Fears: Still not quashed

A number of weeks ago, I made a thread voicing my concern over the lack of willingness (At least on my server) to do any non-Incarnate based activity, or generally anything that wasn't high level.

My general team-finding incompetence may have had something to do with that, but it has been several weeks now and I have been more pro-active in my searches.

And yet, teams are still a rare thing for me. At least, at a low level.

I suspect that this will continue until Incarnates is done, but how long will that take? Months (Issue 20)? I fear even a number of more years.

Though there are two new TF's announced in the level 20-40 area, I doubt it will affect the amount of people doing Incarnate based activities very much.

I've considered taking a break, however, having cancelled my subscriptions to any other MMO and having no new games to play on my Xbox or PS3, i'm left with little choice.

Finally, I would like to add to any sort of 'Official' reading this, that I subscribed to this game because I -HATE- endgame. I like making alts. I don't want to be lumped with the same two characters until Incarnates washes over sometime in the distant future. Don't become what I've tried to escape from.

./endrant

Union. Non-50 things are advertised very occasionally, but they don't get much notice. Last time I did a Posi1 advertised on the global channels, it got 4 people. Four.

Before Incarnates, something like that would be an instant sell-out.

Well, good thing Posi only needs 3 peeps then.
I understand where you're coming from, but surely you can start building a group of people with the same interests as you and play with them, yes?

If this trouble is extremely recent, then it can in part be blamed on the fact that Pokemon and Dragon Age 2 came out this week. >Everything's< going to have a bit of a manpower shortage, and I doubt CoH is the only MMO to be experiencing it.

Don't get me wrong, I like playing with friends. But sometimes, they're either occupied, or I want to team -now- opposed to later. Sometimes a duo just doesn't cut it for me.

Oh, and just now, on one of the global channels, someone suggested level 20+ teaming. They got no response. Not one. I would have responded, but like I said, duoing I find dull. I like groups. But finding these like-minded people only happens to me once in a blue moon.

And why don't I friend them and play with them all the time? Because this is an MMO, and I want to play with more than just the same 3 people time and time again. If I wanted to play with 2 friends, i'd hop onto my Xbox.

I'm not a psychic, I don't know who likes to duo and who doesn't.


Edit: Right, i'm tired, aching and disappointed because my chief entertainment of the night was disappointing in every sense of the word. Just let the thread disappear, I really .. really cannot be bothered with what is effectively bashing my head off of a brick wall.

Try this image:
A bunch of boys all awkwardly "hanging out" near the wall of a school dance, waiting for one of their number to be the first to get up the nerve and ask a girl, or better yet, be asked by one.

I'm not on union. I'm on The Stepchild aka Pinnacle. I have seen, advertised in global channels over the past 3 days:

- Positron 1 and 2.
- Lady Grey
- A Manticore
- A Citadel
- Hero and Villain Tips
- A Hami Raid
- Five Flavors of ITF
- Various AV help calls.

Now, I am not saying that this applies to you, but I have seen on these same global channels people complaining that they can't get a decent team because everyone is running WSF and Incarnate content. So, there's a blind spot in a few mirrors.

If you really want a decent team, make one. People will join. Yeah, you have to ask and sometimes even PM people you don't know all that well, and yeah it's a hassle, and yeah if you were to advertise WSF, you'd fill in 2 minutes, BUT... you can still get a team.

Most of the WSF (except Tin Mage and Apex) you can join with a low level toon and get BEAUCOUP experience. Then, right after it ends, ask people to stick around and do... x.

Lack of teaming starts with lack of willing team leaders, not with content.

It's funny. I miss farms...there I said it! I miss em! I hate em, and I miss em. At least then I could take a toon I enjoy and TF with everyone else who is doing it.

Then again I left a month after AE opened up because of lack of teaming...funny how that all works out in one violent circle of...circle like violence.

I think some people have missed the idea behind the WST. Which is to get people running the older TFs/SFs again. Just two weeks ago was the Silver Mantis task force so if you were on a lower level character it should have been pretty easy to find a team. This week while not super low is also not 50 content is the Ice Mistral SF for villains. The Operative Renault SF will be a WST soon as well. It should be pretty easy to find teams to do all of them because of the mixed player base.

Fears of what? That when you finally get a character to level 50 you don't have to retire them and make yet another alt? And the term, End Game, has nothing to do with the addition of content for level 50 characters. In fact, I call it Beginning Game (for my 50's). We've always had traditional end game raid content (Hami Raids, Mother Ship Raids), and no one ever worried about how that would negatively impact the game.

I'm actually drifting back to playing many of my lower level characters (alt-o-holic is me), now that I have had a chance to play some of my 50's again. And I'm having more fun with them now than ever before knowing that when I finally get them to 50 they will still be fun to play with the Incarnate system content. Give it some time, I'm sure most people who are spending most of their time playing their old 50's will come back to playing their lowbies again once the shiny starts to wear off.

This sounds more like a server population issue than a content issue. On virtue I still see lower-level TFs and teams form pretty regularly, especially when a lower level TF is the weekly target.