It's that 5 minutes before they go grey. 
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I make a prediction here and now. Tuesday at least 9 of the servers will hit heavy load.
Probably all 11
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I'd be surprised if half of them hit yellow. I don't think it's POSSIBLE to hit red any more, with the server pop cap.
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Freedom hits gray all the time when there is an event going on and when issue 14 came out.
Grey is not red. Grey is an artificial limit put in place BEFORE it hits red.
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
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We have too many servers for COH/V. Drop em to 5 so theres a real population in each one rather than 2 or 3.
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Which of your favorite characters would you like to be changed to Generic ### ### ### ### first, and which of your SGs would you like to start rebuilding from scratch first?
Heck, I'm sure someone could arrange to have your characters genericed and SGs deleted without punishing tens of thousands of other players in the process. You'd get what you wanted, the real results of a server merger, so you'd be satisfied, right?
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NO ITS HORRIBLE! ALL YOU ARE STUPED WITH UR BIG POST COUNT AND NUMEROUS FIFTIES...... THAT AUTOMATICALLY MAKES YOUR POINTS INVALID! SO THAT MEANS MY SIDE IS CORRECT
AND CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL... IM DOING FOR CAPS LOCK WHAT JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE DID FOR SEXY!
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Best impression of the OP i've seen yet. you get 3 1/2 stars for effort. 
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Grey is not red. Grey is an artificial limit put in place BEFORE it hits red.
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The cap is an actual number of logins concurrently.
Server load colours are not. (though they have tended to correlate)
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Wow. I make a suggestion and recieve nothing but bile laced smarmy response. How underwhelming. Hey Im willing to bet you all go nuts whenever someone you see has just got a haircut. Ripe pickings in the land of cool huh?
Right now Virtue and Freedom are the only flush servers. If there were only six servers or five then the "quiet" would be maintained minus the desolation factor. Seriously today on Protector nobody was on Perigrine Island. Ghost town.
I understand y'all have 20 50's and can speak COH abbreviation like a military linguistics operator, but being a spazzy tool is hard to hide. Chill out folks. The idea has some merit, and I wouldnt be surprised theres always a long whine fest whenever someone suggests something out of the norm.
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If it's any help (probably not, but oh well), it's not really directed at you per-se.
As has been pointed out, this suggestion comes up frequently enough and a bit of easy searching can find it for you.
Also, as has been pointed out, that there are LOTS of negatives to a server merge. Some of this is stuff people are NOT willing to put up with.
In short, if you want to play on a more populous server, go play on those servers. Most of the people playing on the less-busy servers like it that way.
Thank you.
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Grey is not red. Grey is an artificial limit put in place BEFORE it hits red.
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The cap is an actual number of logins concurrently.
Server load colours are not. (though they have tended to correlate)
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Yeah and the do, definitely, go red long before then. I have seen the red, and I have seen the grey. It's a pre-emptive use of the cap, yes, because it's better to keep those thousands of people ON the game at all, than to let them actually CRASH it.
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I wonder if we could get a copy of the "Reasons why server mergers are undesireable" stickied and locked. Then, when people ignore it, we can simply provide the link back to it and move on.
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Right now Virtue and Freedom are the only flush servers . . . Seriously today on Protector nobody was on Perigrine Island. Ghost town.
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Here's the funniest part the OP's suggestion.
He wants to make all servers more like Freedom yet he chose to play on Protector because it's less populated than Freedom.
He doesn't even understand that the reason Peregrine Island is empty is because all the farmers and PLers are are using the MA in the other zones.
Or that there are around 2-3 times as many people ON protector than there were shortly before I14...
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I make a prediction here and now. Tuesday at least 9 of the servers will hit heavy load.
Probably all 11
[/ QUOTE ]I doubt it. There will be a lot more activity, and Freedom will probably fill (and possibly Virtue, too), but I doubt all of the servers will. I haven't even gotten an email about the anniversary, so I'm sure there are plenty of people unaware of the events that will be occurring.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
Regardless of people there for the anniversary, Steam will be providing us with plenty of newcomers and it's a reactivation week - even if you and I don't get those emails, plenty of other folks will be.
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hey fleet, there was a big post on it up in announcements. so im sure quite a few peeps know by now. 
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Wow. I make a suggestion and recieve nothing but bile laced smarmy response.
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Learn to read what's said, then try to comprehend it. The reasons against, plus explanation FOR those reasons, has been given. Multiple times.
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Very good thing
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NO ITS HORRIBLE! ALL YOU ARE STUPED WITH UR BIG POST COUNT AND NUMEROUS FIFTIES...... THAT AUTOMATICALLY MAKES YOUR POINTS INVALID! SO THAT MEANS MY SIDE IS CORRECT
AND CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL... IM DOING FOR CAPS LOCK WHAT JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE DID FOR SEXY!
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He's bringing caps lock back...yeah.
Those lowcase letters don't know how to act...yeah.
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hey fleet, there was a big post on it up in announcements. so im sure quite a few peeps know by now.
[/ QUOTE ]An announcement in the forums doesn't mean much to the population at large. A link from the updater helps, but a lot of people barely register the content in the updater.
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yeah, good point. didn't think about it like that. 
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The idea has some merit,
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No, it doesn't.
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and I wouldnt be surprised theres always a long whine fest whenever someone suggests something out of the norm.
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Unusual ideas are interesting and worthy of discussion. Big Red Ball. Fully destructible maps. Cross-server PvP zones.
"Cut the number of servers in half" isn't interesting, or new, or unusual, or worthy of debate. It's a suggestion made by people who give absolutely no thought to the ramifications of the process, and in fact, no thought or concern for anyone other than themselves.
No. No-one here is willing to risk losing character names and identities, or super groups they spent millions of prestige and long, hard months of work perfecting, to satisfy the ridiculous demands of a handful of losers who can't or won't make their own teams, or can't or won't play on a server because the population doesn't satisfy their need to feel like a lone sheep in a vast flock.
Suck it up, buttercup.
Fewer, not less.
Oh, and NO... please no! For all of the reasons above stated, no.
So what youre all basically saying is youre against the idea.
Sorry I spazzed. Listen ive built many a team, and there really is a desolation prob. Today on Protector there were a total of 12 yes 12 toons lvl 16-25 in total. So when I see servers that are even worse I came up w/the suggestion.
What about players willfully being able to switch their toons for free. Server to server whenever you wish. Yes that would mean the game couldnt make any money in that area anymore, but the increased volume of players activity would make up for it. Might be technically nightmarish, but it might not either. SGs would stay where they are though. Idk. Just thought Id share.
What would free transfers do ? Make freedom even worse, and not address activity anywhere.
People PL a new alt up, then park it somewhere else. Shifitng it onto their prefered play server when they want to use it.
Want to play on a busy server, eat the $10 for a transfer or roll a new character for free. It really is that simple.
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So what youre all basically saying is youre against the idea.
Sorry I spazzed. Listen ive built many a team, and there really is a desolation prob. Today on Protector there were a total of 12 yes 12 toons lvl 16-25 in total. So when I see servers that are even worse I came up w/the suggestion.
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What you see as a desolation problem, others see as comfortable. While Protector may feel more like Vancouver, Wa than Vancouver B.C. or even the "NYC" of Freedom, many folks are happy there. Those twelve characters are only a small sampling. Not knowing the time of day, nor which faction (red or blue) you were looking for, or what percentage of the populace plays using the "/hide from search" option, I couldn't tell you much about Protector's population. Twelve should be enough to team. Heck, two is a team. Anyway, I digress.
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What about players willfully being able to switch their toons for free. Server to server whenever you wish. Yes that would mean the game couldnt make any money in that area anymore, but the increased volume of players activity would make up for it. Might be technically nightmarish, but it might not either. SGs would stay where they are though. Idk. Just thought Id share.
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Okay. Free server transfers? I could see that in some cases, with limits.
Perhaps X number of "Free Server Transfer Tokens" added onto the Vet Rewards of 3, 9, 18, etc. months? Definately a finite number, though, I'm sure.
Would you want to transfer to a different, more populated server? Forgetting Freedom or Virtue, I'd suggest Justice or Infinity.
We've pointed out some of the flaws in merging servers, I do hope that you see where we're coming from.
Let's talk about those server transfers.
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Today on Protector there were a total of 12 yes 12 toons lvl 16-25 in total.
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And what about the other 200 at different level ranges?
We can sidekick and exemplar. Don't even start with the "but there aren't teams".
We also have server transfers. If you think that Protector - my home server - is 'dead' then *buy a server transfer or two and go to freedom*. But don't try *changing Protector INTO freedom* thank you very much. I like it exactly the way it is.
And your information is - without a doubt - wrong, about there only being 12 or whatever people.
** Search only finds people who are not on hide ** Anyone with eyes can look around and see far more than those you saw. Plus, do you think that the folks *higher* level than that don't have random alts that they might be willing to get on and play? Have you even asked? Do you have any people on the server even willing to *play* with you on a regular basis that would do that? If you don't, there's a problem right there. Join a global channel or two and become more social. But don't piss and moan because you're not willing to find people or ask them to alt. It's not a sin to do that. Plus, I've been on Protector for almost 5 years. The people there *are willing to do that* if you are as well willing to be friendly and non-confrontatory. With the attitude seen here, I can say you're going to have to learn to control your temper and your mouth, if you want ANYONE to team up with you regularly or go out of their way to help.
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I make a prediction here and now. Tuesday at least 9 of the servers will hit heavy load.
Probably all 11
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I'd be surprised if half of them hit yellow. I don't think it's POSSIBLE to hit red any more, with the server pop cap.
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.