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The nastiness from other servers in this thread fails epicly.
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No it really doesn't. There's no sympathy for most of of you folks because you simply don't deserve any. All of the big complainers I've seen have forum reg dates no later than 2005. That means most of you have played through every other 2x weekend and most of the big events that's happened since release. If you couldn't see the writing on the wall it's because you shut your eyes to it.
I saw the writing on the wall after the last 2x weekend. Freedom's been my home since before I1, but I wasn't going to play through that mess again. It just wasn't fun. So I decided to make all of my new toons on Justice. Most of my coalition has toons there as well now, and we're having a grand old time this weekend. All of you -- or near enough all to make no difference -- had this same opportunity. You could have paid to have your characters transferred to another server, or you could have done what I did and just started rolling new toons on a different one.
All of my high-level heroes are still on Freedom, and they'll probably stay there. I'm not spending money to move them -- but I don't feel the dev's owe me free transfers either. I rolled most of those toons before I1, but even then I knew what I was getting into. I've played other MMOs, I know what high-pop servers are like. If you're being honest with yourselves, I'd bet most of you did too.
And for the PvPers -- you were forewarned just like the rest of us. Not too long ago there was a discussion to choose an official unofficial live PvP server. It was pointed out several times that allowing Freedom to be the de facto PvP server would mean exactly what it has this weekend. I remember at least one of you participating in that discussion. How some of you can expect sympathy now just boggles my mind.
The only bone I'm willing to throw any of you is that they should have had a queue mechanism up for this event so that folks who want to stand in line to play on Freedom can. That's the only complaint I've seen that comes close to being legitimate in this entire thread or deserving of sympathy.
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The nastiness from other servers in this thread fails epicly.
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No it really doesn't. There's no sympathy for most of of you folks because you simply don't deserve any. All of the big complainers I've seen have forum reg dates no later than 2005. That means most of you have played through every other 2x weekend and most of the big events that's happened since release. If you couldn't see the writing on the wall it's because you shut your eyes to it.
I saw the writing on the wall after the last 2x weekend. Freedom's been my home since before I1, but I wasn't going to play through that mess again. It just wasn't fun. So I decided to make all of my new toons on Justice. Most of my coalition has toons there as well now, and we're having a grand old time this weekend. All of you -- or near enough all to make no difference -- had this same opportunity. You could have paid to have your characters transferred to another server, or you could have done what I did and just started rolling new toons on a different one.
All of my high-level heroes are still on Freedom, and they'll probably stay there. I'm not spending money to move them -- but I don't feel the dev's owe me free transfers either. I rolled most of those toons before I1, but even then I knew what I was getting into. I've played other MMOs, I know what high-pop servers are like. If you're being honest with yourselves, I'd bet most of you did too.
And for the PvPers -- you were forewarned just like the rest of us. Not too long ago there was a discussion to choose an official unofficial live PvP server. It was pointed out several times that allowing Freedom to be the de facto PvP server would mean exactly what it has this weekend. I remember at least one of you participating in that discussion. How some of you can expect sympathy now just boggles my mind.
The only bone I'm willing to throw any of you is that they should have had a queue mechanism up for this event so that folks who want to stand in line to play on Freedom can. That's the only complaint I've seen that comes close to being legitimate in this entire thread or deserving of sympathy.
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I agree with everything said in this post, I just would have said it with a bit less venom.
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Hmm, could be just me, but I havent had problems logging into Freedom except a few times and eventually got on. With 2 gigs of Ram and running 2 accounts I'm doing just fine.
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I'm surprised you haven't had a mob at your door with torches and pitchforks... or Lady_Athyna aiming the orbital laser at the roof of your house...
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I would but I'm checking on some bids at the Black Market right now. Should I pencil in the mass zapping for Monday?
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The nastiness from other servers in this thread fails epicly.
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No it really doesn't. There's no sympathy for most of of you folks because you simply don't deserve any. All of the big complainers I've seen have forum reg dates no later than 2005. That means most of you have played through every other 2x weekend and most of the big events that's happened since release. If you couldn't see the writing on the wall it's because you shut your eyes to it.
I saw the writing on the wall after the last 2x weekend. Freedom's been my home since before I1, but I wasn't going to play through that mess again. It just wasn't fun. So I decided to make all of my new toons on Justice. Most of my coalition has toons there as well now, and we're having a grand old time this weekend. All of you -- or near enough all to make no difference -- had this same opportunity. You could have paid to have your characters transferred to another server, or you could have done what I did and just started rolling new toons on a different one.
All of my high-level heroes are still on Freedom, and they'll probably stay there. I'm not spending money to move them -- but I don't feel the dev's owe me free transfers either. I rolled most of those toons before I1, but even then I knew what I was getting into. I've played other MMOs, I know what high-pop servers are like. If you're being honest with yourselves, I'd bet most of you did too.
And for the PvPers -- you were forewarned just like the rest of us. Not too long ago there was a discussion to choose an official unofficial live PvP server. It was pointed out several times that allowing Freedom to be the de facto PvP server would mean exactly what it has this weekend. I remember at least one of you participating in that discussion. How some of you can expect sympathy now just boggles my mind.
The only bone I'm willing to throw any of you is that they should have had a queue mechanism up for this event so that folks who want to stand in line to play on Freedom can. That's the only complaint I've seen that comes close to being legitimate in this entire thread or deserving of sympathy.
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ummmm what can i say but ROFLMAO@U
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I agree with everything said in this post, I just would have said it with a bit less venom.
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I'm more flabbergasted then venomous. I've been watching these threads since Lighthouse announced they could be gating Freedom or Virtue if the load became too high, and I honestly cannot fathom where a lot of these folks are coming from.
Blaming things on RMTers or their customers -- frankly, I'd eat my hat if anyone could present a compelling argument that more than 1% of 1% of the folks playing on Freedom are in that crowd. Blaming the devs for keeping the server playable simply because they can't personally play at the moment on the server they want to. I can't wrap my head around this attitude, not when most of the people espousing it have as much or more history with this game than I do.
I have been trying to play for 4 hours now , checking every 30 min or so, this is outrageous.freedom should get its own double xp weekend, since this one has been ruined for me and my friends.
checking every 30 minutes isn't going to help. you have to keep checking back and forth and a spot will open
clients decide to sit in the problem and point fingers at one another rather than rally behind a plausible solution ~ poor problem solving, poor risk management
the solution is relatively obvious, the complaining apparently inevitable. it is a shame that CoH decision makers opted for server upgrades as opposed to scalable but that is a "follow the money trail" choice likely.
be constructive please ~ we can all act like 12 year olds. we cant all bring solutions. try harder please.
thanks!
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Maybe all you haters should go visit Virtue.
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Woot! Infinity is still up! It's just a damn shame I'm still at work and can't play anyway. Oh well, 1 hour to go!
Happy bday tigaligo
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know how you solve it? Take the last 500 peeps who joined the server with new toons and move them to another, after that do it again if you have to. I been here since inception on the same server so is unfair that i get screwed.
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Maybe it's time you made room for new blood?
And who gave you the impression that life is fair?
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know how you solve it? Take the last 500 peeps who joined the server with new toons and move them to another, after that do it again if you have to. I been here since inception on the same server so is unfair that i get screwed.
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Maybe it's time you made room for new blood?
And who gave you the impression that life is fair?
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A shame you consider CoX life...
You'd be surprised how many people actually do.
MMOs are evil.
Blah blah My coalition blah blah Justice.
Well not everyone has extreme cases of Idiotic Altitius like yoru Coalition does.
ADD isn't something to be celebrated.
When something good happens to me, I can never enjoy it....
I am always too busy looking for the inevitable punchline...
BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE!
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Lost Creation, Why not use your RO name instead huh?
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Not sure what you mean. Can't have a space in a forum name, but I have one in my global. And I do play with RO groups -- mostly on Justice, though I do Freedom and Virtue when I'm home for a SG night.
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I have been trying to play for 4 hours now , checking every 30 min or so, this is outrageous.freedom should get its own double xp weekend, since this one has been ruined for me and my friends.
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And what makes you think the exact same smegging thing wouldn't happen? Freedom is crowded because it's double xp and a lot of people have characters on Freedom. If Freedom got its own 2xp independent, there'd still be just as many people with characters on Freedom flooding into it. Think, McFly, think.
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No it really doesn't. There's no sympathy for most of of you folks because you simply don't deserve any. All of the big complainers I've seen have forum reg dates no later than 2005. That means most of you have played through every other 2x weekend and most of the big events that's happened since release. If you couldn't see the writing on the wall it's because you shut your eyes to it.
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Odd how it's hard to choose to ignore something that's different than it has been in the past. In previous events the problems were lag and occasional server crashes, we've never been (IIRC) intentionally capped. My (mistaken) belief was they increased the capacity of their clusters specifically to address those problems. I'd like to have known in advance that intentional capping was going to occur especially without a queuing mechanism.
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I saw the writing on the wall after the last 2x weekend. Freedom's been my home since before I1, but I wasn't going to play through that mess again. It just wasn't fun. So I decided to make all of my new toons on Justice. Most of my coalition has toons there as well now, and we're having a grand old time this weekend. All of you -- or near enough all to make no difference -- had this same opportunity. You could have paid to have your characters transferred to another server, or you could have done what I did and just started rolling new toons on a different one.
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Again, this is different than what happened in previous events...besides I don't like the PvE enough to want to "experience" it again so rolling new characters, leveling them, getting the accolades, and then IO'ing them out is no go. Are the developers going to replace my (small but valuable) cache of IO's or transfer my base? I don't think so, so to avoid their problem I have to pay money, convince my friends to move, lose everything in my base, or just leave it all behind and re-roll on one of the deserted servers. No thanks.
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How some of you can expect sympathy now just boggles my mind.
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How you feel entitled to pass judgment on others boggles my mind.
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thor your avatar is messed up. your posts are just not the same without it.
The developer apologists in this thread are revolting.
Capping the server for optimum performance is a good policy. This I agree with.
It becomes a nasty issue in combination with the unmoderated transfers that exist solely to line the pockets of NCsoft. The Dev-Apologists are coming back and saying that everyone complaining should roll a toon on one of the low pop servers and play that instead.
That is well and dandy if you ignore leaving SGs, friends and a community that knows you. What more is that after this event is over those toons will be on servers with little to no activity, and clique groups where it will be impossble to get a team.
Maybe things would be better for Freedom and Virtue and the rest of the Ghost town servers if NCsoft instead of solely pursuing money instead had implimented a system of MODERATED SERVER TRANSFERS. This would have encouraged people to move toons to the deadzones and possibly have prevented what is occuring this weekend (and its only going to get worse).
When something good happens to me, I can never enjoy it....
I am always too busy looking for the inevitable punchline...
BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE!
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No it really doesn't. There's no sympathy for most of of you folks because you simply don't deserve any. All of the big complainers I've seen have forum reg dates no later than 2005. That means most of you have played through every other 2x weekend and most of the big events that's happened since release. If you couldn't see the writing on the wall it's because you shut your eyes to it.
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Odd how it's hard to choose to ignore something that's different than it has been in the past. In previous events the problems were lag and occasional server crashes, we've never been (IIRC) intentionally capped. My (mistaken) belief was they increased the capacity of their clusters specifically to address those problems. I'd like to have known in advance that intentional capping was going to occur especially without a queuing mechanism.
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Actually, they did announce they would be limiting logins. Also, the servers were upgraded (as per a dev post), but Freedom exceeded the new capacity as well.
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Maybe they shouldnt have anymore double XP weekends at all, sine it always manages to royally piss everyone the hell off.
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Actually, I think they should have double-xp-weekends more often. Like say once a month. That way the shine is off of it (so to speak) and people won't break their necks to get in here twice a year.
Also, it would mean that in order to participate in it every month you would have to pay every month just like the rest of us.
Just a thought.