Silver Gale

I associate Virtue mostly with the group I regularly play with, and the people on my Global that I met in (gasps, pearl-clutching, dogs barking, horses whinnying, villagers crossing themselves and slamming the window shutters closed) Pocket D.

From the Massivel article on the CoH panel at NYCC...

Philantropy doesn't exactly pay for itself - someone that rich would have likely *gotten* rich on flipping in the first place.

I sometimes craft up common IOs by the dozen and put them up at just over cost. That always ends with my character much richer and the going price of the IO completely unaffected.

I'm just not seeing Cole as Letter-Writer. Yes, the "stand by my side or get destroyed" fits, but I don't see him going "I bet you're wondering who I am, well, wonder more." He'd write his full name and all his self-granted titles in 22-karat gold.

RP wise, my character is a powerful mage. She saves the entire world and goes up against gods on a regular basis.

Mechanics wise, she's level 50, she's IOed out, even has some purples, but there's only so much I can do to counteract the fact she is Storm/Elec, and I just don't have the reflexes to do 1-on-1 PvP.

I don't go looking for fights at the D. She's there to have fun, not fight and arrest bad guys, and it's out of her jurisdiction anyway. If someone attacks her I most often RP that the blow lands, but DJ Zero's reality-altering prevents any damage.

I don't expect you to acknowledge my character's power either IC or OOC, but unless we agreed on using a PvP match as part of a plotline, I will just avoid having a fight with you. Because I don't see why I need to have my character's unsuitability for PvP rubbed in my face. Go ahead and call me and/or my character a coward if you like.

Here's today's random poll. Do your characters on one server have a common theme, either purposefully or accidentally?

Virtue is my main server. This is where I roll characters with a well-defined personality, or ones I want to include in my SG's RP stories. I have nine free slots, but I'm incredibly paranoid about using them because what if I get a better idea later?, so I tend to "test-run" characters on other servers.

Infinity is my second server. It's for those characters who are more about the powerset combinations. They rarely leave the server. Also, I established a SG there for an alternate universe RP idea that nobody took me up on, so it's just kind of sitting there gathering dust.

Liberty is where the good ideas emerge. I only have one constant character there, because every other character was either rerolled or moved to Virtue. Jeremy Connington, Galactic Valkyrie, Minty Fresh Lass, all got their starts here.

Victory seems to end up with interesting characters that are extremely painful to solo, and not quite good enough to move to Virtue.

Justice is where bad ideas go to die. Three characters, each one a "hm, that might be cool" followed almost immediately by "what was I *thinking*". They're not getting deleted because, well, it's not like I need the slots.

Triumph has one character, rolled as part of our SG's short-lived "Themed Triumph" program. The Let's Fighting Justice Super Squad is a Supergroup made up entirely of Defenders with a Sentai uniform.

Guardian has one character, whose concept is simply "let's make a team-buffing character, on a low-population server, on redside". I am really glad for alternate builds.

Welcome to the game!

This might be a good time to check out the Salvage and Recipes that have been dropping for you. Some of them you can craft and use for yourself, they become Invention Enhancements that never expire. Some of them you can sell on the market. Check the prices of everything before you sell it to an NPC vendor!

You'll be getting Single Origin enhancements as drops, as well. Remember to sell them to their respective stores (Magic Origin to Magic stores, etc.) - you get more money that way.

Even after reading this entire thread, I still have a bit of an irrational hatred for flippers. It's like if I opened a lemonade stand, selling lemonade for 15 cents a glass, and someone came along, bought all my lemonade and then set up a stand next to mine and started selling it at $2 a glass. It's just that feeling that you did all the hard work and then someone else came along and made a huge profit from it.

(This is a very good analogy: note that even if the other person did no work to actually produce the lemonade, they obviously did some research into how much you can sell lemonade for. Maybe if I'd done the same research, I would have tried to sell my lemonade for $1.50 instead. Rationally, I really have nothing to complain about, I got exactly as much for my lemonade as I wanted, and I can go home early. But I will still resent the lemonade flipper a little.)

1. Me
2. Capable Tank
3. Capable Brute/Scrapper
4. Capable Brute/Scrapper
5. Shielder who uses their shields
6. Capable support
7. Any capable player
8. Any capable player

Capable = "someone who can play their character and work in a team"