Discussion: Are you ready for Issue 18: Shades of Gray?
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Posted on: 2010-08-10 11:04 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Originally Posted by Acemace
It is nice for those people inclined, like my wife, but the cynic in me sees all these free transfers as a stealthy way to allow players to move from unpopulated servers over to those more active. The same thing would be accomplished via the dreaded server merge, only players would be forced and it carries the aroma of death.
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1) I called the paranoid lunatic conspiracy ravings about this earlier in the thread. Back off, paranoid lunatic conspiracy ravings are mine in this thread. You wanted them, you should have been here earlier.
2) Paranoid lunatic conspiracy ravings sure are simpler than actually thinking. For example, a little bit of imagination would suggest that they wanted to allow people to clear spots on their accounts to make Praetorians and give a chance to people returning to check out GR who maybe weren't here for the Winter server transfers (which as we all saw, led to every server except Freedom and Virtue being shut down because no one was left on the others).
Yup, it's all sinister.
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I'm curious about this as well. If anything but Virtue & Freedom are "dead" and "unpopulated", who the heck are all these players on Protector that keep forming TF's at all hours? And who the heck were those other 7 people on that villain team I was on Monday morning? Must be figments of my imagination, just like the global channels that have a couple hundred people in them.|
Originally Posted by GMan3
Hey, can anyone tell me what servers exactly are dead? I only ask because I was told my primary server, Guardian, is one of them, yet I never seem to have a problem getting a team or even a 8 toon TF/SF together at almost any time of day or night. Would be nice to know though.
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I actually found it quite amusing that each of the 3 Protector global channels I am on routinely have more players online than the one Freedom global channel I have in my list.
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Oh, people actually playing the game don't count. All that counts is tons of people standing around doing nothing. |
Panzerwaffen needs criteria: I'm curious about this as well. If anything but Virtue & Freedom are "dead" and "unpopulated", who the heck are all these players on Protector that keep forming TF's at all hours? And who the heck were those other 7 people on that villain team I was on Monday morning? Must be figments of my imagination, just like the global channels that have a couple hundred people in them. I actually found it quite amusing that each of the 3 Protector global channels I am on routinely have more players online than the one Freedom global channel I have in my list. |
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Originally Posted by theOcho
During this period Server Transfers will be unlimited. So transfer as much as you want!
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Can we expect anything like cross-server mission instancing or cross-server pvp in the NEAR future?
Yeah infinity is pretty nice, decent group of people in some global channels make getting a group together for missions/TFs and badge/monster hunting a snap.
A couple of questions:
1) What happens to my 1-man SG base if I transfer? Keep it or lose it?
2) What server(s) have equally active Red & Blue sides?
3) What server(s) is big enough for weekday/weekend teaming (abundant) WITHOUT blackouts on 2x XP weekend?
Thanks!
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That almost seems ungrateful given that we get unlimited - yes unlimited - transfers between Union and Defiant... |
Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
Anything EU side
 I dearly wish they'd open EU-US transfers and let me pull those characters I've put 4.5 years of play time over to the US. |
Or take one of your 50s off to see if an IO'd build helps cope with French or German translation.
I can see it being darn useful for NA players, but, as per the Xmas transfers, the whelm-mark is about 6 feet above my head.
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Thanks for the nice birthday (Aug 22) gift!
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Originally Posted by Avatea
Free Character Transfers for a limited time only!
To take advantage of this new issue launch, character transfers within one set of servers (North American OR European) will be free from Tuesday, August 17 to Monday, August 23. This is the perfect opportunity for you to hop between servers depending on your mood or interests and meet other heroes and villains to enjoy brand new game features with! |
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Lose it.
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Originally Posted by Carnal
1) What happens to my 1-man SG base if I transfer? Keep it or lose it?
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Justice is the next most populous after Freedom and Virtue, if the sorting at login is to be believed. It's consistently near them at the last of the list.
Next most jumps at random. Triumph, strangely, jumps from least to 3rd sometimes.
So, it might be a good idea to try to make it 3 active by going to Justice.
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Originally Posted by ChaosExMachina
Justice is the next most populous after Freedom and Virtue, if the sorting at login is to be believed. It's consistently near them at the last of the list.
Next most jumps at random. Triumph, strangely, jumps from least to 3rd sometimes. So, it might be a good idea to try to make it 3 active by going to Justice. |
(Is it safe to assume that most of the activity happens at the Blue spectrum of each server?)
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Thanks for the nice birthday (Aug 22) gift!
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For Triumph I'd say about 60% Blue / 40% Red. It changes from time to time though (sometimes as much as 80/20).|
Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
(Is it safe to assume that most of the activity happens at the Blue spectrum of each server?)
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Originally Posted by GlassGoblin
Happy pre-birthday!
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But that will change come i18 once the markets are merged because Redside content is much higher quality.
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Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
Thanks.
(Is it safe to assume that most of the activity happens at the Blue spectrum of each server?) |
Iv'e never taken advantage of this event before, how do you go about transfering for free? When I go to transfer my character, it still shows up as 9.99.
Could anyone be of some assistence?
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Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm
But that will change come i18 once the markets are merged because Redside content is much higher quality.
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I think it'll just show the price as $0.00 once the free period starts.
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Originally Posted by iBones
Iv'e never taken advantage of this event before, how do you go about transfering for free? When I go to transfer my character, it still shows up as 9.99.
Could anyone be of some assistence? |
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That will only affect those who were staying away from redside because of the markets. The rest of us that barely set foot there have many and varied reasons not to play there, all of which still apply.
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The_Coming_Storm quacks: But that will change come i18 once the markets are merged because Redside content is much higher quality. |
Dec out.
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It doesn't start until August 17th. It should be clear by then.
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iBones is eager: Iv'e never taken advantage of this event before, how do you go about transfering for free? When I go to transfer my character, it still shows up as 9.99. Could anyone be of some assistence? |
Dec out.
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Originally Posted by Carnal
A couple of questions:
1) What happens to my 1-man SG base if I transfer? Keep it or lose it? 2) What server(s) have equally active Red & Blue sides? 3) What server(s) is big enough for weekday/weekend teaming (abundant) WITHOUT blackouts on 2x XP weekend? Thanks! |
1) The roof gets blown off and it gets relocated to Faultline
2) Only the Korean one as both sides have a population of zilch.
3) All the EU ones. And I suspect everything US side except Freedon and possibly Virtue
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I'd just like to say thanks to the Devs for the server transfers in particular. With 4 kids, 2 parents, multiple accounts and 200 or so characters between us things get a little chaotic and this makes it very easy to sort things out. It was great back at the beginning of the year and it will help us keep things together now too.
...and that's on top of the anticipated greatness of GR...
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Does anyone know if this sort of thing happens more on specific servers? :
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=210992
I'm really intrigued by the idea that devs and moderators might be generating story events on certain servers, and would gladly transfer some characters over if a server sees that sort of thing regularly.
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It happens on all the servers, we wouldn't want to leave anyone out!
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Originally Posted by D-Void
Does anyone know if this sort of thing happens more on specific servers? :
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=210992 I'm really intrigued by the idea that devs and moderators might be generating story events on certain servers, and would gladly transfer some characters over if a server sees that sort of thing regularly. |
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I dearly wish they'd open EU-US transfers and let me pull those characters I've put 4.5 years of play time over to the US.