Guillermo

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That would be the Original creator who are now the direct competition so it would be most beneficial for them if CoH were spectacularly Fail just before the release of there new game you mean?

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dammit i was gona stop replying to these wasn't i

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Why would they want that? CoX hardly poses a threat to them at all.

But more importantly, Champions Online is a completely different game. Different approach.
Not to mention it has a completely different look and feel compaired to CoX.

In fact I hate the look and feel of CO and I am absolutely not interested in playing it.

DC Universe Online is SOE. Not much need to be said about that one.
It's completely dumbed down so they can release it for the PS3 as well and by the looks of it, it will also be MicroTransaction based....as that's what The Smed want's his future games to be heading at.

So at this moment, all 3 hero games are hardly posing a threat to eachother, because they are marketing 3 complete different audiences.

Cheers

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8)How much is Cryptic paying you to make these DOOM™ threads?

Reported thread for lock/deletion, because the best way of encouraging new players to stick around is to have lots of DOOM™ threads in the general discussion board.

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Are you serious? As I'm flabergasted by your stupid comment on me being paid by the original creator of this game to burn it down! Righto whatever!

Cheers

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more RP going on

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What liar told you that? Union always had the better roleplaying environment.

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I don't think you got anything on there that can beat our Golden Girl!

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Not only beat, but bludgeoned, tied, gagged and tossed in the river.

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Waits for Golden Girl to show up *takes out popcorn and beer*

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What liar told you that? Union always had the better roleplaying environment.

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I don't think you got anything on there that can beat our Golden Girl!

Our mains are indeed on Defiant as back then it was supposed to have the better community (more RP going on etc. Wich was indeed the case till a year ago when lots of people were still playing).

As I play a lot more then my gf and with the new Level pact system now in place. We might reroll anew on Union and try there.

We are still thinking about it. With now christmas coming up, we are very busy (now I live in Norway I notice it's quite a big family happening the coming days preventing us from playing hehe).

But we tried rerolling on Union before the summer this year and didn't really notice any difference at all and so decided back then to stick with Defiant.

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They don't seem to care that almost every new player drops the game in a short while due to sheer boredom, because there is hardly anyone around anymore in the lower level zones.

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Proof please, or is it just hyperbole? I see plenty of lower level character around, and I play plenty of lower level characters. I don't have any problems getting a PuG when I feel like it, and there's usually loads of people around.

One thing I've noticed is that the American practice of doing Sewer runs seems to have taken off lately. Perhaps you can't find anyone in Atlas because they're all knee deep in poo?

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Around what time might that be? As on Defiant the chats are dead silent most of the time.

It's been a loooong time since I have seen PuG requests in chat.

In fact it has become very rare, because there are NOT plenty of low level characters around.

Maybe if you are in one of the few large Super Groups it's easier. I don't know.

But for a new player, not interested to be forced to join a large Supergroup, it's pretty hard to find other players at this time.

EDIT: And it's not fun for a new player to join a bunch of level20's in a Task Force with side kicking zerging through the levels like a maniac.

You don't learn to play your class properly and you miss out a great deal of content.

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It's about time this was looked at.


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They've looked at it, and they've made an official posting about it. Game population IS clearly more than good enough to sustain the servers, or the servers WOULD be merged. NC have shown they're more than willing to cut losses (Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa are good examples), and they even closed down the Korean CoH due to poor number; so the simple fact that they have stated there are no plans to merge should tell you that there is no NEED to merge.

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and yet everyweek someone new comes in here and asks the question.

No one new ever comes in here saying "lets keep the servers" it the same people who want to keep them that keep chanting "there is no server population problem". And its these same people who will end up being the death of the game.

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It's because those people have already level50 characters and have gone through all the content already and enjoyed it when there was a sustainable playerbase through all the zones.

They don't seem to care that almost every new player drops the game in a short while due to sheer boredom, because there is hardly anyone around anymore in the lower level zones.

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Not to disagree with your general points RW:

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Any name like that which is older than 90 days is freed up by automated scripts and can be reused. You'd know that if you read announcements more often.

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Is that automatic now? I thought they ran that script manually...once?

Also, since old accounts are regualarly reactivated when new issues hit, wouldn't that screw things up?

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It doesn't.

Me and my gf have been away for about 6 months and recently started playing again with the announcement of i13 and i14.

All our characters were still intact and there.

So it might be that if there is an automated 90day script running it will be for trial accounts only. Wich would make actual sense.

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Yes both me and my gf have together several toons of around level3-5ish especially on Union (when we last time tried to see if that server was more active).

Even those are still there.

Imho. I have yet to see a Dev risking in deleting characters on Retail accounts.

So I am pretty sure this purging script is for Trial accounts only.

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Not to disagree with your general points RW:

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Any name like that which is older than 90 days is freed up by automated scripts and can be reused. You'd know that if you read announcements more often.

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Is that automatic now? I thought they ran that script manually...once?

Also, since old accounts are regualarly reactivated when new issues hit, wouldn't that screw things up?

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It doesn't.

Me and my gf have been away for about 6 months and recently started playing again with the announcement of i13 and i14.

All our characters were still intact and there.

So it might be that if there is an automated 90day script running it will be for trial accounts only. Wich would make actual sense.

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I personally think that the risk of losing your names and such is not that big, but it will happen to some people.

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Well, Shadowe there has a 50/50 chance of his name going. I happen to know several of mine won't since I own them on both servers, but I also know that if you go looking for a name these days, chances are it's taken, so I think it's actually quite likely that some people will lose out in a server merge.

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That's why the best method would be to open up a NEW third server and open active transfers from both server to this new one.

Then the active players have an equal chance to tranfer their chars to this NEW server and keep their names.

That so many names are taken on this server, is because there are so many low level characters from players and trial players long gone and not coming back.

With a merger this way you leave a ton of unused non played characters behind and so basically free up a ton of names wich can be used again!

So while some people are afraid to have a chance to lose their name, comes also a great positive of being able to use a name you always wanted to use, but was already taken.

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Also, as far as I understand, Supergroups -don't- move with you when you transfer, even if you're the leader.

Our guild on WoW recently moved from an RP-PVP to an RP-PVE server. So not only did we have to go to all the trouble of getting people to sign our guild charter and redoing our tabbards, the real gall came when we had to start rebuying our bank tabs, especially at a level when we're close to getting our flying mounts.

Now, imagine losing millions in prestige, crafted base items, and hard work put into bases itself? I've only recently just gotten my base looking great, if someone said "Hey, we're merging the servers, you'll lose your SG and your base." I'd be likely to say "Okay, that's 17.99 less I have to pay every two months."

A fair deal of people do -not- like losing progress, be that in characters, items, base of operation and so forth. When you add in the effort some people go to and get attached to their names and such...

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That's because Blizzard is lazy and stupid.

Mythic/GOA actually did transfers guilds, with all their XP and Renown intact with the recent transfers.

So it is possible.

And I know that SOE did it as well with EverQuest 2 couple years ago.

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Go away?

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Yes telling people that want a bigger better community to go away is sertainly the way to keep CoX going in Europe.

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This has been argued about every week for the last six months. You pretty obviously are not a member of the forum community, or you would know that.

To turn up, having ignored this community, and start going on about how it's such a great idea to merge the servers and it would promote a better community is, frankly very rude.

So, go back to playing the game with your girlfriend. Enjoy it. Have fun. Stop telling people things they have discussed over and over again.

Or, you could actually join 'the community' and then you would know what was happening in the game.

Your choice, but this thread... is exactly what we expect from Friday Posters. (And that isn't a good thing, in case you were wondering.)

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How am I rude?

Me and my gf pay our montly sub just like you or anyone else mind you!

I happen to have an account since 2005. My gf since 2007.

You do know that the majority of players don't read forums, yet alone even post in them?

I might have hardly ever posted in here, because I am more active on regular gaming forums and never spend much time on official game forums.
Not to mention that I don't post in forums much at all, as I am busy enough with other things.

Not everyone are hardcore forum maniacs posting hundreds of posts a day mind you.

And that I happen to be posting on a friday today, is more like a convinience for me as it's very quiet today at my job, so I have the time to read around and post.

During evenings I rather spend my time playing games, then browsing and posting on forums.

And that this subject according to you, seems to be discussed each week for the past 6 months, should be a strong signal that appearently plenty of people feel the same way as me and my gf do.

Cheers

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Also, people who have characters on each server. Imagine someone who has all their slots filled out, there's no way for them to get 48 characters (Or if they have brought character transfers, more) on one server, so they'll lose out.

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Well, in the end it might indeed come with some sacrifices.

But what do you rather want?

2 low populated servers, just so you can create more ALT's.

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1 good populated server, but sacrifice on available character slots.

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I really miss the good old days seeing people running around everywhere, in every zone. Easy to form a group on the fly. RP events going on regular basis.

Paragon City was so alive and kicking back then, compaired to the mere shadow of a ghost town it is now.

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If I lost my character and SG names, I'd leave. If they can't come up with a decent way round the naming and base and group issues, then no thanks to a server merge.

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That's always the challenge with Server Merges.

Best way is always to give the characters and guilds (this case supergroups) a free renaming token to their account for the characters affected with conflicting names.

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Go away?

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Yes telling people that want a bigger better community to go away is sertainly the way to keep CoX going in Europe.

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Told you to wait till Friday Phantoms.

Please see here Guillermo:

http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showfl...e=0#Post1289887

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Aggh didn't see that topic

Shame they rather let 2 servers die out, rather then merging them into one and keep it alive and having a chance to become even more active.

Greetings,

I have been playing CoX off and on the past years together with my gf.

It's no secret that between the issue releases the populations are ....welll ....a bit low on both servers.

What I don't understand is. Why not merge Defiant and Union into one server.

One English Server = One, lot more active, English community!

It would be nice to see all the various zones more active again.

And it will be more fun for new people who join or people rolling ALT's to have an easier time to level up and actually see people around.

Joining high level Task Forces aren't exactly fun. You powerlevel like crazy through side kicking and so missing out on a lot of fun content.

As at this moment it's pretty much the only group thing going on mostly. Higher level task forces zerging through instances.

I think it would be better for the long run and might keep players subscribed longer, when you have just one English Server that is a lot more active then the two we have now.

Me and my gf really enjoy CoX, especially my gf. But we just kept getting bored after a short while, because there aren't many players around most days ....making the world feel a bit empty and less immersive.
Not to mention that the chat channels are really dead silent.

Cheers

Sorry for maybe my utterly stupidiness as I have never been able to read about it.

But what are these trials you people talk about? Are these kind of Trial Missions you need to complete to be able to achieve access to the particular zone??
Something similar to the access quests in WoW.

Sorry again if this is a stupid question.

Greetings fellow Heroes,

Mountain Club is a SuperGroup with the motto: "Having Fun without any strain..."

Meaning:

-No obligations
-No forced playing times
-No forcing you to do whatsoever

We are looking for older, mature players (like we are) who don't see CoH as a 24/7 job. who enjoy the game on a healthy level. Doing some missions now and then. Collect some Rep. Inf. for the SuperGroup now and then when you want to, so we can work on our base, etc.

So all in all... this SuperGroup is about having fun together and help eachother progress through the game, without any dedicated commitments whatsoever!

You can contact me ingame under either:

Johnny Mountain

or

Mr Nature

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See you ingame