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Posted on: 2009-05-26 24:01 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Bill Z Bubba was created back in Sep of 04. It was Jan or Feb of 05 when he hit 50. Around 4 months. There was a LOT of soloing during that period.
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I think hours of play is far more relevant then calendar days.
Some people play 6 hours a week, just on weekends, others play 30+ hours a week, spread out everyday. I think the data you want.. and should use.. you will get from talking to any random citizen with a name beginning with the letter "M."
My first 50 was a DM/SR Scrapper, I think I took 456 hours more or less.
I enjoyed every single hour... slowly.
I urge you to do the same.
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I had about... a year and half maybe, 700+ hours of playtime.
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534 hours to 50.
Back in the day, no reputation ratings, uphill both ways, etc.
These days apparently 150 is "kind of normal".
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My first 50 was very similar to BillZ's. Created mid to end of September '04 and hit 50 about a week before Issue 3 came out (February '05?). Took 420 hours.
Hmm. My empath was RP-heavy. and took about a year and a half to get to 50. She was my first.
My controller, Radi, was my original character, but I did a reroll on her. Let's say about a year.
Bennu, my second controller...about 8 months.
iMaid, my MM....let's say 6 months, all told.
Time to fifty tends to go down the longer you play - you learn the game, figure out the stuff you can do quickly and the stuff you can't....
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I was over the year on Cat
I had chronic altitis from day 1.
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I rolled him in August or so of 2004, and hit 50 sometime in January 2005. Think I had about 700 hours logged, but a lot of that was RP and such.
Having Vengeance and Fallout slotted for recharge means never having to say you're sorry.
Cat's right. Altitis seriously draws out the time.
I've been sitting on a character that's at 49.8 for about 5 months now, and haven't gotten Accelle to 50 yet because my most recent characters are so fascinating.
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Defenestration Lass: Grav/Kin
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Took me about two years to get my <currently> one and only 50.
Number of hours wouldn't work for me since I Alt a bit. In all honesty, if it weren't for the introduction of VEATs I probably still would not have a 50.
I just had to have a widow.
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My first 50, Call Me Awesome, an Inv/Stone tanker hit 50 in roughly 250 hours back in issue 3 (technically issue 4, as he made the ding on day one of issue 4).
Really, hours played is the only way to fairly measure the 1-50 time; someone who plays 6+ hours a day, 7 days a week will obviously advance faster than someone who plays a couple of hours a week, and someone who focuses on one character will move faster than someone who plays a lot of different characters. On a straight time measure I think it was probably roughly 3-4 months after I joined the game before I got CMA to 50... he was the second character I rolled up.
Since that time I've gotten 11 characters to 50... and they've taken from 400 hours (the longest, on my Dark Defender) to 75 hours (My Archery/EM blaster on a SG team). I expect that record to change shortly as my Broadsword/Shield scrapper is currently sitting at level 45 with 40 hours of play; nearly all of that with a superteam of 4 Shield scrappers.
Over the issues there have been several changes to XP and leveling speed; today it's MUCH faster to level than it used to be even without using the Architect missions. 1-22 is easily doable in 12 hours for a good player with a decent team, even faster running some of the Architect missions.
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Nightshade hit 50 close to the end of my 4th month in the game - the first 42 levels or so being done in a single month, and mostly soloing. All in all I think it took just under 200 hours.
I had a lot of free time that month 
First character created a couple days after City was first released in 2004, hit 50 early August 2004. Three, four months or so.
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I think it took me 3 months and about 250 hours of mostly soloing to get my namesake Scrapper (Umbral Fist) to 50 back in 2004. I "took it slow" mainly because I wanted to complete all of the content. I distinctly remember finishing all of it at level 47 with no upper end TF to help top me off (and no auto-exemping either!).
I can't recall exactly, but it was something like 2 years or more. I'm alao altoholic.
Now if you want to ask about my second 50 - that one will be five years, give or take, since I have 2 characters who were in my first batch of alts now in their 40s and lkely to be my second 50, probably before the end of 2009, unless I get distracted again.
My highest villain, rolled on pre-start weekend, is only 41.
If you are enjoying the characters, 50 is just another number you eventually reach. Don't sweat it.
A bit of advice - don't scrap the level 21. One of the level 40ish characters I mentioned above almost was scrapped because she ended up being a WinterLord baby (in the mid20s when I had no idea how to play her). I kept her around though until I got more used to the game - and she has all the anniversary badges and is now tons of fun. The same thing might happen with your poor level 21.
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I think my first 50 was around 400 hours. It would have been longer if it weren't for the Sewer Trial's massive XP.
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I leveled up my scrapper and empath about evenly, and it took about a year, with lots of alts in between. It took me another year to get my next one, a kin defender on a different server up, and I've only recently gotten my 4th 50 up. I do have about 6 charcters with xp locked down at about 44-45 though. I don't want to outlevel some stuff.
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Well, it was not the first character I made, but one of the first. Maybe a month into the game. I got my first 50 about a month after Kheldians were implemented ("ooh, more alts!"). Guess when my first villain hit 50.
About a month (dec '08 - jan '09), with 93-94 hours of play. Which, if you do the math, shows I played an embarrassing number of hours per day.
It's taken me from my reg date until a few months ago to actually take a character to 50.
My first 50 was around nine months to get him to 50 and i played maybe a couple hours a day six days a week.
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Minor Correction, was just UNDER the year, I trawled the level 50 thread on Triumph to find the date. 8/24/05
My 3rd 50 was 27 months from creation to getting there (emp/elec)
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Wow I think it took me about 4 years... not because of difficulty but altoholism that made me reroll characters all the time.
Right now i am close to have my first 50 villain and yet again I am deviating to a lowbie one... I guess i suffer from ADD...
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For you to get your first 50. I'm asking this out of a somewhat self-pity because a month or two ago I got my 12 month vet award and my highest level toon that I had was a level 21 that I will scrap as soon as i get a toon to the same level. If you plan to ask What my play time/style I usualy only got to play on weekends for about 5 hours at a time. So back to my original question how long did it take you to get your first 50.
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19 months for my first 50, I think he had about 250 hours on him, I teamed quite a bit on him.
Psyonico hit 50 just a couple months back, almost 3 years, but I solo'd him quite a bit, and was always frustrated because I couldn't find teams, he probably had about 350 hours on him to 50.
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For you to get your first 50. I'm asking this out of a somewhat self-pity because a month or two ago I got my 12 month vet award and my highest level toon that I had was a level 21 that I will scrap as soon as i get a toon to the same level. If you plan to ask What my play time/style I usualy only got to play on weekends for about 5 hours at a time. So back to my original question how long did it take you to get your first 50.