Teams - where are they?
By
Bookkeeper_Jay,
Posted on: 2011-05-08 09:56 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
What level range? Quite a few folks are going to be on 50s doing incarnate trials. Makes the pickings a bit sparse for anything else at times. (Try soloing a zombie invasion on a mid-teens controller.)
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Welcome Back. Are you part of any global chat channels? This is how most teams are formed these days.|
Originally Posted by Kid_Elemental
Hi folks,
I've been having a really hard time finding teams. I'm on the Infinity server. I just resubscribed a couple days ago, after taking a break for 1-2 years. Last I played, I could usually get a team together in 5-10 minutes. Now that I'm back, I tried the usual routes: * Going to zones appropriate for my level, and using broadcast. * Using team finder to see who's in a mission, and sending them a tell to join the team. * Trying to build a team from the (scant!) few un-teamed people in my level range. I've tried this with my low, mid and 50 characters, and had no luck. Where are all the teams? Are people doing content I'm just not aware of, and that's where I should go? Or maybe the Inifinity server is just too low on population to support ad hoc teams anymore? Should I wait for the next free server transfer and move? Thanks! |
I prefer Infinity Badges 2 for the public channels. There are others but the names escape me at this time.
Many people are focusing on their 50's right now and running the incarnate Trials. Infinity tends to meet in the RWZ to form these trials except on Sunday nights when they move to pocket d so the weekly scheduled ships raids are not crowded out of the RWZ.
Head on down to the Infinity sub-forum and say hello. There should be a listing of some of the near term planned events for the server from TF/SF runs to the myriad of events that PERC puts on.
We just had a player auction and right now they have a weekly trivia game running.
Hope you have fun!
Global: @Kelig
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There's a large focus on running Incarnate Trials on level 50 characters right now. |
Originally Posted by Kid_Elemental
Hi folks,
I've been having a really hard time finding teams. I'm on the Infinity server. I just resubscribed a couple days ago, after taking a break for 1-2 years. Last I played, I could usually get a team together in 5-10 minutes. Now that I'm back, I tried the usual routes: * Going to zones appropriate for my level, and using broadcast. * Using team finder to see who's in a mission, and sending them a tell to join the team. * Trying to build a team from the (scant!) few un-teamed people in my level range. I've tried this with my low, mid and 50 characters, and had no luck. Where are all the teams? Are people doing content I'm just not aware of, and that's where I should go? Or maybe the Inifinity server is just too low on population to support ad hoc teams anymore? Should I wait for the next free server transfer and move? Thanks! |
The teams are usually being put together in RWZ or Pocket D.
Note: You MUST have the Going Rogue expansion to run the Incarnate Trials, or do anything else incarnate related. If you do not have it, you cannot join trial teams.
(yes, it's worth paying for)
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
I try to run at least 2 TFs a night if I can. Look me up at @Bookkeeper Jay and watch the Infinity TF channels.
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Bill and the others are right. The I20 Incarnate stuff is less than a month old and the "new" hasn't worn off it yet so almost everybody with 50's is grinding the hell out of them.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
What level range? Quite a few folks are going to be on 50s doing incarnate trials. Makes the pickings a bit sparse for anything else at times. (Try soloing a zombie invasion on a mid-teens controller.)
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Global channels are a great way to meet people online and get teams. One that tries to help people on all servers is the Mentor Project.
I'll be running the new Trials later this evening on Infinity - so you're welcoem to join in 
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have you joined the main global channel? i'm not familiar with infinity, but if you head to the subforum, there should be threads that tell you what the most active globals are. they tend to not only be good for teaming, but good for reliable, competent teaming. one warning is that right now a lot of people who had a backlog of 50s is probably running trials, so you may initially find a lot of people occupied there. if you have a 50, that may be an option to look into.
You answered it yourself, you are on Infinity. Go to Freedom or Virtue. 
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I'm on that one and like it. I'm also on:|
Originally Posted by joebartender
I prefer Infinity Badges 2 for the public channels. There are others but the names escape me at this time.
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Inf Badge Seeker - A 'badge' channel, but all TF's and many arcs have badges.
Infinity Hamidon - A 'raiding' channel, but general teaming the other 160 hours of the week.
AE Anonymous - For all teaming EXCEPT AE stuff.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Global channels are a great way to meet people online and get teams. One that tries to help people on all servers is the Mentor Project.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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Unless you want to enjoy yourself, in which case, avoid Freedom. (Unless you LIKE being stuck in a room packed with kindergarteners all on sugar rushes and screaming at each other. In which case, you should feel right at home there.)
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Originally Posted by Darej
You answered it yourself, you are on Infinity. Go to Freedom or Virtue.
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Originally Posted by Darej
You answered it yourself, you are on Infinity. Go to Freedom or Virtue.
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Watch it...
eh let it slide, there were constructive answers, focus on them.
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Funny, I've actually been playing a bit less recently (not anyone's fault but myself) but the times I do, teaming is rather slow going. And this is on Freedom.|
Originally Posted by Darej
You answered it yourself, you are on Infinity. Go to Freedom or Virtue.
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I restarted my corruptor at lvl 21 when the new incarnate slots first game out and so far I've got her to lvl 41. *sigh* And all I'm really trying to do is get her to 50 so I can hurry up and start the incarnate stuff up on her.
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.....that's just mean.
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Originally Posted by Darej
You answered it yourself, you are on Infinity. Go to Freedom or Virtue.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
Based on above comments, does that mean that Infinity Badges has been replaced by Infinity Badges 2?
Ewwww, who would wanna play on Virchoo or Freedumb? Infinity is my home server for heroes... but I have recently been focusing on Justice since I have been villaining a lot recently.
Right now Infinity is the fourth most populated server (behind Pinnacle, Virtue, Freedom) and there is... 43 people showing up heroside on /search, 21 of which are level 50s. There's a grand total of 11 people (including me) under level 45.
I can see why the other servers seem nicer, you can't meet jerks if there isn't anybody else to play with in the first place.
(Yes, yes, I know, most of you are USA! USA! and don't give a damn about these hours of the day. And there's obviously three hundred players on /hide. Please carry on with the Virtue/Freedom bashing.)
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Oops, I didn't catch that in the initial mention and I quoted it that way.|
Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Based on above comments, does that mean that Infinity Badges has been replaced by Infinity Badges 2?
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I'm not logged in now, so I can't check, but I think the name is actually Infinity Badges 2.0. Hopefully someone will be along shortly to confirm or refute this.
Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
but I have recently been focusing on Justice since I have been villaining a lot recently.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
One thing which concerns me is that the developers seem to have made it an objective to keep people perpetually and constantly interested in end game. So even when the current "stuff" grows old and stale, they'll be trying to add more. More raids, more powers, more unlocks and so forth.
I'm not sure the current over-interest in end game will ever end, or at the very least will end any time soon. And I'm not sure it's intended to.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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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They've added non-end game content for the first 6-1/2 years of this game. Now they're adding some. They have some catching up to do on end game content, so it makes sense that they'd focus on it.|
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
One thing which concerns me is that the developers seem to have made it an objective to keep people perpetually and constantly interested in end game. So even when the current "stuff" grows old and stale, they'll be trying to add more. More raids, more powers, more unlocks and so forth.
I'm not sure the current over-interest in end game will ever end, or at the very least will end any time soon. And I'm not sure it's intended to. |
To the OP: (as others have said) definitely figure out which global channels your server is using, and if you're interested in the Incarnate stuff, hang out where the trials form up. You'll be back to teaming in no time.
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it really isnt going to end. for one thing, an mmo makes money by keeping people invested for the long term. while the old way of just roll an alt, and another and another, worked for some, it also burned a lot of people out and we saw significant drop offs from the 2 big introductory phases. issue 1 and issue 6. a lot of people apparently like having their concepts that they have invested significant time on continue advancing. and by comparison, the end game here is barely a blip compared to the other bigger mmos on the market in terms of time commitment or requirement to do content. we have no gear scores, and im cool with that. |
Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
One thing which concerns me is that the developers seem to have made it an objective to keep people perpetually and constantly interested in end game. So even when the current "stuff" grows old and stale, they'll be trying to add more. More raids, more powers, more unlocks and so forth.
I'm not sure the current over-interest in end game will ever end, or at the very least will end any time soon. And I'm not sure it's intended to. |
end game also existed long before incarnates were a defined concept, first they were hami-os, then they were the good recipies(usually the named ones),then then they were purples, maybe pvp ios too, they were insanely expensive for a while, havent looked recently. and there always has been a "tilt" to some content over others. katie hannon had her day in the sun, the cap sf was popular,and the itf was and still is kind of a darling of the masses due to its speed and dense enemy groups. but long long ago it was a lot easier to get a itf running than eden trial(especially after they fixed the exploit), people just gravitate towards things that require less investment for greater reward.
really outside of just after launch with perez hunting, i dont ever remember a time that one could just get a group together very quickly just by broadcastin., but on the same token, i also dont remember a time that it has been easier to find a group, thanks to the functionality of the global channels.
Sunday I ended up with one teammate trying to do a WTF. I didn't time how long we tried (yes, using global channels), but since I was in Striga and playing a transfer from redside, I decided to work on my atlas medallion. Killed 200 each of wolves and vamps with a MA stalker and never even got a third member, let alone enough people to actually start.
In general, if I'm trying to start a non-incarnate team these days, I make sure there's something good on netflix.
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I'm logged in now. The correct channel name is indeed Infinity Badges 2.0
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
I'm not logged in now, so I can't check, but I think the name is actually Infinity Badges 2.0. Hopefully someone will be along shortly to confirm or refute this.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
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I did Moonfire on Friday and Saturday and had 8 people both times. I did Manticore on Sunday and we got enough to start that (7). Maybe there was some kind of event going on while you were recruiting, or maybe you just had bad luck.
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Originally Posted by rsclark
Sunday I ended up with one teammate trying to do a WTF. I didn't time how long we tried (yes, using global channels), but since I was in Striga and playing a transfer from redside, I decided to work on my atlas medallion. Killed 200 each of wolves and vamps with a MA stalker and never even got a third member, let alone enough people to actually start.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
Hi folks,
I've been having a really hard time finding teams. I'm on the Infinity server.
I just resubscribed a couple days ago, after taking a break for 1-2 years. Last I played, I could usually get a team together in 5-10 minutes. Now that I'm back, I tried the usual routes:
* Going to zones appropriate for my level, and using broadcast.
* Using team finder to see who's in a mission, and sending them a tell to join the team.
* Trying to build a team from the (scant!) few un-teamed people in my level range.
I've tried this with my low, mid and 50 characters, and had no luck.
Where are all the teams? Are people doing content I'm just not aware of, and that's where I should go?
Or maybe the Inifinity server is just too low on population to support ad hoc teams anymore? Should I wait for the next free server transfer and move?
Thanks!