Knightslayer

Originally Posted by Sunstormer

I played tankers for over 3 years on EU, however after mission architect got released my entire SG just gave up. No one wanted to play city of farmers and were happy running regular missions and not farming 1-50 in a couple of hours.

Anyway 1 by 1 every single player dropped out of the SG simply because they had enough trying to get into teams that werent farming other than when SG members were online. Over the space of two months we went from a full, populated SG that would rival a lot of the SG's on Freedom, down to two members active daily. The final player said he was off to American servers in an attempt to get more teams and at the time EU was being shafted from every angle, being ignored in forums, mid day server downtime etc. All PvP had also died due to i13 as well. Generally life seemed better over at America.

I stayed on EU for another month or so, then the population declined even further and a lot more AE noobs started showing up in every single team I was in, asking very stupid questions and generally making everyones life hell. Most of them refused to even move from the door because thats all they did in farm missions.

I finally had enough, I stopped subbing my account and took a few months out until I saw an advert for Going Rogue somewhere. It peaked my interest but rather than resub my account, I made a trial on EU. I was literally disgusted to find at 5:30pm that theres were 96 people not hidden on heroes and 1 villain not hidden (me). So I made a trial account in America, deciding EU wasnt worth it and went to Freedumb. By this time it was about 6pm gmt and there were 500 ish heroes online 200ish villains.

I decided I would give America a shot.

Within ten minutes of me making an account on Freedumb I was invited to AE teams, which i said no thanks because I wanted in on a sewer team. However 25 minutes in I got nothing so rather annoyed with this I went over to Virtue. Within two minutes of making a charecter there, I was invited to a sewer team. However we got to the second mob and half the team was just standing still, playing a tank I know this only too well at this level so I pressed f7 to shout 'Ready!' and no one replies. I said 'You guys there?' then I get a message from the team leader saying 'Just *bleep*ing tank you noob', I was a little annoyed but I went against my judgement and ran into a mob, needless to say the team still stayed still appart from the one guy who was very rude. I got killed, and the other guy ran, the rest of the team were woken up then it seemed and they started attacking.

Figuring this sucked I quit team to search for another. Then I get 3 messages from random players in the team saying things like I should kill myself etc. Which I just found pathetic and blocked them, anyway after this incident I started asking on broadcast for another team and someone asked what happened with last one so I explained and 7 or 8 people all laughed and told me to 'QQ more *bleep* noobs' and general crap like that.

Having enough of that, I went to try Freedumb villains, since I figured I hadnt played villains in a long time since EU was dead. Within minutes of being on vills I got a regular team invite and was offered into chronos which i accepted. I got to about level 20 with nothing but farms being advertised on SG chat so I ended up quitting. I was very very close to leaving the game completley when I got an invite from Adrian Maxwell into The Ignios Institute of Higher Learning.

This turned out to be a godsend. They actually run regular missions and only recruit non noobs because there recruited from teams with an ignios officer in who sees there decent players. Yes we dont have the numbers of Chronos but judging by the community Im damn happy about that fact. Within a month I got promoted to Officer due to me helping out, I got my own room in the SG base and we have weekly officer meetings to discuss SG events. We even have a PvP night.

Although I really do miss the old EU community, its far from what it was and I cant see me ever going back. I would have prefered old EU simply because theres a lot more idiots in America and a lot more people who just want to talk crap about things they know nothing about, just for the sake of being included in conversation.

However I really cant see any amount of marketing bringing EU back from the dead now, theres not enough players to interest new players to begin with. Keeping the server list seperate was a stupid idea from day 1, this was always going to happen. As long as people are willing to pay for an American subscription when there from the EU, NCSoft will not do anything about it since there making twice the money from people buying the game twice, particularly if they have all the costume addons and stuff too.

I really feel for you guys still on EU, the devs wonderfix of making it easier to get teams really doesnt seem like its going to help at all since if you go into a zone and its empty it isnt going to keep players there for long anyway.

If anything it will have the opposite effect if its cross server teams since most will say there from Freedom and new players will think theres a massive population there so why not move?

Anyway I just read my post... I think I wrote an essay I apologise didnt realise I wrote so much but the decline of EU was something that greatly saddened me. Its also the reason I wish they would kill AE farming in the US but no one seems to give a damn here either which is sad.

Also my old charecters names were Protection (my main tanker for a long time) Predatoric (Another tanker) Starcrash (PB) and Commander Psyche (Psy/Psy blaster). I had many others, mainly level 50 tanks but my mind goes blank now its been that long