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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Bill, he hasn't even gone down to the Triumph section and asked what the popular Global channels are these days. A simple post saying something like, "Hey I'm back after 2 years and I'm looking for some global channels to meet people." would have gotten him several channels to try out.
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But hey, its easier to attack the person rather than address the elephant in the room (serious population problems on the low pop servers off prime), right? It also makes you look cool with the in crowd on the forums, eh? Win-win!
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
No one is denying that Triumph is one of the lower pop servers but it is far from being desolate like someone is claiming.
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How about you move a level 50 over to Triumph and start some TFs at 3 or 4am in the morning. Then tell me its not desolate.
My global name is @Cambios, so send me an invite.
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The problem is, that your experience is certainly not universal. The last time I was on at 9am on a weekday (it does happen occasionally), I got asked if I wanted in on a TF. |
Originally Posted by Cambios
I am on TW 2.0 and 2.1 (and was on the original back years ago). I've also been a part of HUB for years (as a member of its founding SG). I've even been an officer from time to time.
They are all great resources. My wife and I were able to get on during prime time last night and got to run our first ITF with some HUBbers (it was a blast). Prime time is ok. Its off prime time that Triumph just slows to a crawl. I'm not saying I have the answers, and I'm not saying free server transfers are the answer. I just wish there was some open discussion about this issue taking place with the devs. If they acknowledged it, that would be a good first step. Then perhaps there's be a groundswell for some of this "globalization" they talked about years ago. |
The core four folks knew each other, then a couple picked up from TW then a couple from people those TW people knew.
Having just come back, it will take a little time for you to regain friends on a similar schedule. Once you have that core of a team for an event, its much easier to recruit to the minimum needed to start.
Hami raid during the middle of the day is likely beyond Triumph off peak, as I would expect the end-game multi-team 'raids' promised for I20 (I'm assuming 24 people like the CoP).
A better search and recruitment functionality is helpful. For example one of the changes when you were gone, was the 'send tell to team leader' option that pops up when you click on someones name.
Little things like that can go a long way.
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that's 3am Pacific IIRC ? (I seem to recall you are West Coast)
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Originally Posted by Cambios
If only that were the case.
How about you move a level 50 over to Triumph and start some TFs at 3 or 4am in the morning. Then tell me its not desolate. My global name is @Cambios, so send me an invite. |
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I'd love for that to be true. I *hope* that's true.|
Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
The problem is, that your experience is certainly not universal. The last time I was on at 9am on a weekday (it does happen occasionally), I got asked if I wanted in on a TF.
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But I can't help but observe that almost every night for the past 2 weeks, this issue came up on TW 2.0 and it was universally agreed (and bemoaned) that Triumph has a serious pop. problem and TFs are nearly impossible to get going off-prime time.
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A better search and recruitment functionality is helpful. For example one of the changes when you were gone, was the 'send tell to team leader' option that pops up when you click on someones name.
Little things like that can go a long way. |
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Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
that's 3am Pacific IIRC ? (I seem to recall you are West Coast)
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During the week, my personal prime time is about 1am to 4am. But that's not set in stone because I'm often working also. But if I'm on and you're starting a TF, give me a yell.
Thanks,
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Originally Posted by Cambios
Look. Either you are lying, or your experience is completely different than the entire server channel for Triumph.
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Originally Posted by Cambios
Most servers are dead with the exception of a few hours in prime time.
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And again, it's not "the entire server channel," it's "one of the popular channels." That doesn't' mean everyone knows about it, or that all of those that know about it use it. As I said, I play on *every* server, I do not have the "server channels" set up - anyone trying to recruit via there is not going to see/hear from me, and like it or not, that will be the case for most people.
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That doesn't explain there being NOBODY for hours anywhere.
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Ooh, awesomesauce! I did not know that, thank you.
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Originally Posted by Honbrid
It does still truncate at 50 and no longer display the total, but you can just search again to get the next batch of fifty people and so on until you get to less than 50 people, filtering unneeded.
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Hypocrisy - N. - The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess;|
Originally Posted by Cambios
Hypocrisy much?
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No hypocrisy done on my part. Now if I had been arguing that I thought merging the servers was a good idea before you did the and then did a complete 180 instead of agreeing with you, that would have been hypocrisy.
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| You just obsessed over posts I made 3+ years ago instead of discussing the issue here. LOL. |
1. As was already shown it takes less than 5 seconds to pull up your post history. Spending 5 seconds to do something isn't remotely obsessive.
2. You just returned to the game a week ago
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3. I haven't been following you to different threads to continue this discussion. The only exchange of posts on this subject has been within the confines of this thread.
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The bold is a load of exaggerated horse manure. The italic suggest your memory is faulty.
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Last couple of weekends I kicked off a TF at midnight Eastern, after running one earlier as well. In addition to TW 2.0 - which I keep in a operate tab these days and only look at if I am recruiting, there are several multi-SG private channels (Grand Coalition, the Hub and I know there are other). For folks in those channels, it seems that those are their primary way of getting teams and groups going. |
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What a lot of us are trying to say is that it's only a serious issue in your mind. The game population is higher now than it has been in a while. Also, many people PREFER quiet servers. If they start merging to make every server like Freedom, they do a great disservice to a portion of their customer base.
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Originally Posted by Cambios
Aside from that, its funny to watch your mental gymnastics that try to completely whitewash a serious issue. But hey, if you only want what is bad for the game, that's on you bro.
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They don't have to merge servers but tossing us free server transfers every once in a while would make a lot of people happy
Same goes for DXP weekend.
/gignore @username is the best feature of this game. It's also probably the least used feature.
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Originally Posted by Nights_Dawn
Hazy is right
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Forbin: LOL. You are a piece of work man. You didn't read a thing I wrote, and to the extent you skimmed, you grossly misunderstood. But hey, don't let the facts slow ya down, bro!
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I'm not even advocating server merging per se. But you'd have to slow down and read what you are replying to in order to know that.
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That's great that population is better than it has been in a while. I imagine this is partially the same factors that lured me to resubscribe, convince my wife to resub, and then recruit 2 friends. So yeah, that's encouraging.|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
What a lot of us are trying to say is that it's only a serious issue in your mind. The game population is higher now than it has been in a while. Also, many people PREFER quiet servers. If they start merging to make every server like Freedom, they do a great disservice to a portion of their customer base.
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But I don't think you fully understand how hard it is on a low pop server like Triumph.
But the thing is, it only really matters for TFs, and TFs matter more than ever with the great incarnate system. This means they have a whole lot of different solutions available to them. Server clustering, global TF teams, etc.
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They don't have to merge servers but tossing us free server transfers every once in a while would make a lot of people happy
Same goes for DXP weekend. |
I've actually seen people moving off of the high population servers. I know I moved a couple of my character off of Freedom during the last two rounds. Protector is my home server and it's always been claimed (by others) that it's a low population server, but you can easily get a TF going at any hour of the day/night.
I don't use the transfers much, but it'd be nice if they made the free transfers an annual event.
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Originally Posted by Cambios
Forbin: LOL. You are a piece of work man.
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That's a healthy attitude to have. If you can maintain it while you are here you'll find that the people you were disagreeing with on one subject can turn around and be defending your point of view on a completely different topic.
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Glad to see you find the responses to you as amusing as we find your original posts.
That's a healthy attitude to have. If you can maintain it while you are here you'll find that the people you were disagreeing with on one subject can turn around and be defending your point of view on a completely different topic. |
Well, that's about the most a guy could hope for, right?
Take care,
Mmm....
I can see where all servers could possibly have "empty like" periods of times in which teaming is difficult to achieve, and some days are harder than others such as Mondays and Wednesdays for some unknown reason. The times I find more difficult to team with is early in the morning but as the day progresses the server population usually increases.
A particular important thing you must do to overcome the "desolate" feel you may be experiencing is the joining of server wide chat channels, such as BMT of Champions or Champions United at the Champions server for instance. I know each server has such over-arching chat channels.
Once you join some of these channels, you will be surprised of how much company you do have even during the early hours of the morning, and that in fact the servers are not as desolate as you may think they are.
Another very important method to find steady company is joining a large SG/VG that is very active, but more importantly with lots of Coalition friends! More so than the SG/VG membership for grouping, is the coalition grouping opportunities which can easily rival or out match the customary channel wide chat groups.
I find in the early hours in the morning, when teaming can be a bit challenging to be an excellent time to catch up with logistics, that is craft IOs, do tips, move influence around, work on base, play the market, document my alt's status for badges, abilities, etc.
I hope these suggestions helps you with your gaming experience
Stormy
I've looked at all these complaints and I've played Triumph both Hero and villain. And villain sucks there. But not nearly as bad as the Guardian server! Holy mother it's so dead there. I've made three villains and one hero there. Hero is a Emp healer and still can't find any one past his his twenty's and frankly I could care less any more (he's boring). My villains I enjoy but be damned if I can group at east twice a month with any of them! Brute, Coruptor and a Veat. The Veat is 30 and the other two are stuck at at 27 and 28. Im tired of solo play. If I turn up the lvl restrictions I tend to get debt more often then playing at "even" lvls and just being a slow grind.
Now, I don't need free transfers handed out. What I would like is the idea for Vet rewards: Every two years you get (1) transfer token per server you have a char on. Of course this might even be doable at every year actually.
And I read there where free transfers given out. But I've been off for over two years and do you keep your transfers like respecs or loose them because I'd sure like to move off of guardian. I looked for the server channel for guardian and I can't seem to get a invite for it let alone find any one who will talk about it on the server?!
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Originally Posted by angelo55
I've looked at all these complaints and I've played Triumph both Hero and villain. And villain sucks there. But not nearly as bad as the Guardian server! Holy mother it's so dead there. I've made three villains and one hero there. Hero is a Emp healer and still can't find any one past his his twenty's and frankly I could care less any more (he's boring). My villains I enjoy but be damned if I can group at east twice a month with any of them! Brute, Coruptor and a Veat. The Veat is 30 and the other two are stuck at at 27 and 28. Im tired of solo play. If I turn up the lvl restrictions I tend to get debt more often then playing at "even" lvls and just being a slow grind.
Now, I don't need free transfers handed out. What I would like is the idea for Vet rewards: Every two years you get (1) transfer token per server you have a char on. Of course this might even be doable at every year actually. And I read there where free transfers given out. But I've been off for over two years and do you keep your transfers like respecs or loose them because I'd sure like to move off of guardian. I looked for the server channel for guardian and I can't seem to get a invite for it let alone find any one who will talk about it on the server?! |
I hope the devs take it under consideration.
It sucks that even if they make it a Vet reward now that I still will have a long way to get that reward since I was inactive for so long. Where almost to our 80's in rewards and I'm only at 33! I can't guarantee I'll care that far into the future about CoX again. I assure you when "Gears of War III" and "Diablo III" drop I aint gonna be here!
I typically *play* on those "low pop" servers
I also, outside of weekends, don't tend to play in "prime time,"
No, it's not name recognition.
I'm just sayin'.