Toon Transfers: Which Server(s) Have the Best/Worst Player Populations?
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Amanita,
Posted on: 2009-12-15 24:13 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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I pm and pm all last night and you would not answer. Is it over between us Karl? Was that night in Pocket D just hook up and not something special like you told me? Karl, do not be player, pm me back...please.
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Originally Posted by Karl_Rove_Man
Please PM me in-game @Karl Rove Man. I'm lonely. So lonely.
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Every server cept Virtue and Freedom is dead during the day and non primetime hours.
So if you are moving, pick a winner and go with Virtue.
You couldn't pay me to play on Virtue.
@Celestial Lord and @Celestial Lord Too
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But you could pay NCSoft!|
Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
You couldn't pay me to play on Virtue.
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*rimshot*
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*crickets*
Statesmonkey Sez: Lighten up! It's a game, for Lincoln's sake!
Also: Six years of casual play begins to look an awful lot like one year of hardcore play.
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Hahahaha... Okay, your reverse information hook worked, now you have to tell why.
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Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
You couldn't pay me to play on Virtue.
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There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.
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Lag, furries, and Pocket D.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Hahahaha... Okay, your reverse information hook worked, now you have to tell why.
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@Celestial Lord and @Celestial Lord Too
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The lag is minimal except during ship raids.|
Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
Lag, furries, and Pocket D.
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Furries are mythical. Even in Pocket D. Well, there's Rowr, but she's not your usual furry.
I suggest staying out of Pocket D, then. Just use the hallways to jump between zones.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
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Virtue's Help Channel is actually used by players to answer other player's questions in an informative and polite manner.|
Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
You couldn't pay me to play on Virtue.
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For some folks, that's a difficult thing to adjust to.
Of the 3 servers I've played in (Virtue, Freedom and Victory), Freedom is the 'best' one. It has the highest over-all population, the highest redside population of the three, and the most people looking to group up.
Victory was the least populated of the three but is still pretty full of folks playing. It does, however, seem to have more people looking to solo. I've only ever been able to do one TF there and it was with only 5 people. On Freedom, I have no problem finding a full group for whatever TF I want to do.
Virtue, in the week I spent playing a villain there, seems to have the least people on redside of the three. In the whole week, no one ever used broadcast to look to team up, and the map pops were half of Victory's. I know it's not an RP thing, blueside broadcast channels are filled with people looking for teams.
My suggestion: explore the servers and you'll find the one that's best for you. I still have toons on all three of the above.
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Wow, you're right--you've never played on Virtue before! |
Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
Lag, furries, and Pocket D.
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There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.
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A friend of mine convinced me to give Virtue a try back in 2006. It was so incredibly laggy in Atlas Park that I logged off and never bothered coming back.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Wow, you're right--you've never played on Virtue before!
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@Celestial Lord and @Celestial Lord Too
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I play on a laptop. With an integrated chipset. Not a graphics card, a chipset. If I turn graphics up to around halfway, and I start crashing whenever a Force Fielder walks by. Or when too many people are on screen. Or when it's a long mission. You get my point, this is a weak computer.|
Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
A friend of mine convinced me to give Virtue a try back in 2006. It was so incredibly laggy in Atlas Park that I logged off and never bothered coming back.
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When I turn the settings down, though, and am able to run around stably, I notice that Atlas Park isn't exceptionally laggy. It's got people there, sure, but there are easy ways to mitigate that, and the place is quite easy to avoid, or just run through.
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That was 2006. It's been, what, almost four years, now? We've fixed a lot since then.|
Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
A friend of mine convinced me to give Virtue a try back in 2006. It was so incredibly laggy in Atlas Park that I logged off and never bothered coming back.
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... including most of the catgirls.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
But Virtue has P_P.
I'll be sticking to Triumph, the Country Club server.
And by Country Club, I mean they have a dress code - pants optional.
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Join Victory Forum and Victory Badges global channels, and you won't have a problem finding a team for a TF. The other day we ran something like 4 TFs in a row.
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Originally Posted by Crimson Vanquisher
Victory was the least populated of the three but is still pretty full of folks playing. It does, however, seem to have more people looking to solo. I've only ever been able to do one TF there and it was with only 5 people.
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When I was on Vic it had a decent number of people.
Of course, then the HBSS got run out of town on a rail for being too risque'... figure we lost a quarter of the server pop right there.
I miss those folks, they were fun to team with.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
HBSS?
As for Freedom, I might move my villains there instead of Virtue. Is Freedom really hostile to RP'ers though? I don't RP all the time, but when I'm with the right people, it's fun.
A (Golden Gate) Bridge Too Far- arc 299315
Crazy NIMBY's, Railroad robber barons, and kickboxing Engineers, Oh My! Go back in time and join the fight to save a San Francisco icon!
Freedom is RP-hostile in the same way that a windstorm would be public speaking-hostile.
The majority of the players probably don't care one way or another, but the aggregate player noise would most likely drown out any public RP.
And the HBSS was the acronym for a supergroup on Victory known as the Hot Bod Super Squad. It consisted of mostly young couples that were, how shall we say, rather uninhibited with each other. There was a single thread on the Victory forum that was known to be full of innuendo and silliness (like the Virtue "rookery" threads, only more innuendo and less silliness).
The group got a bit of a rep with the Victory Cabal, and was pretty much chased off the Victory Forum. Some players still are around, but most migrated to other servers.
"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."
I don't public RP so much, but in receptive teams I have been known to. Also, since Freedom has the highest red-side population, I may move most of my villains over there, and leave Virtue for my heroes.
A (Golden Gate) Bridge Too Far- arc 299315
Crazy NIMBY's, Railroad robber barons, and kickboxing Engineers, Oh My! Go back in time and join the fight to save a San Francisco icon!
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Run out of town?|
Originally Posted by Soul Train
When I was on Vic it had a decent number of people.
Of course, then the HBSS got run out of town on a rail for being too risque'... figure we lost a quarter of the server pop right there. I miss those folks, they were fun to team with. |
*looks at 50s, looks at who I was teaming with and where last night*
The HBSS and HBNS (and, though less active, HBSqS) are still around. With the HBCS (chaos squad - "let someone else pick your AT/powersets") on another server. Things have calmed down a bit, but we're certainly still active there. Most of the artwork I've had done in the gallery - normally posted in the fanart section? The majority are HB's.
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| The group got a bit of a rep with the Victory Cabal, and was pretty much chased off the Victory Forum. Some players still are around, but most migrated to other servers. |
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I'll give those a shot then. I still have a couple of useful toons left in Victory.|
Originally Posted by Vivace
Join Victory Forum and Victory Badges global channels, and you won't have a problem finding a team for a TF. The other day we ran something like 4 TFs in a row.
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Originally Posted by Amanita
Also, since Freedom has the highest red-side population, I may move most of my villains over there, and leave Virtue for my heroes.
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Just want to post that I play redside on Virtue and the combination of global channels, a friendly attitude, and willingness to *gasp!* form my own teams for SFs and the like have left me unable to log in without getting multiple tells asking me what I have planned for the night. In the hour I logged in so far today, I joined a speed ITF and declined two invites to mission teams and a themed LGTF, all redside. This is completely apart from the BNY boredom and spam. So, if you like redside, don't fear Virtue.
This may or may not help.....
http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Servers
Er... I believe the wikia link is the old, "slowly taken over by RMT spam" site.
Currently they're on the titan network - http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Servers
/t @Karl Rove Man, Hey why so lonely? What happened to all you bot love?