Any regrets?

Have you ever done something in game and regretted it completely? If so, what is it? Prevent others from doing the same mistake!

Mine was about 2 years ago, i was funding a major summer long event and with the prizes stated i actually ended up quite a bit short of the funds needed.

My main character at the time that i was playing was a level 45 warshade [shadow waster] that i was loving because of how strong he was. Yet to fund the competition fully i decided to respec him and sell ALL of his enhancements [was mostly generic IOs with a few obvious special ones].
Well the competition went great, everybody was happy, i went to play my warshade and well . . . . he was nerfed beyond saving! I had got so used to being a god as him that i just couldnt play him anymore unslotted and he had no money on him to buy more IOs! [i have this strange thing where i dont transfer money over to fund characters. They have to fund themselves!]

Thus, he has stayed on the shelf for 2 years now coming out now and then and each time making me let out a little "sniff" at how good he used to be . . . . . . .

Dont unslot your characters!

Well, look at the bright side, when i17 comes out you can have another character lend him some cash for new IOs and he can work to pay that character back.

My regret is having spent my 2 free character slots on Victory and Freedom instead of on Virtue. I've made friends on Virtue and so those two slots would have come in handy for more characters, I don't even have any characters left on Victory.

If I'd joined the game just *one month* earlier, I would get the first anniversary badge on my first few characters. As it is, I joined in June and that badge is Lost Forever.

My regret, being the badger that I am.
I had for a short while an account on the US, then I took quite a break. I got reintroduced to the game by a friend, who told of RP events that they had done and I was.. oh yea RP, Got to join.
So I went and looked at the pages again and noticed... I was one month late for transferring chars from my US account over to EU.

Another was to have played AO for between 2-3 years, when I could have played CoX from that time (and gotten plenty of nice Vet badges).

Another that people can learn from is:
I teamed like crazy on my emp defender. I rushed forward doing no contacts in a few zones, like Talos. That is one thing I regret bitterly when I play her.
Thus I learned to make certain to have a contact in every zone upwards. (Thank goodness for the "No-XP" button)
Reason, for buying inspirations in every zone.

My regret is being so tied to my self-imposed rules and tournament system for playing.

Rather than go into all the convoluted silliness (which covers over 2 dozen spreadsheets); suffice it to say that if the developers change the game significantly I feel like re-writing my rules to incorporate the new play-elements. When this happens I delete ALL my characters... no matter how many... no matter how high a level... and start them all over at level 1.

The last time I did this was when Mission Architect was brought out. I have a strong, gut sinking feeling that Going Rogue will see me doing yet another system-wide reboot.

Thankfully I joined the very month they were handing out Celebrant!
My main now has all 5 anniversary badges! ;P
He's the only one though, being my badger and all.

My regrets mirror the OP's to an extent.
When I finally reached 50 on my main, a task that took me more than 4 years (I'm such a casual soloer) I decided I'd vetspec and start the process of IOing him. He was pretty broke though, sitting on about 11 million and some change. So I thought it'd be a good idea to just outright sell all my enhancements and start fresh.
Oops.
Ouch.
He sat unenhanced for months as I slowly gathered the funds. I ended up being so disgusted with the whole deal I just broke down and went back to SO's....

Did I mention that I put a slot in brawl on my 1st toon?
I regretted that until the freespecs started flowing like candy.

*sells LoTG +rech recipe to vendor*
*twice*

what do I regret?

Making an alt.....
then another....
then another....
then another....

ppl! stick to your main! Don't waste your time trying out everything at once when you could be levelling your main up to 50 and get that EAT! Oh wait, they'll be available at 20 now won't they?! aaaaaaaaaaaaa curses!!!!!

I regret not rotating through all my characters every time an Anniversary badge was available.
Now I got at least one character that I'll never play, but won't delete because he's got that stinking 1st anniv. badge and they're not global, yet.

lol, with ya on that one, BBQ. One dusty old rad/rad corr and one even dustier nin/pain mm got the 5-year jubliant badge, and they're not going anywhere.

Not taking it upon myself to start teaming earlier. I bought this game pretty much at launch and played for a bit but then quit because it just felt kind of stale. Restarted during a free weekend, played a for a bit then quit for a year or two again. Restarted again last May during a free weekend then... actually started setting my LFT flag and contacting people who were looking for more. Finding out about global channels and joining teams and task forces. It's pushing a year now since I rejoined and I'm still interested in the game, largely because I'm treating it like a social event rather than a single player game.

If people like playing it solo, that's fine. But I was personally more worried about not knowing "enough" that I'd be a liability in a team or not playing well enough or whatever. I'm glad I finally just took the plunge (which was painless) and regret not having done so way back in the day.

rerolling characters who'se concepts i liked, but was being crabby about powers. I listened to the forums, rather than just trying to fight it out and adapt my playstyle, i dont do that anymore.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Mine? Not getting a PC when I finished basic training. The week I graduated is when City Of Heroes launched.

I didn't get a PC till 2006.

There are more free slots coming with GR.

I always regret not standing up for myself more in this game.

Then again, I would get into alot of trouble if I did "fight back", so to speak.

There was this one time....in Pocket D....that involved a Mastermind catgirl and her robots.....*weeps*