Jeff_Kaos

First thanks to everyone who posted, i now have a much clearer picture of CoH's PvP model, such as it is. Since CoH charges so little for character transfer as opposed to most other games i moved my lvl 50 scrapper to Freedom last night and will be looking for a super group that's into at least some PvP. As for trying another game for PvP I've already put one month of game time on this account and while she's not a player my wife likes to design costumes with the character creator, so i'm in for at least a month, maybe all summer depending on how things go on Freedom.

Again, thanks to all for answering, i know this looked like a trollers post but i'm a "need to know, don't care how" sort of person when it comes to gaming. Besides if game forums don't exist for trolls what do they exist for, helping people? (JK, thanks all)

Thanks for the info on the PvP scene and sorry about the wall o' text, it looked ok to me while i was writing it, but i went back and cleaned it up. That's too bad about the lack of PvP action in CoH. I just figured it would be the most popular part of CoH since the setting is super heroes and everything. I intended this post to be in the PvP forum and have reposted it there so please feel free to kill this post MODS.

i accidentally posted this in the new player forum so i'm putting it here too because this is something that's make or break for me right now because as it stands the PvE in this game is way too instanced to hold my attention for too long.

REPOST: I played this game for 4 months over a year ago and i just reopened my sub this weekend as i'm checking out all the old mmo's i've already payed for but haven't played in a while (if anyone wants to know, SWG is worse now than ever before). Back when i was active in CoH i never had the chance to check out the PvP side of the game, i had que'd up for a few arena battles but none ever took place. Same thing happened last night. I que'd up for a whole bunch of fights with multiple characters of almost every level range and i never set foot in a single fight. when i looked on the arena fight setup screen i chose fights that said they would start ASAP. What does ASAP mean? When i was in the army ASAP stood for As Soon As Possible but i'm pretty sure it doesn't mean that in CoH because i think i'm still que'd up for a few fights over 9 hours later.

What i'm wondering is weather i came to the wrong place for my PvP fix? Last night was a SATURDAY night and i couldn't get into a single arena fight, are the arena's cross server and if the aren't why not? Not one of the servers hit more than light pop last night. I hope the open world PvP is better but after last nights arena debacle i'm not holding my breath. Oh yeah, how do i display the time in game? i saw some matches with specific times entered but i couldn't figure out how to tell server time in game.

Sorry for posting this twice but like i said this is something that is important to me and will determine weather or not i'll keep plugging $15 a month into CoH.

I played this game for 4 months over a year ago and i just reopened my sub this weekend as i'm checking out all the old mmo's i've already payed for but haven't played in a while (if anyone wants to know, SWG is worse now than ever before). Back when i was active in CoH i never had the chance to check out the PvP side of the game, i had que'd up for a few arena battles but none ever took place. Same thing happened last night. I que'd up for a whole bunch of fights with multiple characters of almost every level range and i never set foot in a single fight. when i looked on the arena fight setup screen i chose fights that said they would start ASAP. What does ASAP mean? When i was in the army ASAP stood for As Soon As Possible but i'm pretty sure it doesn't mean that in CoH because i think i'm still que'd up for a few fights over 9 hours later.

What i'm wondering is weather i came to the wrong place for my PvP fix? Last night was a SATURDAY night and i couldn't get into a single arena fight, are the arena's cross server and if the aren't why not? Not one of the servers hit more than light pop last night. I hope the open world PvP is better but after last nights arena debacle i'm not holding my breath. Oh yeah, how do i display the time in game? i saw some matches with specific times entered but i couldn't figure out how to tell server time in game.