Thinking about changing home servers

Thinking about switching from Freedom to Virtue. I always like being on the most popular server due to the ease of finding groups and incarnate trials and such. Seems Freedom is decreasing in population and rumor has it Virtue is only growing bigger.

Would I see a bigger population on Virtue? Do a lot of Incarnate Trials and such get ran? Badge runs? Etc.

On Virtue, I see numerous trials being formed at almost any hour, though mostly at night. Some are badge runs, some not. I'd say its about half and half.

Finding random teams is getting a bit more difficult these days for anything in the range of 20-40, but that's not to say it's really hard to find them.

As far as population, it always surprises me that Virtue is in the red (server load) almost every night lately. People tell me CoH is dead and a ghost town these days, but Virtue alone disproves that.


Find a nice global channel or two and you'll never be without a team/trial/conversation on Virtue.

I switched from Freedom to Virtue. I was worried that there would be less going on.

As far as I can tell, the extra players on Freedom are farming.

There is very little farming spam on Virtue compared to the massive amount on Freedom.

Virtue often has only 1 Atlas, whereas Freedom seems to always have 3 due to farmers in AE.

teaming is easy on Virtue.

Freedom started dipping below Virtue on a regular basis around the time Marty went live.

One advantage of Virtue is that there are always tons of people sitting around chatting on channels waiting for someone to get something going. If you have enough initiative to form a team, your team will fill rapidly.

On the other hand, if you switch to Virtue you may find yourself inadvertently teamed with me when you least expect it.

I've been playing on both Freedom and Virtue quite a bit.

Freedom has for the longest been my home server, but the (interacting) population is definitely down quite a bit, along with all my globals being virtually dead (I double checked to make sure I was still in all of them and with them on tabs!).

Virtue feels more like Freedom used to back in the day. Atlas always has a fair number of people, and I regularly see stuff forming (unlike Freedom, where I can go afk in AP 1 for 30 minutes and come back and see zero broadcasts/requests).

I've actually been thinking of transferring my Warshade over... I'm definitely tempted.

(Freedom's decline was also years after i13... claiming it happened then is just silly)

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

I'm in a handful of Virtue TF channels... some more chatty than others, but all good for forming teams and running TFs. There's a good mix of players out there who like to run TFs and Trials.

Hami raids and MS raids are less frequent than they used to be, but usually happens once-twice a week. Hami raids are usually Saturday blueside. I even saw the Abandoned Sewer Trial run twice last week. ^_^ And you can almost always find an ITF or i-Trail going.

Inertia.

Plus, on Freedom, you don't have to wade through the bodies of the ERPers

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Virtue has always been my home server.

Over the past few weeks, with the small amount of weekend play I put in (usually in the midnight hours, EDT), I've managed to get a character from 50 to 50 +3 largely by sitting in the queue while street sweeping or doing DA missions. I was expecting it to take (me) far longer given previous experiences with a different character, but the activity seems (to me) to have increased of late.