MaHaBone23

Yep, you can get your name back, as long as you delete the old toon first.

If you do decide to remake the character, try joining a "sewer team." When you get to Atlas, just broadcast "looking for a sewer team" and hopefully any forming teams will scoop you up. You and 7 other friendly strangers will then hammer your way into the darkest depths of the sewers, and probably end up between level 6 and 10 in an hour or less.

Its a nice quick way to break in your character, make some friends, and ask some more experienced players all kinds of questions.

Sidekicking is much simpler these days. Everyone on the team matches level to the person at the top of the team roster (usually the leader.) Doesn't matter if you're 1 or 50. People that sidekick down usually have the easier time- they keep their powers from the new level +5. So if a 50 sidekicks to a 20 team, they would fight as a 20, but have access to the powers they have up to level 25.

And by the way, welcome to the game!

Absolutely, this. 30 might be a bit strong. 5 would be more reasonable, to keep people from min/maxing their origin with whatever damage type is most common. It would be nice if Origin had some greater effect on your character than what store you shop at. Let's face it, unless you're lighting on Oil Slick, those silly Origin powers we all start with are little more than clutter.

Smoke is actually pretty handy for this purpose. By the time the -percep breaks, they're already held/stunned. Plus Smoke works great out of the box, and is a welcom relief on slot-hungry builds.

Then I guess my question would be Why Fire? the little bit of extra damage? the -to Hit in smoke? Character concept?

In these situations, the command you want is /take the blue pill

...and lay off the red pills, already.

See, I relish the demented weirdness. Occasionally ketchup as well. I'm not into the whole ERP/MRP scene, but I love the fact that people use a superhero game to do it. It's the Human Safari, baby! You only come through once, so see all the sights!

Heh, this was pretty much exactly my plan too. I could never delete a 50... then again, I could never bring myself to play them again either. Triumph was my home back in the day. Now it will be my rest home.

The one thing I love about Virtue is that people tend to really polish up their characters, their bios, their costumes, their keybinds. There is always tons of great character concepts running around, and it inspires me to step up my game too.

Also, the people in general are pretty chill and helpful. I think the friendly, supportive player base cures rampant n00bness before it can start.

*sigh*
I signed on for a MotST the other night, never having done a Stateman's TF. A couple people on the TF were VERY helpful, and really clued me on what to do, what not to do, and what was coming next.
By the fifth attempt (okay, at least one failure was my fault. I play aggressive, and didnt really understand the "no death" requirement) we got a head of steam and made it to the end of the fourth mission. That includes a Cyst explosion that sent half of the team into the red.
In the fight with Dr. Aion, the tank dies. Then promptly quits. Another player curses, quits. And another and another, without so much as a "bye!" In the span of 20 seconds, 8 players becomes 2- me and a dead blaster. My poor squishy troller lasted longer than she had any right to against Aion and his clones, but down I went.

So I can understand rebooting the TF on the first or second mission, but by the time you mad eit to the end of the fourth, would it not make sense to just follow through for the merits?