Join your servers global channels.
Here are a few that are listed in the Champions Section of the forums.
- Alliance Network - Private (Game-Teaming-Casual)
Mods:@Ultraamann @Photometric @Dragonblood @Deadboy @Acemace
- BMT of Champion - Private (Badges-Missions-Trials)
Mods: @Stray Kitten @Fanged Knight @Jitsurei @Cutlass @SCyberTaz @Placta
- ChampioNexus - Private (Game-Related Only Channel)
Mods: @Amygdala @Cobalt Azurean for more information see the Guildportal Site.
- Champions United - Open (Everything game-related, No Drama Please)
Mods: @Budweiser @Myrmydon @Acemace @Braije @SteelDominator @Viking Queen
- DarkGuard Network - Private (Everything! Rated R chat)
Mods: @Braije @Fayellon @SteelDominator @Sepultura @Black Tabby @Battling Beastman
@Ms Snazzzy @Photometric @Ultraamann @Zubenelgenubi @Acemace @Destructosaurus
- Champions Unleashed - Open (Game-Teaming-Open)
Mods: @Viking Queen @Myrmydon
- TankHQ - Open (Everything Tanks, channel of Tanker Tuesday)
Mods: @Myrmydon @Ultraamann @Warboss @Acemace @Pep Rally @Dinah Might
@Witty Librarian @Rangle M Down @SolarEagle @Vox Populi
- Champion Trials - Open (Dedicated to Incarnate Trials)
Mods: @SCyberTaz @Myrmydon @Force @Lectricat @Placta @Braije @Viking Queen
@SteelDominator @Jitsurei @Cutlass @Starforce @Black Tabby @Stray Kitten
- UHB Network - Private (Free Speech/No Drama)
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=280024
If anyone is on a free account and refuses to spend enough to unlock global channels then they can suck it up and deal with it. You get what you pay for.
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Thank you for the advice. Hopefully, it will help.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
If anyone is on a free account and refuses to spend enough to unlock global channels then they can suck it up and deal with it. You get what you pay for.
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If you are hoping to attract them into the game more fully, you should treat them like Gold not...
Second free players may be purchasing all sorts of stuff to unlock it.
Third, if you don't know how or that you should unlock Global Channels it will hurt your experience.
I may be an idiot, I'm just asking for help idiot proofing finding teams.
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Well you're playing on Champion, normal pugging that you would find on other servers doesn't really happen here, pretty much everything happens via global channels (such as the ones Forbin posted). Also, Champion is pretty active during it's prime time hours (5pm-11pm pacific)but can get rather sparse in mornings/afternoons.
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Originally Posted by Talionis
I can never seem to find a good team on Champion. I don't know if its because I'm doing something wrong or what. But anything you can do to make finding a team idiot proof would be nice.
Improved/Easier to use chat channels. Heck I think I've hurt my chat channel set up and need a good way to reset it. Maybe a toggle that will help to match you to people looking for teams. But for new or returning players to come back, you don't want them playing alone. You want them making bonds and playing with others. |
I would definitely check out the global channels that were listed earlier.
In terms of PuGs, I've actually been running a PuG Maria Jenkins team all afternoon. So there are teams running on Champion, however we tend to network heavily through chat channels.
I would also recommend using the Search function. If you type /search or click on Team and then Find Member, you can look for people in your level range. People will appear colour coded depending on whether or not they're teamed, etc. For more info, click here.
I play almost exclusively on Champion, so if you're still lost, send me a tell @Amygdala and I'll try my best to help you out. 
Leader of Renaissance de la Veritas
Moderator of ChampioNexus
Amygdala's Guide to the Cathedral of Pain Trial
Chat channels are pretty much how we roll on Champion.
We also advertise future events via the Champion section o' the forums and the Event Calendar for our server.
Additionally, if you're into Facebook and all that jazz, events are posted there also.
Events Calendar.
Champion Players Facebook.
"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer
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Originally Posted by Talionis
Thank you for the advice. Hopefully, it will help.
Keep in mind: If you are hoping to attract them into the game more fully, you should treat them like Gold not... Second free players may be purchasing all sorts of stuff to unlock it. Third, if you don't know how or that you should unlock Global Channels it will hurt your experience. I may be an idiot, I'm just asking for help idiot proofing finding teams. |
We had a huge problem with RMT spam/abuse and the draconian measures you see on the Free accounts are a direct result of those people harassing legitimate customers. The devs have stated they will not reconsider these restrictions, because their primary concern is their paying customers.
Edit: Ah here's the official responses and links to the posts in question.
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In the interest of protecting our existing Community which has always been so loyal, we've chosen to err on the side of curtailing the free players ability to grief.
As we've stated, the cornerstone of CoH has always been, and will continue to be, our veteran Community. |
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The good thing is that Global Channel access will be a privilege earned through the Paragon Rewards Program, so if you have a friend who decides to return, and they've been with the game for X number of months, they will have access to Globals.
This helps prevent RMT'rs and other unsavory's from flooding globals, while at the same time allowing you to reconnect with old friends who may have wandered astray from Paragon City (or the Rogue Isles ) |
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There is a toggle to indicate you're looking for a team, and you can set it to several different values: including looking for trials, looking for patrols, looking for missions, looking for any, not looking, etc.|
Originally Posted by Talionis
Maybe a toggle that will help to match you to people looking for teams.
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When you open Find Member team search window an icon will appear by each character indicating what kind of activity they're looking for, which you can filter for so only those players are displayed.
So, the functionality is already there, the problem is that very few people seem to know about it. I just checked on Freedom, and out of 700 or so players who are listed in the Find Member window 5 were looking for team and 12 were looking for any. Hundreds of people were set to "not looking" and were not teamed and were not in a mission. (And while I was looking at the window with my search flag set to not looking, someone asked me out of the blue if I was interested in doing radio missions.)
It's possible that those people are just putzing around solo, or are just waiting for friends to show up, or they could actually be looking for teams but don't know how to find them except through chat channels. We really don't know.
I try to use the search toggle when possible, but hardly anyone seems to know about it.
The problem may be that the search function is backwards. It's set up for a team leader to find members, but most people want to find teams. Personally, I don't mind running a team, I just hate sitting around sending cold tells to people I don't know asking them to join me (since so few people set their status). I also don't like spamming the help channel with "looking for members" because that's not what the help channel should be for. While the global recruiting channels are fine, they have a lot of limitations: you have to know about them, you have to be invited to them or sign yourself up (and there's a limit to the number you can join), there's a limit on the number of members, etc. I'd like to just set the toggle to "looking for members", with a note saying what I'm doing, and anyone who's interested can ask to join. But that's not a current option, though I admit I could just set my status to something else and see if "Running hero tips, send tell for invitation" gets any bites.
That's sort of what the LFG queue is supposed to do, without making any one person responsible for leading the league, but most people who run trials want to exert control over who's on the team (usually for very valid reasons).
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Originally Posted by Rodion
There is a toggle to indicate you're looking for a team, and you can set it to several different values: including looking for trials, looking for patrols, looking for missions, looking for any, not looking, etc.
When you open Find Member team search window an icon will appear by each character indicating what kind of activity they're looking for, which you can filter for so only those players are displayed. So, the functionality is already there, the problem is that very few people seem to know about it. I just checked on Freedom, and out of 700 or so players who are listed in the Find Member window 5 were looking for team and 12 were looking for any. Hundreds of people were set to "not looking" and were not teamed and were not in a mission. (And while I was looking at the window with my search flag set to not looking, someone asked me out of the blue if I was interested in doing radio missions.) It's possible that those people are just putzing around solo, or are just waiting for friends to show up, or they could actually be looking for teams but don't know how to find them except through chat channels. We really don't know. I try to use the search toggle when possible, but hardly anyone seems to know about it. The problem may be that the search function is backwards. It's set up for a team leader to find members, but most people want to find teams. Personally, I don't mind running a team, I just hate sitting around sending cold tells to people I don't know asking them to join me (since so few people set their status). I also don't like spamming the help channel with "looking for members" because that's not what the help channel should be for. While the global recruiting channels are fine, they have a lot of limitations: you have to know about them, you have to be invited to them or sign yourself up (and there's a limit to the number you can join), there's a limit on the number of members, etc. I'd like to just set the toggle to "looking for members", with a note saying what I'm doing, and anyone who's interested can ask to join. But that's not a current option, though I admit I could just set my status to something else and see if "Running hero tips, send tell for invitation" gets any bites. That's sort of what the LFG queue is supposed to do, without making any one person responsible for leading the league, but most people who run trials want to exert control over who's on the team (usually for very valid reasons). |
I strongly disagree with the idea that the problem is with the game mechanics. The real problem is with the players themselves. And I'm not blaming the Freems. They have account restrictions to deal with.
There are far too many lazy slackers that prefer to stand around spamming LFT/LFG messages to actually recruiting a team for themselves. I frequently watch a dozen+ of them standing around the trainer LOOKING AT EACH OTHER for 20 minutes and more spamming LFT's and not one showing the initiative to invite the others and play the game.
I've been playing for nearly 8 years and I've watched players behave like this thousands of times. I and others I know have even formed teams for these people, make one the leader and left the team only to see them all back spamming LFT less than 2 minutes later cuz none of them wanted the star.
Until those lazy slackers are willing to recruit their own teams there will always be problems finding teams.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
There are far too many lazy slackers that prefer to stand around spamming LFT/LFG messages to actually recruiting a team for themselves. I frequently watch a dozen+ of them standing around the trainer LOOKING AT EACH OTHER for 20 minutes and more spamming LFT's and not one showing the initiative to invite the others and play the game.
I've been playing for nearly 8 years and I've watched players behave like this thousands of times. I and others I know have even formed teams for these people, make one the leader and left the team only to see them all back spamming LFT less than 2 minutes later cuz none of them wanted the star. Until those lazy slackers are willing to recruit their own teams there will always be problems finding teams. |
"Champion (the Community Server... or GTFO) is like a small town where everyone knows each other's names, for better or worse." -kojirodensetsu.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Maslow's Hammer
I can never seem to find a good team on Champion. I don't know if its because I'm doing something wrong or what. But anything you can do to make finding a team idiot proof would be nice.
Improved/Easier to use chat channels.
Heck I think I've hurt my chat channel set up and need a good way to reset it.
Maybe a toggle that will help to match you to people looking for teams.
But for new or returning players to come back, you don't want them playing alone. You want them making bonds and playing with others.