Where Is Everyone?!

I played the game a year or two ago, and just started playing again last night. I'm loving running around and beating stuff up, but where is eveyones else?! I don't think I've even seen another hero yet. I'm on the Champion server, is there another server that's more populated or are the starting areas on all servers like this?

Damn you memphis and your faster fingers!

Welcome back, Caverous

Thanks for the quick replies

I know a lot of the game is instanced, and my sleep schedule is pretty wacked, but I figured I'd see some other newbie toons sitting around the trainers or something. I just wanted to check to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong -.-

Virtue and Freedom tend to be the most populated servers. Welcome back btw.

Ad hominem. Attacking the person instead of debating the point. Logical fallacy.

To the OP: I play on Champion but have had reduced game time due to reality's intrusion on its virtual cousin. Most people are on higher characters now, as a lot of people who've stuck with the game have leveled even on alternate characters.

Champion's BMT channel is good for getting in on badge/task force/strike force teams, which still go here and there. Pick up groups, unfortunately, are very difficult to be picked up on. Most people play with folks they know: but you can still see who isn't teamed, and see if they'd play, or politely inquire of teamed folks if they wouldn't mind a tag along.

Oh, by and by: with the new leveling system, you won't see many stay in early zones for long. You can get up to, and even pass Kings Row's level in an evening. After a couple weeks, people are all over the place, from Striga to peregrine. If you need help, I've found a lot of Champion's players are vets/know-it-alls of the game, so they'll lend a hand should you be polite. Oh, and Champion's redside seems to have dwindled, so it's better for hero teaming if that's what you're after. (I still dig the red)

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Everybody is too busy hanging out on the CO forums and complaining about Viboria being Paid Content.

To add a helpful post for Caverous, here are a few teaming suggestions.

1. Form your own teams. When you search, you will see others.
2. Join your server's chat channels. For one reason or another, these have developed as the way to find teams. Go to the Champion server to ask about these, but there are a few like "Champion BMT" that you can join. Then you'll see that plenty of people are around at all hours, forming teams... though you will have quiet spots late at night in the US, of course.

I'm mostly on Victory, but I know I see plenty of people running around on Champion, and as I have joined their channels, I know there are plenty of people on them making teams. You may just have been in a quieter area (or on at a quiet time)... hanging around in AP, or the market in Steel or Talos will show more than a few people running around. Paragon City has its hot spots, as well as the instanced missions brought up earlier.

Finding a good server chat channel, as suggested above, is the way to go.

OP: if you happen to move to Freedom, shoot me a global tell at @Leandro, I can get you on a global chan that's pretty much always doing something.