not join SuperGroups.
Trial Accounts may not create Mission Architect arcs. They can not interface with the Architect Entertainment Stations. However, they can be invited onto a team that is running MA missions.


I know these seem draconian and annoying but the RMT spam was really bad before they added the restrictions.

It wasn't until July 16, 2008, NCsoft merged the two games' content together; thus a player who only owned City of Heroes could now play City of Villains, and vice versa. Prior to this, a purchase was required to access either game's content.

Prior to that, on September 29, 2006 NCSoft did offered to sell both complete games together in one package when they released Good Vs Evil. Customers had the option of buying either game separately or getting both games in one box for one low price.

Just so you know, while there's nothing wrong with the European servers, they do have a significantly lower population than the American servers, and quite a few less. They have 4 and we have 11.

There are several EU players that have chosen to get an NA account so they can have access to 11 servers and the larger player base. Some I believe have an account on both. So if after playing a while you feel you'd like something a little busier, you can look into starting an NA account. The only downside is that you can't move characters between accounts.

We already have surfing. It's called Power Slide. You get the power when you buy the Collector's Edition of CoH.

Power did you start a new account?

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Nope not a bug, working as intended. The introduction is it's own separate set of windows that introduces the contact and tells you about him. After you read that it's up to you to decide if you want to run his story-arc. If you don't the contact will never clutter up your contact list like so often happens in the old CoH. You just leave. If you do want the missions you have to click on the contact to open up the window and start the story-arc.

As much as I love my own storm, I have to agree with Fulmens that it's not a beginner set. I'd suggest looking at the other electric sets for teaming character and learn the ins and outs of storm on a solo character.

Go back to where you started. If another exit exists, it will appear on your map.

There are no supergroups or bases in Praetoria at this time.

This game doesn't have spells or skills. You should check out the following link and read up on what types of characters you can make.

Paragonwiki

Hey! None of your common sense and rational explanations here buddy. This here be the Internet, and we don't cotton to your kind of babble round here. So take yer explunashuns an git out!

This. I'm hoping we'll see some similar changes made in Paragon City and the Rogue Isles. It would also be nice if it was added to the tailors.

Since the queue feature is only activated during times of excessively high server loads, why would anyone notice it when it is inactive.

You were give 2 contacts to go to at level 4 but when you went to them you just clicked thru their introduction and left without getting a mission from them. Since you didn't get a mission, they won't show up on your contact list. You need to go back to them and start their story arcs.

Edit: Also before posting you could have found this out by reading one of the other threads on the same topic. The Search tool is our friend.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=234796

Nope. Not anti-logic at all. Just an observation on human nature. No matter what the devs do people will complain.

Nah. You keep that code. You deserve it. The way we're being treated isn't NC's fault, it's Gamestops.


On a side note I've noticed we have a better class of consumer than some other games I've played where this same thing happened.

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*Cryptic*
Cough!

I saw people ragequitting and demanding their money back from the game company rather than making an issue of it with Gamestop.

I'm almost proud of the way the people I've seen here are taking it to Gamestop instead of blaming NCSoft.

The options are consistent in Praetoria. Everyone is free to choose to do the solo missions or skip them.

Just like players are free to choose to ignore/participate in

PvP
Cross faction teaming in RWZ/Crim
Task Forces
Zone events
Holiday events
Mission Architect
The Arena
The Market
Crafting Recipes
Badge Hunting

The funniest thing about these complaints about the solo missions is that if they really are teaming with other people they'll be blowing past those missions and never know they had the opportunity to do them. Only the soloists are going to encounter the bulk of the few solo missions, and speaking as someone that did a lot of soloing during the beta the most I saw on any one Praetorian character was 6.

Zek, if you haven't redeemed the code you got yet, you can pm it to me. Oh and I love you and your cats.

12 solo only missions out of 20 levels is no way even remotely close to being mostly solo. Especially since you can skip them.

So your claims are full of crap.

Not only should you have been shouted down, you should have been held down and given pink bellies, atomic wedgies, and wet willies, then finished off with a chocolate swirlie.

Neener neener neener.