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Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-04-30 17:19 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Steel_Shaman View Post
OK, I just did a search.
I limited the range to 21-30 and got 3 people, including myself. I then searched for 41-50 and got 20 people. Only 2 of those are not 50. Those results are pretty typical for what I've been seeing lately. During primetime the number of lowbies is about the same as right now, and the number of 50's is double what I'm seeing at the moment. I get what you're saying about the list truncating itself when you get a lot of results, but I don't think that's what's happening.

<shrug> It is what it is. The Incarnate system is the new shiny, and the majority of people are doing that. I get that. I don't like it, but I get it.

I did a search *just* now, from levels 1-20, there were more than 50 matches. From 21-40, again, more than 50 matches. Also keep in mind, that I'm a villain only player so I don't get to see the more populated side of the game.

For fun, doing a search in a 10 level range:

1-10: 26
11-20: 31
21-30: More than 50
31-40: More than 50
41-50: More than 50

Granted, it's primetime but I also can't see hidden people.

 

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Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
The Anti-Matter reactor Trial will be going into closed beta in May, and will be released separately from I21.
Yep that right, they also said they going to dish these incarnate trials out as soon as possible and not wait until a new Issue came out.

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They add new Content all the time, the problem is we keep playing them alot and get burn out by doing so. I mean they added two new tf and last issue there been some new Story mish and two new tf. I think they doing a good job with giving us new content, until new trials come out and Junk just be Patience and find something to do.

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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
yeah it does add up, between the 3 toons ive done this on i spent roughly 200-350 mil inf per toon to unlock all 4 slots

counting the 2 rare components i bought for 100 mil a piece im looking at have thrown almost a billion info into the virtual graveyard for the incarnate stuff lol
across...2 characters, I've spent around 400 million, it would be more if I spent money to convert rares

 

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it's not the fact we need new content but it's simply that the incarnate content, compared to what has gone before, is shudderingly sub-standard - the only things that are less good are maybe the Shadow Shard TFs because they are horrible time sinks that were added to take time out the game when there was a lot less to do.

They have several problems but the biggest is they are way too short, the missions lack importance for the level of character and the stories are pretty poor, especially BAF. That's before we get onto rewards... several unwanted or un-needed new currencies. Plus the rewards from those trials make the existing content near meaningless. Whereas an ITF could be made to be a challenge it's mostly horribly boring as we was a succession of judgements vaporise lag hill.

This game was so much better before end game. New content will not fix that


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Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
The Anti-Matter reactor Trial will be going into closed beta in May, and will be released separately from I21.

And the Underground Hamidon Trail too.

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Originally Posted by Rikis View Post
I did a search *just* now, from levels 1-20, there were more than 50 matches. From 21-40, again, more than 50 matches. Also keep in mind, that I'm a villain only player so I don't get to see the more populated side of the game.
I'm not sure what server you play on that has more than 50 matches across all level ranges, much less across smaller sections I just know that the ones I play on - Victory and Pinnacle - never seem to muster as many. Usually, the total people online are fewer than 50 altogether. And that's hero-side. Praetoria usually displays around 20, if that, and I haven't checked villain-side recently.

Also, I realise that NOW is not prime time in the US, being somewhere between 1 AM and 4 AM on a work day, but it's mid-day my time. Running a search for other people right now on Victory hero-side reveals 23 people total. These have a more even split in levels, however with 9 50s, 11 40+, 3 20- and the rest in the 20-40 range. My character right now is level 27, and I see three other characters within three levels of me, one of whom is solo with a "pst; blind invites ignored" comment, which usually means he/she would join if I asked.

Not bad that bad, actually.

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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 Samuel_Tow View Post
I'm not sure what server you play on that has more than 50 matches across all level ranges, much less across smaller sections I just know that the ones I play on - Victory and Pinnacle - never seem to muster as many. Usually, the total people online are fewer than 50 altogether. And that's hero-side. Praetoria usually displays around 20, if that, and I haven't checked villain-side recently.

Also, I realise that NOW is not prime time in the US, being somewhere between 1 AM and 4 AM on a work day, but it's mid-day my time. Running a search for other people right now on Victory hero-side reveals 23 people total. These have a more even split in levels, however with 9 50s, 11 40+, 3 20- and the rest in the 20-40 range. My character right now is level 27, and I see three other characters within three levels of me, one of whom is solo with a "pst; blind invites ignored" comment, which usually means he/she would join if I asked.

Not bad that bad, actually.
I wonder: Are you clicking search twice when you see numbers like "50"? If you click search afterwards, you see the rest of the users online.

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Originally Posted by Rikis View Post
I did a search *just* now, from levels 1-20, there were more than 50 matches. From 21-40, again, more than 50 matches. Also keep in mind, that I'm a villain only player so I don't get to see the more populated side of the game.

For fun, doing a search in a 10 level range:

1-10: 26
11-20: 31
21-30: More than 50
31-40: More than 50
41-50: More than 50

Granted, it's primetime but I also can't see hidden people.
I have not seen numbers like that in each of the level ranges in a very long time. I would assume you play on Virtue or Freedom, yes?

 

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Originally Posted by Magnarsh View Post
I wonder: Are you clicking search twice when you see numbers like "50"? If you click search afterwards, you see the rest of the users online.
The breakdown I posted was not truncated and not based on any parameter. This was simply a search of all people that were displayable to me, as a hero standing in Steel Canyon. I suspect I might see more people were I in a co-op zone, but I'm not sure.

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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 Scarlet Shocker View Post
This game was so much better before end game. New content will not fix that
I just have to ask. What 'better' parts of the game were removed when the 'end game' content was added?

Since i20 my play style hasn't really changed. I've just now started to dabble with Incarnate Trials on a couple of my 50's. I'm in no rush. I still spend the majority of my time on my lower level alts. I'm sure the devs are working their butts off creating new content for the Incarnate system that addresses many of the players concerns. Such as additional Trials. Trials that can be soloed or small teamed, etc.

I can't think of any MMORPG that is 7 years old that gets this much love and attention from its developers. Seven years of content, with more coming all the time.