A big fat NO!!
This gets suggested several times a month, the answer is ALWAYS that it's not needed, and 9 times out of 10, ends up in a big flame war.
/UNSIGNED
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Just a relevant reply to this, my brother who does not play, just walked past and said
'why do you still play this? no one even seems to be on it'
I just said because its a good game, but he was right, the game is dying.
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A big fat NO!!
This gets suggested several times a month, the answer is ALWAYS that it's not needed, and 9 times out of 10, ends up in a big flame war.
/UNSIGNED
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Can you say why not though? other than just NO? Not needed if you play at 50 thats true, but have you tried leveling an alt without a farm lately?
EDIT: Surely the fact this gets mentioned several times a month must mean people have begun to take notice too.
Read one of the 50 billion threads already on it, and you'll see why.
EDIT: Most of the time it's suggested by people who don't play at peak times, or who are fairly new, or who just don't realise that most of the game is set in instances, so of course the zones will appear empty.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
I've just been happily playing in an 8-man team for 3 hours. Just like last night, when I was also happily on an 8-person team. On Defiant both times.
Sorry, we're fresh out of Dooooooooom here. Go try SWG if you want to see something imploding. 
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
is it a friday
oh it isnt
stop talking crazy talk its not a friday
Is not going to remain VIP after Jan 14th 2012, but may remain an active Premium account holder.
See some of you guys/gals in other/new MMOs Soon(tm)
N.B. If you are going to do smt, please do it or GTFO and STFU nab
Aren't you a little early with this?
Usually these merger posts happen on Fridays...
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Also there seems to be a giant increase in the lack of ignorance when asking to join a team, a lot of the time people dont even bother to reply anymore.
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I must say that the 'asking to join a team' is a trend of the last 6 months or so... It used to be "want to join my team?", maybe there in lies an answer?
People in a team are usually busy, the team is chatting/fighting so it's quite easy to loose track of a tell or two, or not taking the time to respond to them.
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ignorant people playing
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Ignorant? Ignorant of what?
@ShadowGhost & @Ghostie
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i have a better question why merge?
Im not looking for a flame war, Im just stating facts.
The game would benefit much more from a merge, especially on villains.
Im not saying its impossible to get a team, im just saying one team for every 10 levels is kind of pathetic for a mmorpg. Any game that is going to survive needs players coming in constantly, and theres not many doing that until the new issues come out and then not many stay.
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Can you say why not though? other than just NO? Not needed if you play at 50 thats true, but have you tried leveling an alt without a farm lately?
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I play almost every night and NEVER struggle to find a non-farm team.
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I like this idea.
Signed with a big yes from me. The small issues can be worked out.
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Im not looking for a flame war, Im just stating facts.
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No, you're really really not. You're stating an opinion based upon an erroneous supposition drawn from incomplete data.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
This thread covers a lot of the discussion rather well and even has some stats. Worth a read. [linky]
Hope that helps.
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Im not looking for a flame war, Im just stating my one sided, uninformed opinion.
The game would benefit much more from a merge, especially on villains.
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Fixed.
And along the same lines as FFM. These happen all too often. It'll get the same responses and end in the same way. GR locking it. Save yourself the upset
No.
For a start way, way too many people would have to change a lot of character names.
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Aren't you a little early with this?
Usually these merger posts happen on Fridays...
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Also there seems to be a giant increase in the lack of ignorance when asking to join a team, a lot of the time people dont even bother to reply anymore.
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I must say that the 'asking to join a team' is a trend of the last 6 months or so... It used to be "want to join my team?", maybe there in lies an answer?
People in a team are usually busy, the team is chatting/fighting so it's quite easy to loose track of a tell or two, or not taking the time to respond to them.
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Good point there actually regarding the asking for teams, the thing is, not many people outside of farms ask for members unless they run down to about 4 people now. Also 6 months ago you put your tag to 'looking for team' and within 5 minutes you got an invite, ok usually a blind, but an invite is an invite, now you can run around all day, as i did yesterday and broadcast your level and lft, and hear nothing. I ended up soloing my entire way up to 32 because of a lack of a team.
Ignorant people playing as in people who refuse to reply to tells, or believe your out of there level range because your -2 levels. Yes i know theres a good chance there just afk, but last week i bound this 'Hi $target, im a level (cant remember level at time) any chance of an invite to your team please?'
This was sent to the entire list that was teamed within my level range, and i only received one reply saying 'full' which is fair enough he took the time to reply but out of the 17 in my level range one reply? come on... not all afk.
im not stating a one sided opinion, i actually agree with the names thing to some extent, but have you any other ideas to improve server population?
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This thread covers a lot of the discussion rather well and even has some stats. Worth a read. [linky]
Hope that helps.
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Thanks a lot for the linky 
i agree with the option to move to american servers if paid for then, at least you have a choice in the matter.
One man's ignorant is another man's busy, or afk, or just didn't see the tell as it scrolled off too quick.
I regularly have my search detail set to "Not looking". I have "No blind invites" in my search string, I get easily a dozen blind invites every evening.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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im not stating a one sided opinion, i actually agree with the names thing to some extent, but have you any other ideas to improve server population?
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Subscription rates are on the rise.
As was mentioned above in the other link, it seems american server transfer seems the best option, thinking il buy an account next payday.
Thank you again for your views on the situation.
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im not stating a one sided opinion, i actually agree with the names thing to some extent, but have you any other ideas to improve server population?
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Wait for I13 and the people who will come in to see what's new?
I never look for a team, and I still get into one more often than not. (at least on Heroes, I rarely play Villains, so I can't comment on that.) This is on both servers. At all level ranges. So I'm just stating my 'facts' that a server merger isn't needed.
However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
Hang on is this the monthly doom thread or the bi monthly server merge thread?
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im not stating a one sided opinion, i actually agree with the names thing to some extent, but have you any other ideas to improve server population?
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Subscription rates are on the rise.
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Sorry but thats [censored] theres hardly any players on that arent already vets coming in i asked my friends to see if anyone would play a free account i have, and none said they would even pay the sub on a dead game.
Ok i know im gonna get flamed for this one, but its what was said in exact words. I am putting this thread to rest, i arent going to read it anymore anyway so flame away
Playing city of heroes or city of villains on union at the minute seems tough to get a team at any level besides 40-50, i logged on today, 12 midday and one team going between 1-20 on villains, switch to heroes one team going 1-10 (3 members) nothing going level 10-20.
Logged on Villains again 6pm, one team going between 1-20 (6 members) two teams on heroes (one full one 3 members)
I could list all my alts findings on different times but it seems theres only ever a chance of a half decent team if your a farmer, between level 40-50, or happen to be on at right time to get in that one team.
Also there seems to be a giant increase in the lack of ignorance when asking to join a team, a lot of the time people dont even bother to reply anymore.
So my solution is, merge european servers into one big server? I understand there will be a lot of competition for names etc, but it could go on a first come first serve basis much like the RF online server merge.
Or even possibly why stop there? why not join european servers to the american version of the game and have the dev teams join together?
These are just a few ideas of course but the reason i chose to name level 1-20 is because it isnt going to look very enticing to new players seeing half dead servers and ignorant people playing, even if they are only on trial accounts.
It doesnt just apply to these levels i have looked right through the spectrum, there most commonly seems to be either one team or a full team and a small team. In a team based game you need players which just arent there unless your higher level.
General comments to this especially any red names would be greatly appreciated.