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Fears: Still not quashed

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-03-09 15:59 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
Ah that makes sense, I just saw Sky Raiders and Sharkhead and figured he meant SM.
That TF is so obscure and the contact for it so faceless I'm surprised anyone even remembers it. I have NEVER run this TF, I have NEVER seen it advertised or heard anyone talk about it... I don't even know what it is about Hell, I can't even remember if the guy looks like a Wolf Spider or like an Arbiter.

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Originally Posted by Silencer7 View Post
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.
To a large extent, that's the problem. City of Heroes has never been a large-population game, even by PlayNC standards. So it seems a bit... Odd to me that they're designing larger and larger team encounters.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

 

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Originally Posted by Elric View Post
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.
I want to bring up a bit of context here. When I say "lower-level," I usually mean sub-20. I don't swap characters on a whim, meaning the only time I'll swap a character is if I'm putting my current one on hiatus and picking a new one to focus on. What this means is that on a new character, I can go from 1 to about 25-26 before I lose interest and switch focus. I've done the 1-26 trip about five times since I19.5 came out, and haven't done much else.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

 

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I don't even know what it is about
Appropriately for the Sharkhead SF, it's about the Leviathan. The end boss is Calystix the Shaper and the Eye of the Leviathan.

 

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As I've said in pretty much every "can't find a team" post since oh, 2004, if you are not doing everything in your power to find or form a team, you have no grounds to complain.

I'd suggest the following:

* Join an active SG if you aren't in one
* Look for people to play with in your Server forum
* Join the popular chat channels for your server and form teams through those

Also, the devs are now giving people a reason to dust off their old characters, which many people have been looking for for years. Ultimately, the approach the devs are taking makes this game more attractive to a wider range of play styles, and that is a very good thing for the health of the game.

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