Arcas -
I started a superteam in mid-March that your post was largely the inspiration for. Thank you!
We are called the Olympiad (our names are Greek Gods - with a code number at the end), and we are on the Freedom server. 6 playing sessions thus far, and we are level 26. Unlike buffer overrun or those SGs where everyone just intermingles, it is a pure ST - 8 characters that were planned and coordinated from scratch, and only play together, twice a week at scheduled times (you'd better believe that was hard to arrange).
Here are the ATs:
Dionysus - Kinetics/Radation Defender (me)
Apollo - Empathy/Dark Defender
Hades - Ice/Radation Controller
Zeus - Invulnerability/EM Tanker
Ares - AR/Dev Blaster
Hephaestus - Fire/Fire Blaster
Artemis - Spines/SR Scrapper
Hermes - Broadsword/Regen Scrapper
Builds were mostly planned out in advance, although we have had tweaks since then. Some of the features:
Both defenders and the controller have maneuvers and tactics.
3 of us have recall friend - one of which has SS, and one has Teleport.
Someone has grant invis, someone else group fly, etc. etc.
One of the rules I had in constructing the builds: no duplication of power sets. I wanted versitility. That meant we couldn't have a /inv scrapper since we have a inv tanker. It might be equally powerful to have 8 radiation defenders, but I wanted all 8 of us to be bringing something truly unique to the table. And its true - any 4-5 of us together is still a good team, but 6, 7, or 8...so many ways to take everything down.
But aside from the coordination of builds, I think there is an even bigger benefit to Superteams - that kind of knowledge of how to play together is so invaluable. Good regular teams can plan out tactics in advance. But when things don't go as planned, or there is an unexpected change, having a team that understands each other and will instantly adapt....is so amazing.
Thanks again for suggesting to us all what great potential these teams could have. If you want to check out our very preliminary website, it is
http://Olympiad.cohchat.com/
