Welcome to Victory and How to Find Teams

Greetings! This thread is a little welcome to playing on Victory. It will give you an idea of what the forum community is like, and how to find teams in game.

The Forums:

Feel free to post things and respond to threads in this forum. We're all a little grumpy and sarcastic, but we can still be fun despite that. We usually form up teams in game, but you'll often see people posting for task forces forming, PVP events, PERC events (the Player Event Resource Committee regularly runs events in game and on the forums). Join in as much as you feel comfortable.

Finding Teams:

Throughout every server in City of Heroes/City of Villains, teams are forming all the time and running story arcs, Task Forces/Strike Forces, etc. However, you need to know how to get in on all of this action. The first and best choice on every server is to join its channels. These channels are hosted by various player groups. Some are private, some are public. The best ones to join first off are the large ones for forming teams. The channels on Victory that you should use are:

-Victory Badges (if you were here when we had Victory Badges 2009, that channel has been discontinued, only use Victory Badges now)
-Victory Forum
-Victory Limitless


There are people that use all three of those channels, just one, or two of them. Each of them has its own personality, but feel free to ask questions and form teams in any of them. Just for a little background, Victory Badges was formed mainly to create teams for badges and TFs and focuses mainly on that. Victory Forum has much the same function, but also features a lot of our forumites, who can be a chatty bunch from time to time on game matters, among other topics. Victory Limitless was created with a mind to chatter about creating better builds, forming teams for tougher tasks, etc.

As noted, however, each channel can and should be used for creating and finding teams. Feel free to join them and join teams.

To join any channel, simply type "/chanjoin " and then the name of the server. Spelling is important, so get it right! Once you're on the channel, make sure that you enable that channel in your communications tabs (just right click on the tab to modify the channel's settings). If you don't do that, you won't be able to see people talking in those channels.

Forming Teams:

Just as important as finding teams is forming teams. Don't be shy! Use the channels mentioned before, use the game's search function, and broadcast when you are forming teams. People are out there wanting to team (oftentimes just not willing to form a team themselves), and you forming teams creates a better and more active community. So don't sit on your duff! It's quite easy to announce that you are forming teams, and copy and paste your message across channels or to various tells. As a frequent team leader, I can attest to the ease of doing this.

In the end, Victory is only as great as the people playing here, and their willingness to form and join teams. So help out as much as you can!

Good additions, Ham. Does hitting the up arrow basically paste in your previous message? If so, I didn't know about that, and that's even easier than using ctrl + c and ctrl + v.

GP - PM the mods, see if you can get this as a sticky.

I did the minute after I posted this. Mod 8/Ocho has not yet done it. I'll pester him again in a day or so if it doesn't happen, as this really would help. If he doesn't respond to that, we can bombard his inbox with PMs from us... that'll do the trick.

If I don't post for awhile after the attempt, he may have banned me... or I'm just on vacation. Hehe.

Gratz on the sticky, GP!

Now people will complain they didn't know how to find a team because this post isn't with the regular Forum traffic.

Grats GP. Now we have to see you name FOREVER!!!

Apparently Voo likes being forced to run to the mission entrance, rather than the devs using the handy exit button. To each their own, I guess!

And meh on the up key thing- if that's a limit to my former knowledge. Ctrl + c and ctrl + v works as well. Options are nice, as I pointed out earlier. But it wouldn't be Victory if we didn't have to discuss this in the welcome thread, heh. *rolls eyes*

Penny, you just can't be rid of me! Mwahahaha!

Great post GP.

I will be sure to share this with new people I see on the game on a regular basis.

Joined channel as @Tam-Rael, looking forward to teaming with you all.

An unsilence would be helpful as well :-P

Depending on which channel(s) you joined, you can send a tell to one of the people listed in the channel list who have a star next to their name; they are an OP and can do that unsilencing for you. I didn't think VF was auto-silence anymore. I know I wasn't when I rejoined it

(is it a star? since I've been banned from being an OP, I don't remember *cries*)

I've already forgotten about most of you

I don't think any of the three main Victory chat channels are auto silence or private any more.

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Did you set up a tab to include the chat in it? Did you see others talking in it? I think you get a message if you are really silenced and try chatting it up.

I've already forgotten about most of you

Yep, I wasn't seeing any chat in the channel either.

I check it over again when I get home in an hour or so.

Better question;
Victory Forum, or Victory Forums?

Victory Forums is a troll channel.

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'Victory Forum' actually, with the MOTD by you Ham.

Edit: Its working now actually, not sure what happened earlier.

Ham, you don't have Victory Forum set to auto-silence on joining anymore? If so, I didn't know you changed that. I can adjust the OP if that is the case.

GP, thanks for adding the Victory Limitless channel to your OP.

No problem. I want to make sure everyone can find and form teams, and channels are a big part of that.

Thanks for this.

I've been an off again, on again player since launch and am coming back off of a year and a half hiatus (damn you, real life!). I resubbed over the last weekend and have been astonished at just how barren the world is, even at peak hours. I can only imagine what a genuinely new player would think if they logged in and saw no one else, saw little to no chat, and didn't know about these channels.

I knew about Victory Badges from before, but I would have never known about the rest of these channels if it weren't for this thread.