Forumite: One who spends more time on the forum than in-game.
*raises hand* guilty!
Not sure what anyone calls it, but Hardcore in the Diablo sense of hardcore, where debt = deletion. Iron Eagles is the most prominent group to my knowledge.
Soloers
Always remember, we were Heroes.
Explorer.
I'm an explorer/soloer type.
<<Content Monger
I loves my souvenirs... yes... my pretties...
There would also be griefer. Not just PvP, just people who's main aim seems to be making the game as unpleasant for other players as possible. Thankfully they don't last long, but its still a motivation for logging in.
Theres also Socialisers, people who don't really care as much about the gameplay aspects, but mainly play cos they have lots of friends who also play.
EDIT: Also, yes. Souvys are great, so much better and more meaningful than those frivilous badges 
Always remember, we were Heroes.
Architect.
Or 'writer', perhaps, since all your identified player types are '-er' words. =)
Whatever you call it. I imagine it's kinda constrained due to arc publishing limitations, but even so, I know folks who rotate their published stories and are always making new ones...
@Acyl
VIRTUE
Blue: Realpolitik, Leading Lady, Glass Lass, Superball, Alec Kazam
Red: Battery Acid, Obsolete, Bugfix
I am all of these (besides badger).
Maybe "all arounder"
I fit in as a bit of a RP
a bit as a story/content player
a bit as a souvenir hunter
a minor badge hunter
a minor marketeer
Maybe I'm that mysterious animal known as a "casual player"
Writer of In-Game fiction: Just Completed: My Summer Vacation. My older things are now being archived at Fanfiction.net http://www.fanfiction.net/~jwbullfrog until I come up with a better solution.
Just A Player. Soloes sometimes, teams sometimes, PUGs or friends, collects recipes and other drops as they come, badges as they run into them, just...plays.
Grouper. Not the fish. Someone whose main interest, at least in one character, is interacting with their SG/VG, as an officer or just a member.
My scrapper doesn't need an AoE. She IS an AoE.
I'm usually a casual soloer.
Occasionally I'll run a superteam character (i.e. everybody plays similar characters whose buffs overlap to make everybody a steamrolling Engine of Doom) but I'm unsure if that counts as a distinct playstyle.
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To me "play style" is how you actually play, not what aspect of the game you prefer playing.
RPing, PLing, PvPing, Farming, etc. are all aspects of the game, not the players.
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To me "play style" is how you actually play, not what aspect of the game you prefer playing.
RPing, PLing, PvPing, Farming, etc. are all aspects of the game, not the players.
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Pretty good point there. The only way to get into discussing that drives this thread into discussions of different AT's and builds and...and...and...
and, well we've got enough of that already.
But if y'all are willing to give it a shot, then let the ride begin.
Writer of In-Game fiction: Just Completed: My Summer Vacation. My older things are now being archived at Fanfiction.net http://www.fanfiction.net/~jwbullfrog until I come up with a better solution.
steamroller
Lots of 50's yada yada. still finding fun things to do.
Cthulhu loves you, better start running
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You are in a maze of twisty little passages
I second the notion that these are all "aspects of the game", not playstyles. Any player can find some of them fun and hate others.
Asides from those already mentioned, there's the "working out how to beat challenges" aspect. Meaning for example finding ways of achieving Master of STF/LRSF, or defeating the new Hamidon when it was new.
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And on the other end, teamer. Throw out all the RP, PvP, market opportunities, badges, supergroups, and raids that you want. At the end of the day, if I can't get a large team without much of a headache, I'm not playing CoH that day.
Having Vengeance and Fallout slotted for recharge means never having to say you're sorry.
AEr's - people who now only play AE missions
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Soloists
Doc Mech-Nec (Exalted): 50 Bots/FF MM
Crey Radiation Tank (Exalted): 50 Rad/Rad Corr
Servers: Exalted, Triumph, Champion
Alts: 32
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Explorer.
I'm an explorer/soloer type.
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This is a perfect description.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
I'm a 'leveller' and 'completist'.
I've done most of the old content so I want to see what the next power I get does. Plan out my builds in Mid's then IO and purple them out and move on to the next one. If I had fun on the way up I'll roll out the alt and do various tasks.
I RP with some of my SGs, PvP with another SG and farm when I'm bored.
I used to be an explorer but sadly, the game doesn't really lend itself much to exploring. You can find neat sections in zones but a lot of it is generic 'forest, city, hazard' stuff.
Questions about the game, either side? /t @Neuronia or @Neuronium, with your queries!
168760: A Death in the Gish. 3 missions, 1-14. Easy to solo.
Infinity Villains
Champion, Pinnacle, Virtue Heroes
I'm of the solo category.
I'd also add another that I am part of...the Creator. I spend a lot of time just creating costumes and concepts. I would say base builders and architects could be a part of this too.
What about punching stuff? I'd bet that some players log in mostly to do the combat because combat is fun.
Not necessarily mindless racking up of kill numbers, but the actual animations and tactics of battle. People who line up to kick a foe off a ledge might be in this category. People who kick a gray foe off the ledge, for no reward, probably are in this category.
Whether it is carefully planned to produce optimal reward or not is relatively unimportant to the pastime; it doesn't necessarily involve exploring; story and RP may be ignored. Teaming is fine -- both to see more "action" in a given fight, and to have people around to ooh and ahhhh after a really good punch. 
I don't know what you'd call this...uh...sphere of interest in the game -- combat artist?
If we are to die, let us die like men. -- Patrick Cleburne
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The rule is that they must be loved. --Jayne Fynes-Clinton, Death of an Abandoned Dog
WITHOUT getting into a discussion of the pros and cons of each style, I'm interested in how many different playstyles are distinct enough to have their own names.
I'm aware of:
Farmer
Powerleveler/PLer
Roleplayer/RPer
PvPer
Badger
(Ebil) Marketeer
Any others?
(Casual vs. Hardcore is more an expression of attitude towards the game than a specific playstyle.)