Atlas Park. Under Atlas' legs.
Heh, that's an easy one for me. Most of my time on my main: Galaxy City. I always go there to log out, simply because I want to be there in time for the Galaxy Girl RP meet. Other than GC, I believe I spent most of my time levelling in Talos, simply because it tends to function as a transport hub (Good Greenline access, Pocket D access, entry to PI, Base Portal and Base TP beacon in easy reach of all of the above).
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Talos and Steel I think.
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I think the most popular ones must be the ones with Market/Auction House + Vault, because you can save some zone changes for crafting IO sets, so in my opinion Talos and Steel in Heroes side, and Cap au Diable in Villain side.
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For me most popular places are Faultline and Croatoa. Especially Croatoa because i use university in there as it is usually quite. I like faultline arc and nowadays i also use it to hunt around a bit.
Less popular ones are PvP zones. I entered both RV and Warburg once in 14,5 months. Also don't even know where the Siren's Call enterance is.
I like the Hollows, Croatoa, and the AV arcs in Peregrine :]
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Interesting stats.
I'd love to see this graphically and get some proper stats analysis but I also wonder if Origin/AT would impact on it, as well as starting location.
I'd be really interested in seeing a larger sample base. I also notice a total absence of Cimeroroa and I'm curious as to when this was carried out... I'm getting the feeling, especially Hero-side that there's more content than one toon can take in.
Also a quick question to satisfy my pedantic mind: Did you ever access Flashback missions from the base using the base item pillar of ice and flame? If so, how did you count those? A Base Visit or an Ouroboros visit? :P
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Talos for all above reasons, Peregrine because I farm , RWZ because I don't just farm and Cimeroa because its new. Also Kings Row & steel for lower characters.
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Also don't even know where the Siren's Call enterance is.
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North-west Steel Canyon, near bronze Dot/sewers entrance if memory serves.
I usually find myself in:
#Eastgate(Hollows)
#Steel Canyon (mumbles incoherantly about still not having fieldcrafter)
#Atlas
#Recluses Victory
.....unless I am called away to a mission somewhere.
I would say my 50 spends most of his or her time assisting others in random zones, but most solo time in the AH / uni in steel because it's the closest place the two are together. (until i get the field crafter badge)
I find this strangely interesting.
Hero side it would have to be Talos. Auction House, easy acces to Green line/base portal, access to PI ect, fave place to go for invasions, also hunting BP Spirit masks, close together shops when in lvl range and its pretty.
Vill side it would have to be Cap, but then its pretty much designed to be the central hub of the Isles as you can get to every zone (apart from the PvP zones and PD) from it. It has everything you need, and if it doesn't have it, then it will take you to where you want to be.
Me thinks that the Market Houses have a greater effect on popularity of zones.
huh weird I always would've thought that Atlas would've been the most popular zone heroes side as for villains well I'm still hanging around St Martial for some strange reason slowly finishing off old contacts so I wouldn't know if theres a popular zone over on villains 
Talos is probably the zone I spend the most time in on the journey to 50, then PI and IP would beat it though cause of STFs and Portal missions.
Talos is just handy, has greenline, Pocket D in it, the Oro portal is near the train line oh and it links to the best zone in the game heroside of Striga
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Also don't even know where the Siren's Call enterance is.
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North-west Steel Canyon, near bronze Dot/sewers entrance if memory serves.
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i would say atlas park, more because i see lvl 50 everywhere...
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It's marked as a red dot on the right side wall of Steel Canyon - it's a 25+ zone, with a fun bounty system that can earn you enhancements.
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The zones I spend the most time in are Atlas Park and RV - but they're not my favorite zones
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It's marked as a red dot on the right side wall of Steel Canyon - it's a 25+ zone, with a fun bounty system that can earn you enhancements.
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Poor GG, doesn't know her zones. It's 20+. Also, the bounty system is garbage. It's a PvP zone, not a mission Jango Fett is set to do on Star Wars.
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Hero side it would have to be Talos. Auction House, easy acces to Green line/base portal, access to PI ect, fave place to go for invasions, also hunting BP Spirit masks, close together shops when in lvl range and its pretty.
Vill side it would have to be Cap, but then its pretty much designed to be the central hub of the Isles as you can get to every zone (apart from the PvP zones and PD) from it. It has everything you need, and if it doesn't have it, then it will take you to where you want to be.
Me thinks that the Market Houses have a greater effect on popularity of zones.
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^This, pretty much. These two are always the zones I see the most players in, usually around the auction houses.
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I also notice a total absence of Cimeroroa and I'm curious as to when this was carried out...
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Also a quick question to satisfy my pedantic mind: Did you ever access Flashback missions from the base using the base item pillar of ice and flame? If so, how did you count those? A Base Visit or an Ouroboros visit? :P
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Even though Talos Island was this alt's most visited location, it isn't my favourite zone. Like the quiet serenity of Crey's Folly personally, not too mention the danger...!
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I like the Hollows around Eastgate Heights when you're near the top and there's a haze over all the area below you, especially when the sun is setting or rising.
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Whilst levelling my Fire/Axe Tank to 50, I decided to keep a record of the number of times I changed zone. This was basically to find out where you spend the most of your time in game.
Figures below represent the number of zone changes. I tried to be as efficient as possible (basically only went into a zone if had a mission, to sell at AH etc....). I also recorded the number of deaths that occurred in each zone (mission etc..). Information is laid out historically, so it shows Outbreak as my starting point, and Ouroboros as the last zone I visited.
Before I collated this information, I thought that Steel Canyon would be the most visited, and more deaths would have occurred in Peregrine Island.
Zone shown in Green with no. of visits, and Deafeats shown in Red.
Outbreak - 1 No Defeats
Atlas Park - 69 (2)
The Hollows - 30 (17)
King's Row - 53 (4)
Perez Park - 32 (3)
Galaxy City - 11 No defeats
Steel Canyon - 132 (11)
Skyway City - 85 (11)
Boomtown - 9 No Defeats
Faultine - 8 No Defeats
Bloody Bay - 5 (8)
Talos Island - 137 (5)
Independence Port - 80 (7)
Striga Isle - 10 (7)
Dark Astoria - 21 (2)
Terra Volta - 12 (5)
Croatoa - 17 (7)
Brickstown - 88 (13)
Supergroup Base - 101 No Defeats
Pocket D - 36 (3)
Crey's Folly - 24 No Defeats
Founder's Falls - 57 (13)
Peregrine Island - 36 (29)
Eden - 2 No Defeats
Sewer Network - 4 No Defeats
Abandioned Sewer Network - 2 No Defeats
Rikti War Zone - 6 (8)
Recluse's Victory - 1 No Defeats
Ouroboros - 25 No Defeats
Total Zone changes = 1,093
Total Defeats = 155
[u]Conclusions[u]
1. Not Into PvP that much, as not visited either Siren's Call or Warburg, and have only ventured into RCV and BB for badges and Shivans.
2. Not been to the Shards at all.
3. Not attempted Sewer or Eden Trial's on Unjust Law.
4. Not attempted old or new Hamidon on UL, as not been into the Hive. Since hitting 50 have got the exploration badges.
5. Inconclusive Data, as most of levelling done prior to getting Pocket D powers, and Ouroboros.
6. Wasn't part of a SG for that long. Most of SG base use now is short cuts, but took a while to get teleporters (as all my alts in my own SG).
7. Talos Island is the most popular, due to selling items after high end TFs and seems to be a central point.
Ok. So this is only a snapshot of my Tank. The results would have been a lot different had I been a PvPer, rather than a PvEer. Infact no 2 characters would be exactly the same, as you would need to take into account the origin, AT, team/solo, Powerlevelling, Farming etc... But where do you think you spend most of your time?
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