Radubadu

My thoughts are that you shouldn't have bothered posting this. But since you did...

I play almost exclusively on Virtue but whenever I go to another server (I have a couple rarely played toons on Victory which is VERY low pop) I have little issue finding a team.

Have you tried forming your own team? Did you do anything more than say in broadcast (random AT) lft?

Also, one other question that I don't think has been asked yet (yes I purposely repeated some that have already been pointed out for reiteration) what AT do you claim not be able to get a team on and what other MMOs have you played? I ask that because a lot of people coming from a "standard" MMO expect that as a tank or support class they should be able to find a team more often because in WoW for example 90% of the time a team of pure dps spends 20-30 minutes looking for a tank or healer where as here you can run with a team of all blasters if you choose. There is no ideal team make up... there is no lack of any specific AT. Not sure if that applies here but I bet that's what a lot of people do.

As far as merging the servers, let me just repeat what's already been said.

No.

I play on Virtue because I like a higher pop. Some people play on Victory because they like a lower pop. It took me forever to convince my gf that playing with more people was fun but she still prefers a lower pop and would have left all her toons on Victory if I hadn't been so persistent.

Also, as was also stated previously, I would LOVE to see the specifics on this claim of dwindling numbers... especially when I see at least one post daily from someone who includes the phrase "returning player" or "new to the game" and as with any MMO the people on the forums only represent those that actually look at them not everyone playing.

While I can appreciate the additional effort it would take they've obviously done it before and from all that's been posted it obviously needs to be done again, at least according to anyone with experience in the power set. I have yet to see a post that says "TA/ is fine as is". Even the people that enjoy it say that they do so in spite of it's flaws.

You SOB! lol I was all excited when I saw this thread... then I opened it.

You could've at least waited til April 1st :P

A couple things in your post that I'd like to comment on... don't take this as me giving you crap... just some observations...

When you say log out and play a better game as a response to something unexpected that made your mission not go as planned I have to ask... you do realize that this is essentially a comic book game and that comic books (typically) are not predictable right? What keeps people reading them is the twists in the story, the epic battles and the sometimes failures so that their favorite hero can get back up the next issue and pound the crap out of whatever baddie made it so. If Wolverine (using the most popular one I could think of) won EVERY fight with Sabretooth hands down, hadn't had his adamantium taken away and every issue was just him destroying everything in his path (which is awesome when it happens) it would be the most boring comic ever.

Your second paragraph as a whole is indicative that you probably stopped having fun with this game a long time ago. "Messing with the places you need to work in"? It's a game, mission after mission of kill all the baddies, have an easy time at it and move to the next mission is repetitive and predictable. I honestly don't mind it so much but I've only been playing for 7 months, I'm sure that once I hit that point where doing that it's boring I'll have to stop playing you might want to do the same or even just take a break especially if running into an AV in a safeguard mission is an "inconvience".

I don't mean that to have the tone of "why don't you just go play another game then if it's so bad here?" I just know that if I was at that point (which I was with WoW which is why I'm here) that I logged in and it felt tedious I'd quit or take a break.

Couldn't agree with this more... while I love the mostly instanced portion of CoH the fact that there is very little excitement outside of that is kinda disheartening. At the risk of gettin flamed for continuing to compare the two... one of things I enjoyed about WoW was the fact that at any given point the city you were in might get raided by the opposing faction causing an influx of high lvl toons to get there and have a small war.

Knowing that few people play CoX for pvp (compared to those that pve) it wouldn't necessarily have to be other players... what about Atlas park or Steel Canyon getting randomly overrun by AVs and elite bosses?

I've had one "holy crap that was awesome" moment in terms of being taken by surprise while playing CoX (not counting the initial cool factor when picking ATs and powersets etc) and it was during a safeguard I was doing with my tank and Lord Recluse showed up... it took about 20 minutes for my team to take him down but it was awesome. I would love to have stuff like that happen more often... but not in instances.

Again I'm sorry for the comparisons to WoW. Please understand that I don't think either game is anywhere near perfect and even if I did that's a matter of perspective and after playing it for 4 years I'm obviously going to make comparisons but please don't take that as me saying it's better. Honestly I think Blizzard could learn quite a bit from CoX... sadly they're too busy appealing to the brainless masses that are attraced to WoW's pick up and play qualities.

The other comparison I find myself making is from my time in FFXI... while it's gameplay is incredibly dated (that's an understatement) there was something about knowing that while traveling to where I might be headed I might run into a mob that could wipe the floor with me. Even level mobs would destroy you in that game regardless of what class you were (except maybe beastmasters).

I guess what I'm getting at is that in every MMO I've played (even my EXTREMELY brief time in Aion) there was SOMETHING that kept you slightly on edge. In CoX there are no mobs that can kill you in the streets that you can't get away from or see in plenty of time to avoid. There's no eminent danger.

Please keep the "If you liked it so much in WoW, FFXI or Aion better go play those games" to yourself if you're considering such a post. I LOVE this game... but nobody can say that there isn't at least one thing they'd like to see changed and for me it's this.

Edit: just realized how long this is... for those thinking TLDR... in short I don't think the game is too repetative, I think it's too predictable.

Agreed, I just made a spines/fire scrapper and named him Fever Spike a couple weeks ago. I thought for sure the name would be taken, and I was surprised.

I agree that the stories should be read, in both games. I think that this again boils down to setting. WoW's stories are intriguing enough if you enjoy that setting... the problem is that WoW caters more to the lvl as quickly as possible to get to endgame crowd who aren't going to bother with reading why they're doing a chain quest... they just know it's going to get them good xp and maybe a cool item in the process.

I would ask what recent MMOs they've played for extended periods of time.

Coming from WoW I can say that the initial adjustment was tough for me and i kinda thought the same thing and honestly still do, it just so happens that I'd had my fill of WoW.

I hate to draw comparison because they're so different but one of those differences stands out when talking about this. All of the instances that can be run in WoW are set... when you do Shadowfang Keep (one of the early ones) it's the same every time you enter it. However... each one is entirely different from the rest. In CoX most maps repeat and do so often with the same enemy types and only slightly different objectives with different text telling you what to do. Go to this cave and defeat all of the enemies inside vs go to this cave and take out this specific enemy, his crew and maybe find a glowie.

They're right to a point that CoX is repetative... I would just point out as has already been stated that ALL MMOs are. Another part of the problem could be the setting. Most MMOs currently out there are sci-fi/fantasy in nature. So adjusting to a city of all superheroes causes you to have to put effort into suspending a different set of beliefs as opposed to the ones that already are because of how many times it's been done... if that makes sense.

Isn't that what a Thesaurus is for, finding words that mean the same thing?

This I agree with... I think WoW's addons are a bit excessive but they're useful if you want to take the time to set them up.

One in particular I was thinking about I would love to see in CoX. I would love it if when on my WP/SS tanker if I could have a timer showing me the 10 seconds that my attacks were worthless because of the rage crash so I didn't use end on knockout blow or foot stomp.

So much for my thought that all RPers were nice.

I don't care for Freedom.

I'll admit RPing on a team where NOBODY else is RPing may feel awkward and if that's the case for you then don't, it's a personal choice.

Crystal meth is an illegal drug that does horrible things to your body, RPing is something you're supposed to do for fun and is typically encouraged on Virtue. Nice analogy, idiot. Sorry I prefer direct insults over sarcasm when someone's being so outwardly rude.

I assume you consider yourself to be in the 25% that doesn't suck at it? Yay for you! You're awesome in a fictional world but are a complete @$$hat in real life when you have the ability to hide beyind the anonymity that the internet provides. If you can't be entertained by people that are genuinely enjoying themselves then maybe you need to get off your high horse and relax a bit.

I think the people that fall into the "lolRP" group are jealous of the imagination or oblivious to their own lack of it. I'm jealous myself I just deal with it by observing the environment those that do RP create. Admittedly, I do think some take it too far (ERP... really? you obviously have access to the internet... use it!) but to each their own.

I don't know that I've ever found myself on an all RP team before but even if I'm in the minority I never really feel left out as I'm usually fairly quiet on teams anyway. If I'm tanking it starts with "rdy?" after everyone gives the appropriate response I charge in full bore until we're done lol. If I'm blasting I wait for the tank to charge in... then I blow things up lol.

While I agree with this for the most part I do feel it necessary to play devil's advocate a bit. What if farming doesn't appeal to you?

One of many parts of WoW (sorry for those that hate on it) that I liked was that there were TONS of ways you could make money and despite what some have said here it didn't take much effort. Yes it would take more than a couple hours worth of play to make large sums but to me this never felt like a grind... I could usually make 2K in a couple hours with one of my toons with minimal effort the only thing that took a long time was waiting for it to sell... so those that found it difficult merely lacked patience.

I liked gathering and crafting... it was a way to lose yourself in another part of the game.

This... and I play regularaly on both my desktop and laptop. My desktop being far superior the load times are minimal whereas my laptop leaves me time to get up and take a bio break, make a sammich and play a game of bejeweled blitz on facebook.