Recently bought CoH, architects edition

I'm a total noob, and am somewhat overwhelmed. I got the idea of enhancements and inspirations now, but I still don't really know what to do.

First of all, I'm still on trial time. Does this mean I can't use Architect Entertainment? I clicked on everything. I did the tour, talked to all the holograms, and so on. It just says that I can't use it from this location.

Second of all, how do you fly? I want to make a flying character. I'm going to delete the one I already have in lieu for a better prepared, better looking one.

Third of all, what's a good noobish starting class?

Fourth of all, what's the best server?

Hi. Welcome to the game.

To fly you need to reach level 14 and take the power Fly from the flight power pool.
Before doing so, you must take either hover or air superiority from the same power pool.
Power pools will unlock for you at level 6.

I'm unsure what is locked down while on a trial account or how the AE may be locked down.

Good starting classes for a new player to learn the ropes are blasters, scrappers, brutes and corruptors.

I have no answer for the best server question. What I consider the best probably isn't a common opinion.

Thanks!

Oops. Bill kinda beat me too it. All the same...welcome anyways!

First off, welcome to the game!!

To answer your questions:

1. If you've bought the AE edition, upgrade your account with that code, and you'll be ready to roll after the updates download (if you haven't done all that yet)

2. Fly, and other major travel powers, are available in general at level 14 or higher. Your pre-requisite to the travel is available at level 6. You should really get there is short order.

3. If you're wanting to get into melee, and are on hero-side, I recommend a scrapper. If you prefer range, a Blaster would fit that role, but you don't have the ability to withstand as much damage. For villains, Brutes and Corrupters and the ones similar to scraps/blasters.

4. There is no best, or they all are, depending on your point of view. If you are looking for a lot of people, and play in the evenings in North America, then Freedom and Virtue are the largest, with Virtue being the focal point for those wanting some role-playing with their game.

If you prefer things a bit quieter and the likelihood of less lag in the game, then I'd look for a server in the middle of the pack and try it out. Note that the server order is from lightest load to highest load (load isn't necessarily players), with the one you were last on at the top.

Just to confirm, when on Trial, the AE is indeed locked.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Trial_Account

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Welcome to the game!

If you are using the free trial time, without having paid any money towards the game at all, then yes, those Trial Account limitations apply.

However, if you have paid, then AE should be accessable to you. To use it, you have to stand by and click on one of the tables/display screens, not the holograms, near the the glowie pillar of digitalness. Those will let you select or create a mission.

Hi, welcome to the game.

If you have 10,000 influence you can buy a jetpack and fly as early as level 1. It's a bit of a walk to get where you need to buy it, but if you're on the Freedom server, send me a tell (type /t @Leandro, some message) and I'll be happy to port you around and get you one.

If you are indeed on a trial account and can't send tells, leave your server and character name here, someone will look for you and show you around.

See you in game!

You don't need to delete the character you have; you can change everything about them (power and slot choices, costume, even gender and size with the Science pack) except your name, Archetype, Origin, and powersets.

There's nothing wrong with being a newbie, as long as you're willing to learn. Welcome to the game.

Remember, for someone brand new to the game, changing powers and slotting can be a bit tricky, due to not having any freespecs or vetspecs available yet, not having the insane amount of inf to buy a respec recipe, and not being high enough level to run one of the respec trials.

At least there is the secondary build which can be used as an "emergency respec".

If you have applied the AE edition code as an upgrade to your trial account, it should of lifted all the trial account restrictions from you, while leaving you your trial time still intact. if it hasn't, contact support via the plaync.com website.

Welcome, hope you like the Self Detonation power you get with Architect Edition! I Do!

10
(hehe yer all in for it now)
9
(seriously, you're all gonna die)
8
(I cant wait to splat you all over this room)
7
(not long now)
6
(just wait for it)
5
(come one)
4
(yawn..what was I doing again?)
3
(oh yeah...sweet!)
2
(Ready for it?)
1
BANG!
(damn my team killed the spawn and completed the mission)

Just a quick reiteration of what some folks have been saying....

When you apply the AE code to your account, be sure to use the UPGRADE option... you do not need to make a new account. Some folks have made this mistake in the past and lost the characters they were using during their trial. So, upgrade, Upgrade, UPGRADE.

I also say blasters and scrappers for new players... though keep in mind that blasters are a bit squishy. Tanks are great if you want serious survivability, but they are often slower with their attacks (depending on the chosen combo), so can be slow for solo play. Don't be afraid of making a few alts to tinker with combos... players in this game are proud of their altitis.

Justice is my home server, and there is rarely any shortage of activity. Whichever server you settle on, the key is to join the global chat channel for that server. Quite often, the server channel is where everyone goes to find teams, ask for help, etc., regardless of Supergroup affiliations. To find the channel for your server, you can go to the server forums, introduce yourself, and ask around.

Welcome to the game, and good hunting.

If you have questions, the Help Channel is available for both full account and trial players.

To ask a question in the help channel type:

/hc How do I get a cape?


I'm also a member of the New Player Council, who does their best to advise and assist new players. Want to learn more? Ask me!

You've also discovered the forums, a great source of information from game veterans, with minimal snark.

Welcome!

A few points in no particular order:

1) Freedom is the most populated server. It's not necessarily the "Best server". (Many people are radically anti-Freedom.) In my opinion, with a smaller server you have to become civilized, you have to learn, or you get centrifuged out; with Freedom, you can always find a new group of people who don't know you're an incompetent, griefer, troll, whatever.

2) There are two systems of enhancements: the "old way" and the "new way." The old way is where you buy them from a store- TO's, then DO's (available from level 12+), then SO's (available from level 22+). They work adequately well, are always available from stores, and have a known (reasonable) price. The new way is the invention system (called "IO's" somewhat inaccurately.) You can be a little better than SO's for about the same price, to a LOT better than SO's for... as much money as you can get. You can ALWAYS spend more money on the most expensive IO's. Which, I will repeat, you do not need.

IO's are more complex, more expensive, and provide an optional "Game within a game."

3) The Architect Entertainment system is full of promise and full of traps. Many players have been through all the content in the game, two or more times. Their complaint was that there was nothing new to do. So, when given a tool to MAKE new things to do, they mostly had one of two responses:
* Make something really easy to get to max level as fast as possible (so they could, umm, keep complaining?) - a farm.
* Make something really hard to challenge themselves.

There was a third option:
* Tell the stories they've always wanted to hear. Make up their own badguys.
Unfortunately, the AE has very few actual limits on how hard you can make something, and your dream badguy may be a LOT harder than normal content. Or a LOT harder for certain types of characters. Or for solo characters, or teams. And many people trying to tell a story were not your "A" english students.

The result is that most AE arcs are boring, impossible, or hideously wrong in one of six or eight different ways.

What I'm saying is that AE is not somewhere I think you should start.