What's thr deal with areana?7

I played this game for 4 months over a year ago and i just reopened my sub this weekend as i'm checking out all the old mmo's i've already payed for but haven't played in a while (if anyone wants to know, SWG is worse now than ever before). Back when i was active in CoH i never had the chance to check out the PvP side of the game, i had que'd up for a few arena battles but none ever took place. Same thing happened last night. I que'd up for a whole bunch of fights with multiple characters of almost every level range and i never set foot in a single fight. when i looked on the arena fight setup screen i chose fights that said they would start ASAP. What does ASAP mean? When i was in the army ASAP stood for As Soon As Possible but i'm pretty sure it doesn't mean that in CoH because i think i'm still que'd up for a few fights over 9 hours later.

What i'm wondering is weather i came to the wrong place for my PvP fix? Last night was a SATURDAY night and i couldn't get into a single arena fight, are the arena's cross server and if the aren't why not? Not one of the servers hit more than light pop last night. I hope the open world PvP is better but after last nights arena debacle i'm not holding my breath. Oh yeah, how do i display the time in game? i saw some matches with specific times entered but i couldn't figure out how to tell server time in game.

The thing is, this game really isn't about PvP. You'll find a few, people who enjoy it, but many here are PvE oriented. The Arena auto-matches don't ever seem to work properly, so unless you're starting one yourself don't expect to play any matches.

For open world PvP, the Freedom server has the biggest PvP crowd; But even then it's not much. Most PvP zones are active at night and usually on weekends. Recluses Victory is the most active, since it is the highest level. Bloody Bay is not as active, but there may be a few people. Sirens Call is the same as Bloody Bay, and Warburg is a ghost town.

Why is there such a low interest in PvP? Well, PvP received a major change during Issue 13, much so that many veteran PvP'ers left because it changed so drastically. It's nothing at all like the PvE game. Even if you can solo on +4/x8 players in PvE, you'll probably be destroyed by the elite PvP crowd. People were also chased away by the less-than-ideal PvP players. If you were killed you could expect to hear things like "lol u suk lrn2ply noob." or "haha loser I pwned u! u shuld quit game nao."

And for the sake of readers, please break up your post into paragraphs. The giant Wall'O'Text is very difficult to read.

Thanks for the info on the PvP scene and sorry about the wall o' text, it looked ok to me while i was writing it, but i went back and cleaned it up. That's too bad about the lack of PvP action in CoH. I just figured it would be the most popular part of CoH since the setting is super heroes and everything. I intended this post to be in the PvP forum and have reposted it there so please feel free to kill this post MODS.

The arena fights that are listed by the game are never used. You need to get in on a player-created arena fight if you want to do anything with it. If you want to get in on an arena fight, use the /arena chat channel (I don't think it's in a chat tab by default, so you'll have to edit a tab to add it) to drum up some interest. Or ask your supergroup. Or as your server's global channel(s). Or go down into the PVP forum section and ask.

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