Not really. Villain population has always been lower than hero, for a number of reasons, but plenty of people play both sides and multiple servers, so a true population number for any given server or side is necessarily fluid.
City of Heroes still has plenty of players - the last statistics released I believe had us trending up at somewhere around 120,000 to 130,000 subscribers, but that's just from memory and may be in error. Bottom line, there's plenty of people playing.
Probably the most important factors are the time of day you're playing and what methods you're using. Especially if you're playing at off-peak times, you'll want to do more than just put your LFT flag up and send broadcasts. Forming teams is always the best approach, but if you'd rather not do that there's a number of good global channels you can join for every server and a good SG does wonders.
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well, i'm actually a veteran player, i started in beta but i stopped after a year, and everything changed
i found someoen to answer my ah questions. but now, why cant i equip any enhance inventions...they all say they cant be combined with any others in red
Invention Enhancements (IO's) cannot be combined, only Training Enhancements (TO's) and Dual/ Single Origin Enhancements (DO's/SO's) can be combined.
i understand that, but why cant i equip it? i tried a damage/acc and a recharge/acc....i cant equip it...the only red message is what i typed above
If it is the proper level, but still wont equip, it's because it origin does not match yours.
Is the number showing up red? Or just text at the bottom?
The reason Invention Origin Enhancements can't combine is because, no matter what level you are, the IO's scale to you. Meaning, a level 50 could use nothing but level 25 Damage IO's. Instead of having to combine to get + or ++ enhancements, the total value of the IO increases to your level 50.
Sure, they aren't as strong as level 50 IO's and most level 50 SO's, but they still are better using than just using your base (non-modified) powers.
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As Red stated above, your powers might not take certain IO's. If you have healing powers you can slot regular or IO Healing sets, but you can not use the Advanced Healing IO sets unless your power specifically says it can. Some of the newer "advanced" sets are additional sets that only work with certain Archetypes.
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well, i'm actually a veteran player, i started in beta but i stopped after a year, and everything changed
i found someoen to answer my ah questions. but now, why cant i equip any enhance inventions...they all say they cant be combined with any others in red
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Invention Enhancements function entirely different from Origin Enhancements. Unlike Origin enhancements, Inventions will not decay as you level; they will always give their stated percent. Also, the higher the level stamped on the enhancement, the greater the percentage. An even-level Accuracy SO will give 33% enh. A level 50 Accuracy Invention will give 42.4% enh.
Since they have different mechanisms from regular Origin Enhancements you cannot combine the two. You can, however, replace one with the other. Just drag them over the existing enhancement and drop them there. You'll get a pop-up warning text (which you can turn off) asking if you want to break the enhancement that is currently in that spot with the new one.
If you played for just a year after launch, you might also want to familiarize yourself with Enhancement Diversification. On the face of it this looks terribly limiting. But as it turns out, Invention Sets have allowed builds that *completely* outstrip the performance of pre-ED slotting in all categories. As a quick example: many Super Reflexes players do not bother to take the tier-9 god-mode power (Elude) anymore because with Invention Sets they can reach the same level of protection permanently and without a crash to go with it.
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i understand that, but why cant i equip it? i tried a damage/acc and a recharge/acc....i cant equip it...the only red message is what i typed above
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Ah, you're talking about Set Enhancements. You try to drag it to the spot but it's greyed out and won't accept it?
If that's the case then you have an enhancement from a Set category that doesn't match with the power you're trying to slot it in (regardless of whether the power could benefit from Acc, Dam, or Rech). Set enhancements come in categories: Melee Damage, Targeted AoE Damage, Snipes, Heals, etc. The info for the Enh should list what category it belongs to. Also if you go into the Enhancement Management screen and mouse over a particular power, the info in the lower right should list what kinds of Sets the power will accept.
Can you say what specific Enhancement names you were trying to put in what power?
Oh, also if you are playing on an existing character and have been gone a long time you may not be aware that there is an Invention Tutorial you can do at the Universities (Steel Canyon heroside and Cap au Diable villainside) from lv10+. That will familiarize you with the basics of Inventions and what they can and can't do.
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why cant i equip any enhance inventions...they all say they cant be combined with any others in red
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Just to cover something that I don't think has been made explicitly clear:
In this particular instance, "combining" specifically refers to merging two similar Enhancements to try to raise the higher one's level. It does not mean having different types of Enhancements in different slots in the same power.
whats city of heroes population nowadays? has it lost its spark to wow? i'm tryin to level a villain but it seems that i can never get anyone to respond to any of the questions i ask. i play on liberty btw