Chat TF/SF channels

I played the game for 2 years and never used chat channels. Then I randomly (maybe not completely random) got invited to one of the best channels (IMO) on Freedom. Wow, what a difference.

I recently came back from taking 2 months off over the Winter Holiday and decided to try Virtue. In looking for a quality chat channel there I have discovered from reading the boards, and asking in game, that all the good ones appear full. Also, from what I understand the moderators cannot clear these of dead characters like you can with SGs. This seems really odd to me. After playing with a good chat channel for SF searches, I find myself unwilling to play without one. Yet I cannot get into one on Virtue it seems.

I have played this game a long time without Chat channels, and I have played it for awhile with a good chat channel. There is literally no comparison. To be able to team with people for months on Strike Force after Strike Force, know you can depend on them, know that you will finish with a full team, probably in much less time than anyone thought possible, is just incredible. Or, without a good channel, taking a couple friends and/or SG mates (if lucky), half a PUG team, and rolling the dice on what is gonna happen.

So, I am very frustrated that I get on Virtue and literally after 2 weeks have not found a channel that is active (much less good). Even more frustrating is to here tell of great channels (I do believe they exist) that are all full.

I have been asking for help lately in the Virtue server area, with similar responses to what I have heard in game.

To me it seems that this particular area of the game was programmed without anyone ever taking the time to realize the game might be successful or popular. Because a good channel is a game changer. Especially with issue 20 creating mega teams of 24. Like I wanna do that trial on a PUG. No way brother. I may have to head back to Freedom and the good channel I have there. But it seems really odd to be stuck on one server because no one programmed a super simple piece of code into the game. They've got graphics that coordinate shadows and water movements, but forgot to make it so the way to find quality teams over years of gaming works well. WTF (this does not mean Win The Future) Its like they left out the kick feature in SGs. Why, because no one would ever fill an SG or use them at all? This is actually worse than messing up the SGs, which I use but care little about. This is how I find if any of my gang of a couple hundred quality players are online and up for a quality Task Force run. Believe me, that part of the game I use. Like, anytime I am not currently in a TF.