I can't decide if your avatar is in bad taste or if that is the girl in me being overly sensitive.....
Also freedom is an eastcost server so work and school is where people are.
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Originally Posted by impster_jr
Wow it is so dead on freedom its not funny,
All zones have like what maybe 10 players tops I know school is going on but damn was not this slow befor Wounder if some other game has all the coh players running to it now Champions online blows so i know they didnt go that way! |
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Yeah I have noticed all the empty space aswell.
Bit like when CoV was first released, CoH momentarily became a ghost town. I think it is the same thing, cept now it's Co. We shall see.
However I'm not too happy with the player numbers going as low as the Eu numbers were back when I used to play there. 
I don't know if I buy the d00m of the OP, but I have noticed that when I play, rarely do I see Freedom or Virtue with the two yellow dots as far as showing how full they are. They used to be at two dots all the time. Now, they rarely are.
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Just because everybody isn't huddled in the AE building in Atlas Park doesn't mean everybody jumped ship. The very day Issue 16 was released, the population scattered to the wind and back to their respective zones. The farmers are back in PI solo farming, the exploiters are still trying to find a way to milk whatever they can out of AE, the PuGs are running in the streets again. The only difference is that you now have the people so used to AE and teaming only in Atlas Park show up broadcasting doom like "why's it so dead?"
Yeah, but I have been /searching entire server (usually CoV side) and I have noticed a decrease in player numbers when comparing to past numbers.
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Yeah, but I have been /searching entire server (usually CoV side) and I have noticed a decrease in player numbers when comparing to past numbers.
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Alot of players are in the tailor. Alot of players are soloing with the new diff. Alot of players are trying out Aion and CO. Alot of players are rolling multiple lowbies. Alot of players use Hide.
But I still don't see the problem you all speak of. I get met with constant blind invites now, which was less frequent before I16. It takes me all of 5-10 mins to find a team if I don't wish to join up with my SG mates for whatever reason.
Everything is just fine, try and relax.
Just my personal observations drawn from /sea search all and global friend list.
Happens these were busier certain time of the day (usually checked them 9pm) than they are now. I know it doesn't represent the population, but it sure makes it slightly harder to get SFs together. I'm not freaking out yet, but I just wanted to know why.
And yeah I'm betting my money on people trying Co/Aion/DDO. I know many of my friends are trying out them atleast.
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You also posted this what, fragments of a second after the servers came back online this morning?
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You logged in after the servers JUST came back up after maintenance.
So of course there aren't going to be many in game.
(You know, maintenance. That period of time, where, NOBODY can actually log into the game, because, support are actually doing helpful stuff to the servers. Hence noone being on line. And the subsequent low numbers after it is re-opened.)
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However I'm not too happy with the player numbers going as low as the Eu numbers were back when I used to play there.
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I don't know if I buy the d00m of the OP, but I have noticed that when I play, rarely do I see Freedom or Virtue with the two yellow dots as far as showing how full they are. They used to be at two dots all the time. Now, they rarely are.
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On weekends, I always see 2 yellow dots (during US prime-time).
Weekdays they are always green for me. Always have been.
BTW, just because the dot is green, does NOT mean the server is empty.
I can't remember the exact figures. But several years ago, they did INCREASE the server loads, so what used to be a yellow dot back then, will now show as a green dot with the SAME number of players.
I almost wish they had introduced 3 more dots (totalling 6) *and left the colors based per exact numbers as the OLD system* so players would stop screaming DOOOOOM when they see a green dot for the server load.
Heck even state the exact number instead of colored dots, including in that number, the total players in hide.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I was thrilled with the Science pack cuz I finally got payback on the creepy guy that kept trying to ERP with my tween heroine, by hitting the costume change and turning into a 10' tall monstrous escaped prisoner and telling him, "You gots a real purty mouf, now bendover and squeal like a pig fo yo daddy, cuz you my little puppy now!" Haven't seen him since.
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Just by checking how many players are online currently using search. I was talking about number of players online currently now and what it was some time ago.
Eu server population tends to be way lower than Na for the servers I used to play in. I didn't say servers are empty, though.
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Originally Posted by Gaspard
Bit like when CoV was first released, CoH momentarily became a ghost town. I think it is the same thing, cept now it's Co. We shall see.
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As far as your global being empty is concerned, make new friends. My global's jam-packed now since I16 was released, I have to scroll down 3 pages to read all of the active users.
Currently online on Freedom at 3:30pm Eastern:
447 heroes not hidden
240 villains not hidden
Assume 1/3 of all people are in /hide, and we'd add on another 200ish heads to that, for a total of around 950 players during a work/school day.
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Yeah I'm currently online and this (late time for me) used to have way more than 200 or 250.
If I'm not mistaken it was something like 400-500 villain side during these times. Villain side is always less populated than hero, that's given. Of course people hidden is always speculation, but I don't think few hundred people would /hide just within few days.
Back in Eu that was usually the "peak time" , which is why I came here in order to get Sfs running better.
As for having new friends, well my list is full of friends, just happens they're playing different games for time being, some will come back some will stay, bit like general CoH public. That doesn't matter anyway, since I tend to run pugs.
But yeah I was wondering why the sudden drop, but I had forgotten Aion aswell.
I have personally tested all of them excluding DDO and I'm still staying.
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Of course people hidden is always speculation, but I don't think few hundred people would /hide just within few days.
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A new issue came out. A large chunk of the players are at the tailor, customizing their powers. Including myself. And I have a LOT of alts, each with more than one costume slot.
I have been in /hide on them, as I am getting sick of pestering tells to team, when I am busy playing with colors. And I hate saying no to my friends, and even to people I don't know; which is why I have been in hide.
I don't think I am alone in this case either. I expect a large number of people are currently in hide while they are editing their costumes.
Also I know quite a lot who are playing outside of coh in MIDS, with their new heroes/villain builds; with the recent power proliferation and addition of powers such as [physical perfection]. Seriously now, I'll be spending an hour or so on that trying to fit it on my spines/dark scrapper.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I was thrilled with the Science pack cuz I finally got payback on the creepy guy that kept trying to ERP with my tween heroine, by hitting the costume change and turning into a 10' tall monstrous escaped prisoner and telling him, "You gots a real purty mouf, now bendover and squeal like a pig fo yo daddy, cuz you my little puppy now!" Haven't seen him since.
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I just checked out every possible place to alter costume freedom red side. I don't think 6 players are huge chunk of people, after all I have been talking about Freedom red side this entire time. Also the villain numbers haven't risen that much.
Ok fine, I will run with your "I do it, so must the others" explanation. No matter how big of a stretch it may sound, just because the man in the television said so.
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Originally Posted by Gaspard
I just checked out every possible place to alter costume freedom red side. I don't think 6 players are huge chunk of people, after all I have been talking about Freedom red side this entire time. Also the villain numbers haven't risen that much.
Ok fine, I will run with your "I do it, so must the others" explanation. No matter how big of a stretch it may sound, just because the man in the television said so. |
To elaborate on my personal situation: I have been tinkering with costumes, then doing a mission-or-three; then rolling a new alt, agonising in the character creator over every single power to colour let alone my costume; then getting invited to my sg & setting up trays; followed by switching to a higher level alt to do an ITF/LGTF/STF; then back to another alt to colour more powers. My point being, I have not been sitting at the tailor during my entire game time (because I get frustrated with colour-options-overload). I've spent most of my time editing either in the creator, or on a live alt at the tailor (probably 50% of my time) and the remainder doing TF's or playing my new lowbie creations, and a fair bit of time logging in/out of game.
BTW - I haven't been talking about red side, I have been talking about the entire server (which is what the OP is about).
There are 7 tailors in this server. 3 hero, 3 villain, and 1 in pocket D.
I was talking about all of them (not just red side).
*edit* And the first thing I do after customizing my power/costume, is walk out of the tailor, and start attacking stuff, and ooooh/aaaahing over the colours. Then if I'm on a buffer, I go find players and start buffing them (so I can see what the colours came out like).
And every time I was at the tailors, I've seen a lot of other players in there also, * but then, I have no idea how long they were there for, I was busy editing my characters.
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I was thrilled with the Science pack cuz I finally got payback on the creepy guy that kept trying to ERP with my tween heroine, by hitting the costume change and turning into a 10' tall monstrous escaped prisoner and telling him, "You gots a real purty mouf, now bendover and squeal like a pig fo yo daddy, cuz you my little puppy now!" Haven't seen him since.
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Ive just come back and not had a single issue teaming or otherwise, Especially with the new SSK System.
Hm, maybe it's because two days after I16 release, but there were 45 Players in a single zone when I did a /search.
EDIT: Oops, and it was even a different server. Virtue.
My apologies.
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Peregrine Island or Rikti Warzone.... Since the AE farms are not as lucrative I have seen double instances of each. Got to know where to look.. the farmers will go back to Battle maidens and since 54 mobs are abundant in the Warzone there you go.
Also remember that now you get exp no matter what level you are doing lowbie taskforces through Ourobos crystal so check peoples bases they rarely have to leave them now.
As for us we fielded a full group just last night for the Citadel taskforce and Badge whored until 4 am Arizona time. So in that time I saw allot of players.
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Peregrine Island or Rikti Warzone.... Since the AE farms are not as lucrative I have seen double instances of each. Got to know where to look.. the farmers will go back to Battle maidens and since 54 mobs are abundant in the Warzone there you go.
Also remember that now you get exp no matter what level you are doing lowbie taskforces through Ourobos crystal so check peoples bases they rarely have to leave them now. As for us we fielded a full group just last night for the Citadel taskforce and Badge whored until 4 am Arizona time. So in that time I saw allot of players. |
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It feels like alot less people to me. I doubt it is only due to people soloing because the chatter on the global channels is down. It might be a few factors at play, the new games and CoH has (imho) been a disaster lately.
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Originally Posted by impster_jr
Wow it is so dead on freedom its not funny,
All zones have like what maybe 10 players tops I know school is going on but damn was not this slow befor Wounder if some other game has all the coh players running to it now Champions online blows so i know they didnt go that way! |
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I can't decide if your avatar is in bad taste or if that is the girl in me being overly sensitive.....
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I honestly can't say it enough; if you want pure fun in the game, Freedom Horde (the rough circle of social folks) have a blast and a half on Mondays/Wednesdays/Thursdays/Fridays/Saturdays. If you are looking for people who just have fun, can't go wrong joining up with them/us.
Wish my work schedule was a little less intense; I had/have a blast with them on most nights that I can get in-game.
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Give it a month or two. I left and have been playing CO exclusively since headstart (late August). My intent was to play both games, but CO just isn't that fun. I going to hit max level with my main then let the subscription run out. At that point, I'll be back to CoX. I suspect I'm not the only one doing this.
Virtue is more populated than Freedom now. 
Wow it is so dead on freedom its not funny,
All zones have like what maybe 10 players tops
I know school is going on but damn was not this slow befor
Wounder if some other game has all the coh players running to it now
Champions online blows so i know they didnt go that way!