Free server transfer....

Also, keep in mind that with the glorious Going Rogue comes a new Praetoria zone / world, with two totally new options to start and play characters in it other than Hero or Villain, that everyone will surely want to try because its all new and shiny. The hero and villain zones will likely be even more empty (than what is left of them in half a year!) then, even if more players are on in total.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Solaris Relatively quiet in comparison...however not dead. I've begun playing CoH more regularly again and I don't seem to have any problems picking up teams. The Defiant Events channel is a click away and tend to get a team even late in the evening.

Isnt late evening rather prime time?

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Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano I do agree on the whole 'server list merge' front though however I don't think it'll be until after GR that they'll make any moves, they don't want the bad press that could follow a server list merger to sully the golden light that is meant to GR.

City of Heroes has press?

Hmmm, guys you got it all wrong, see, no need for server merge/list merge, everything is fine EU side:

1.- I got a team this morning so there's no problem getting teams.

2.- Zones seem empty because everyone is inside an instance doing missions and also in PvP zones. Also the Architect buildings are very popular instanced zones that unfortunately, may help giving the impession main common zones are empty.

3.- The /sea command shows only a few ppl since pretty much everyone is in hide precisely to avoid the flow of Team/TF requests.-

4.- Let's not forget we are on Christmas holidays and ppl want to spend time with their families singing carols instead of playing computer games.-

5.- Worldwide crisis, ppl don't want to spend money playing games.-

6.- The EU population is increasing, I am living proof of it since I resubbed today.-

7.- If any problem with EU servers (or anything else for that matter) then farmers are to blame, kill them all now and problem sorted (including the abovementioned worldwide crisis, of course).-


Obvious conclusion is that everything goes well on EU servers, nothing to see here, move along citizen.-

One re-sub does not out weigh the amount of lapsed subs though. I know 8 people who have left EU servers for US ones just this month so EU are still 7 subs down. Most of those 8 had 2 accounts so the figure would be closer to 12.

I've recently come back off a CoX break and i haven't notice much a difference (UNION) since the SSK, i found it incredibly easy to find a team. I don't think the EU server is dying.
Also with going rogue offering power sets, a new zone, side switching and ULTRA GRAPHICS it could bring back alot of new/old players.


And you never know people may have unsubscribed to save up for a newer graphics card or something.

lols @ the neg rep from this thread.

Truth hurts, huh.

I don't see how opening up the all the servers to all the players could possibly be seen as a bad thing?
Merging the 2 server lists would be a perfect boost to go with GR, and all the new players it might attract - no more problems of people getting the "wrong" version of the game - just one big server list, with flags for East Coast, West Coast, British, German and french.

Yes exactly.

But still thats not actually affecting to me at all. I just like to play on Defiant and I like people there. I'm not going anywhere. See you there boys and girls.

Rooty tooty, fresh and fruity, Ravenswing what is that woman doing with those swords!?

Yeah ever since people found the easy PL in AE things have gone down. There was a bit upswing in regualr teaming on both servers when they nerfed it but its steadily going down instead of going up. Which i find odd since its the holidays and a lot of people going to school are coming home for the holidays.

Als.

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1.- I got a team this morning so there's no problem getting teams. 2.- Zones seem empty because everyone is inside an instance doing missions and also in PvP zones. Also the Architect buildings are very popular instanced zones that unfortunately, may help giving the impession main common zones are empty. 3.- The /sea command shows only a few ppl since pretty much everyone is in hide precisely to avoid the flow of Team/TF requests.- 4.- Let's not forget we are on Christmas holidays and ppl want to spend time with their families singing carols instead of playing computer games.- 5.- Worldwide crisis, ppl don't want to spend money playing games.- 6.- The EU population is increasing, I am living proof of it since I resubbed today.- 7.- If any problem with EU servers (or anything else for that matter) then farmers are to blame, kill them all now and problem sorted (including the abovementioned worldwide crisis, of course).-

You almost had me until you mentioned people in pvp zones. Funny Stuff

lulz it gets better.... How about you don't be a ***** and post on here instead?

No it wasn't TrT, apologies for the confusion. It was aimed at the downie in denile.

"denile" must be an attempt at evoking a river down in Africa.
"denial" is the word you're looking for.

Now if I can just figure out what the heck a downie is...

If you actually knew me, you'd know i used the word i intentionally chose.


So kindly take your grammar/spelling policing role elsewhere.

The EU servers will be 'dead' when there are no players subbing to them. There are. So, it's not 'dead' in any sense.

/search at this present minute shows 56 players on villain chars on Union. Searching on the hero side shows a further 86. That doesn't include people hidden from searches, obviously.

Bear in mind the hour.
Bear in mind the time of year.
Bear in mind the economic climate.
Bear in mind there are still people working today.
Bear in mind your experience and your opinion and perception is different from mine.

It's not dead. People are gaming on the EU servers.

Well, I am on a lazy and a more active server US side. Lets see how its there, where I'd call times worse than 4 to 5 pm for most of Europe on a holiday afternoon, since there it's 7 am to 11 am and most people still have to work (or didnt get up yet maybe).
On Triumph, one of the rather empty servers, it looks worse. 35 red side, and 69 blue side.
But why? A good deal of that is because people dont like empty servers, and moved on to more active ones. Like Virtue, which has currently 132 red side on and 277 blue side. (with the same aspect of people that hide not being included)

So while you can still top a sleepy US server in its morning, the US folks CAN switch to one that is a lot busier already despite the early hour. So they dont have to be frustrated if they'd like a server with more than 86 players on.

Wouldnt you like everyone EU side to have that option too?

To have more options is a good thing. It will never not be. I only reject the opinion that EU is dead. It's just less populous than the US servers.

Merge the EU and US serverbase, and you'll only have more less active servers with a top few with most of the activity when or if people pay to move chars about.

I recognise people want to be where all the action is, but there will be people who don't want to move for various reasons like disbanding supergroups and so forth.

I don't envy whomever is asked to find a solution to the doom.