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Welcome back Nayleen.
Yes this area of the forum is a little dead, but still plenty of action in the game.
Send me a tell when you get online next if looking for an active SG

Welcome to Defiant
Hope to see you in game

Cool Psy.
Post up any nuke runs as I'll need help

Defo up for this, although may struggle getting there before 8pm.
I've a couple of defenders in range

Welcome back Archos
Still plenty going on here on Defiant

Thanks for the update FE. Always good to touch base with how well the SG's are doing.
Great to see lots of active SG's out there, in fact seems busier than normal with many big prestige earners.
We also are always open for new players and have a mixture of themed nights during the week. Our recently started Stalker night has had around 30 stalkers across 3-4 teams doing story arcs and SF's. Has been a laugh surrounding the odd Hero or GM and dropping him in moments with 8 Assassin Strikes in tandom. Have also run a number of SG Mothership Raids without the lag and been hugely successful.

Well said Raz.
Yes, amazing it has been so long already, and for someone to die at such a young age, it was a very sad day. Owen was indeed a great person to have the privilege to play with.
RIP Mighty!!

Welcome back to the game, always good to see players returning again

Sounds like fun, just can't do daytime stuff, so evenings only (weekday/weekend outside of existing SG events).
Let me know when and I'll see if I'm available.

Woot, Robot Rampages return!!!
Good to see you back in the game Ommy, and I look forward to regular teaming again, and ofc more Robot Rampages and Rikti Dropship take-downs too

There are quite a number with invite rights to the Echelon/Evil Echelon SG/VG

Captains / Leaders include :
@Mr Shock, @Phobos-, @Shadow Kitty, @Knightingale, @Neon Vixen, @Smud, @Angel's Death, @Mother Superior

But any player has some invite rights available.
Likewise the list above can invite to our Chat Channel.

Following on what has already been said.
Fundamental to the enjoyment of this game is getting aligned to an active Super Group with regular events. Outside of this you are reliant of hunting a group down by sending tells to various players, or using chat channels like Defiant Events (personally find it easier to get a Task Force on this than a team).
City of Heroes / villains is a great game, and many players you'll find have been playing it for years. There are regular updates to the game, so this should help retain your interest too.
Send me a tell if you're struggling as we run regular stuff both evil and good side (in fact do a themed vill night tonight).

Would be great to see another Hami Raid going.
I'm sure I can nudge some to join up, obviously depending on when and what time. Evenings preferable.

Give me a shout in game tomorrow evening, always happy to invite new players.
We're definately active, both Hero and Villain side, so should cover all your needs.
Have a browse around our forum, you'll see daily stuff posted up by players, so plenty to do

Welcome back to the game SuperMonkey.
Still plenty of activity going on, and worth signing up to the Defiant Events channel for regular TF's. Send me a tell if you need help ofc

Great to see so many active SG/VG's with 9 getting at least 1 million prestige over the last 2 weeks.

FE -
Eaton Rifles and Those Who Never Were are both Hero SG's iirc.
Leathal Legion should be Lethal Legion

I know a large number of players on both Union and Defiant will play solely within their own SG without the requirement to venture out and join random teams. This will affect the ability for others to join in on normal team activity over TF runs generated from channels such as Defiant Events and Sal's Badgehunters. From personal experience, and from leading an active SG, players will log on, get an SG team, or sign up to an SG TF/Trial/Event, and never venture beyond this. I know that without an active SG, many player will drift from the game as it can be a struggle to be involved with doing different events, so would recommend to all players to try to join an SG as game enjoyment can be so much better. Hell, we even do our own Mothership raids from time to time, which can emphasis what additional options you can get from being in an active SG.

Going back to the original debate, its interesting to see that Union population has dropped, as historically this was always busier than Defiant. Always worth having toons on both sides so you have the option to play where the demand and where the fun happens to be.
Server transfers have allowed players to move to their preferred location, and I'm sure, due to altitis, some Union players have moved toons to Defiant, and visa versa.
Personally wouldn't shift to the US for reasons already mentioned and the loss of vet awards and effort spent on existing toons, but fortunately am in a possition to still enjoy activity Defiant side.
I do think Server Transfers should remain open permanently, as this flexibility is great, especially when a TF demands an AT type which you have on another server
Plus we all need more character slots....

Welcome to the game Flow.
Plenty of players still here, and although the population is active more Hero-side, there are still plenty of villains doing their evil stuff.
Best way to find teams is to send requests to players looking for a team, or alternatively join chat channels such as Defiant Events.
Feel free to send me a tell to @Mr Shock if you need help finding a team, or have questions about the game.

I agree that all players will need the ability to:

1. Purchase new slots above the current maximum
2. Be provided with new slots as part of GR

Without this, players would be forced to use other servers outside of where they normally play, and potentially away from players they normally team with.

Clearly limiting the number of purchaseable slots is a means of forcing some players to have multiple accounts, and therefore increasing revenue to NCSoft. But this is also something that may drive some players away from the game as funding multiple accounts is not possible for many.

Tbh it would be a bad move for new slots not to be made available, and I'm sure this has been looked by the powers that be (or at least I would hope so).
And whilst they are about it, SG size increases please. Having to create mutiple SG's just so players can have most of alt's under one SG banner isn't the way it should be. I still haven't seen a valid reason for SG sizes to be so limited as they are. Lets make it 500 at least

Ahh, gratz Karma's, and good work to all the Echelon players, over 2 million across the Echelon and Evil Echelon
Never been so active and had so many events.

Happy Christmas all!!!
Round tums full of Christmas pud hopefully

Nice run guys, smooth and straight forward, plus dc'd seemed to be between mobs for once.
Gratz all round for the Mo achievement

Cool. Looks like a good team. Fingers crossed.

I know from experience (I've done this just a few times...) that DJ has a well built tank (hell my build is based on his). But I'm still finishing the build off (sold a nice purp recipe for 330 mill yesterday which should provide most of the remaining funds I need). I can also throw a Illusion/FF Troller into the mix, which I've used on many Mo runs in the past. Provides some nice team buffage with pets to take some of the agro.
If given the choice, then either the Ill/FF or Fire/Kin, I'll let DJ tank on this occasion.
All my other 50's have the badge.

Going to prep my tank just in case, but I can offer the following:

SS/Inv Tank
Fire/Kin Troller
Spines/WP Scrapper