Ironblade Posted January 13 Posted January 13 On 1/11/2025 at 8:28 AM, Diantane said: When I try to fill up a team these days it is extremely hard except for only one hour in prime time on weekdays. They should be merging and eliminating shards. Not adding new ones. The title question comes from a lack of knowledge. Victory was an existing, separate CoH server which has now joined Homecoming. As for merging servers - no. Bad idea. 2 1 1 Originally on Infinity. I have Ironblade on every shard. - My only AE arc: The Origin of Mark IV (ID 48002) Link to the story of Toggle Man, since I keep having to track down my original post.
JJDrakken Posted January 13 Posted January 13 As for filling teams. Less you state server your on, we speculate. Sure Indom/Reunion are very low pop. But folks go there mostly to solo or team with specific people and not deal with the sloven masses on X or Eve. Also, "A lot" of folks are not aware CoH has a Rating & Note System for accounts. Maybe folks gave you 1 star reviews with notes on why and when you advert and they check your account. They are like oh, yah, pass. Before you or someone else complains about that. It's personal review. Only person doing the ranking/adding stars and possibly seeing said stars above characters heads for that account can see it. 1
Snarky Posted January 13 Posted January 13 4 hours ago, JJDrakken said: As for filling teams. Less you state server your on, we speculate. Sure Indom/Reunion are very low pop. But folks go there mostly to solo or team with specific people and not deal with the sloven masses on X or Eve. Also, "A lot" of folks are not aware CoH has a Rating & Note System for accounts. Maybe folks gave you 1 star reviews with notes on why and when you advert and they check your account. They are like oh, yah, pass. Before you or someone else complains about that. It's personal review. Only person doing the ranking/adding stars and possibly seeing said stars above characters heads for that account can see it. I demand you all rate me “bestest”. Log in now and do that. I will wait. 1
lemming Posted January 13 Posted January 13 7 minutes ago, Snarky said: I demand you all rate me “bestest”. Log in now and do that. I will wait. I think my note mentioned "Great value on forums, be wary on PUGS, they're fine, but tends to attract unsavory types" 3
Luminara Posted January 13 Posted January 13 11 minutes ago, Snarky said: I demand you all rate me “bestest”. Log in now and do that. I will wait. ***** Buttest! 2 1 Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right.
Shin Magmus Posted January 13 Posted January 13 The rating system is really useful. You can write all kinds of helpful notes about people like their Mains and simply having any stars above their head will let you know that you've played with them before: they're like little secret reminders. And hey... if every once in a while you write a note that happens to end in "kick on sight" and it happens to have 1 star... y'know that's totally fine. You play the game how you want (everyone does this), and you are within your rights to avoid players who make your experience feel awful. 2 Treating everyone fairly is great; unfair discrimination is badwrong! I do not believe the false notion that "your ignorance is just as good as my knowledge." The Definitive Empathy Rework
Perma-Newbie Posted January 14 Posted January 14 when Dian admitted to playing on Excelsior and can't form a team... ...man, it's time to make a new account and seriously reconsider your public image. 4 1 Everlasting server - the Perma-Newbies SG
UltraAlt Posted January 14 Posted January 14 On 1/11/2025 at 6:10 PM, Diantane said: The red side population is extremely tiny. Yes. It is. In regards to character names: On 1/11/2025 at 6:15 PM, Diantane said: It wouldn't be that hard. Other shards have a population of like 20 or 30. Everlasting about 125. Excelsior is about 450 Do you understand that those numbers are the number of characters currently online at the time you are looking at the numbers and not the number of characters that have been created on those servers or the number of characters that may be online on those servers at other times of the day? If someone posts a reply quoting me and I don't reply, they may be on ignore. (It seems I'm involved with so much at this point that I may not be able to easily retrieve access to all the notifications) Some players know that I have them on ignore and are likely to make posts knowing that is the case. But the fact that I have them on ignore won't stop some of them from bullying and harassing people, because some of them love to do it. There is a group that have banded together to target forum posters they don't like. They think that this behavior is acceptable. Ignore (in the forums) and /ignore (in-game) are tools to improve your gaming experience. Don't feel bad about using them.
srmalloy Posted January 14 Posted January 14 21 hours ago, Snarky said: I demand you all rate me “bestest”. Log in now and do that. I will wait. What if we've already rated you "boastest"?
Ukase Posted Sunday at 03:30 PM Posted Sunday at 03:30 PM On 1/11/2025 at 7:28 AM, Diantane said: When I try to fill up a team these days it is extremely hard except for only one hour in prime time on weekdays. They should be merging and eliminating shards. Not adding new ones. The reason you struggle to fill teams is, just my own anecdotal experience, teaming with you is less fun than teaming with others. The bringing in of a new server is a good thing. More shards means more options for names that may not be available on the more populated ones. 1
srmalloy Posted Sunday at 07:03 PM Posted Sunday at 07:03 PM 3 hours ago, Ukase said: The bringing in of a new server is a good thing. More shards means more options for names that may not be available on the more populated ones. Creating a new pool of server-specific popular names is not, in my opinion, sufficient justification for standing up a new server. Will standing up a new server bring in more players to bring its population up to that of the other servers, or will it simply dilute the population of the existing servers as the people whose gaming experience is irreparably harmed by not being able to get a character name someone else who with malice aforethought has preemptively seized for their character and hoarded specifically to deny its availability to everyone else, move to the new server so they can get the name they are immovably fixated on to the absolute exclusion of any other possible name? 1
lemming Posted Sunday at 07:10 PM Posted Sunday at 07:10 PM 1 minute ago, srmalloy said: Creating a new pool of server-specific popular names is not, in my opinion, sufficient justification for standing up a new server. Will standing up a new server bring in more players to bring its population up to that of the other servers, or will it simply dilute the population of the existing servers as the people whose gaming experience is irreparably harmed by not being able to get a character name someone else who with malice aforethought has preemptively seized for their character and hoarded specifically to deny its availability to everyone else, move to the new server so they can get the name they are immovably fixated on to the absolute exclusion of any other possible name? I will say that there are a lot of good names open on Victory (except for the one I really wanted. 😄 ) I've been playing on Victory quite a bit now, it's slowly growing and starting to run some of the more complicated to form content such as MSRs. Definitely slower on a lot of things, but it's been interesting. And so far, lots of friendly people. It will be interesting to see how it continues 1
macskull Posted Sunday at 07:50 PM Posted Sunday at 07:50 PM (edited) 4 hours ago, Ukase said: More shards means more options for names that may not be available on the more populated ones. It doesn't really matter if I can get a name I wanted if there's no one there for me to play with, unless I'm predominantly a solo player. At the end of the day, Victory is just going to remain a low-population shard like everything else that isn't Excelsior or Everlasting. If even a year's worth of bonus XP on the smaller shards didn't do anything to spread population around, why would adding a new one? Edited Sunday at 07:50 PM by macskull "If you can read this, I've failed as a developer." -- Caretaker Proc information and chance calculator spreadsheet (last updated 15APR24) Player numbers graph (updated every 15 minutes) Graph readme (now with Victory support!) @macskull/@Not Mac | Twitch | Youtube
Luminara Posted Sunday at 08:39 PM Posted Sunday at 08:39 PM (edited) 5 hours ago, macskull said: If even a year's worth of bonus XP on the smaller shards didn't do anything to spread population around, why would adding a new one? They didn't fold Victory in to give players another server, they did it to bring another valuable and worthwhile person into the HC team. Victory was just a bonus that came with her. It's not always about us, folks. Edited Monday at 12:58 AM by Luminara The the! 3 1 2 1 Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right.
Ghost Posted Sunday at 08:43 PM Posted Sunday at 08:43 PM (edited) 4 minutes ago, Luminara said: It's not always about us, folks. Edited Sunday at 08:44 PM by Ghost
macskull Posted Sunday at 08:59 PM Posted Sunday at 08:59 PM 15 minutes ago, Luminara said: They didn't fold Victory in to give players another server, they did it to bring the another valuable and worthwhile person into the HC team. Victory was just a bonus that came with her. It's not always about us, folks. I'm aware of why they did it, and I'm aware the addition of the server incurs no extra costs for HC so it's a win-win for everyone involved. Michiyo was on the HC team long before Victory was brought under the HC umbrella so that part at least is irrelevant. "If you can read this, I've failed as a developer." -- Caretaker Proc information and chance calculator spreadsheet (last updated 15APR24) Player numbers graph (updated every 15 minutes) Graph readme (now with Victory support!) @macskull/@Not Mac | Twitch | Youtube
lemming Posted Monday at 12:49 AM Posted Monday at 12:49 AM 3 hours ago, macskull said: Michiyo was on the HC team long before Victory was brought under the HC umbrella so that part at least is irrelevant. Yes, but this frees up some of Michiyo's time to do more things for all of HC.
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