Deleters Remorse

Did ya ever regret deleting a toon for whatever reason ?
i have just not recently i was just thinking about a bunch of my past toons non even made it to 50 and whats worse is i run into a wall sorta with ideas for new toons and think back on how my past ideas were better then what i've been trying.

yeah i thought about that however some of the toons i've had recently i didn't really like compared to some of my old ones lol.

I enjoy levelling characters, so no, I've never regretted deleting a character. If it does bother me that I no longer have the character, I reroll it (sometimes with the same powersets, sometimes different), and start over.

With Vet rewards, Inherent Stamina, and all the Booster Pack powers, it's easier than ever to level a character, with few "painful level ranges", if any.

The following will frighten you. It is the story of compulsively making characters over nine servers then regreting your creative work. Yes, looking around and saying, "this is not good" and thus laying waste to your multiverse. How cruel of a god could you be? Do not push these boundries and find out!

Well before Incarnates came, I deleted probably a half dozen 50's I said I would never play again. I kind of wish I had a few of them back, as well as a few lower characters I filed into the rubbish bin. I think it was an attempt to scale back my altelism and correct random schizo server selection when I first had the game in 2004. Server selection was bizarre because I played for a few months, went to war for a year or so in real life, came back and several people I knew in the game were on different servers. I followed them where ever they were.

Maybe two years ago some of the servers I played on were getting pretty quiet, so I consolidated to 2 high pop servers, (Freedom and Virtue) and kept one low pop server roster as it was my first server at launch in 2004 (Triumph). In this process I deleted characters: namely the six fifties I never touched anymore and many others from one to 45 on those three servers and moved a few other characters from six other servers to the freed up spots. I had at least five or six characters per server on each of those six other servers, with full rosters on Freedom, Virtue, and Triumph, and just got in this "consolidation obession vibe" one night. Maybe it was the free transfer tokens! The few characters left on the other six servers after I moved all my favorites (at that time) I also deleted. I am not even sure of the body count now, it is all a blur.

Often I will log into the game now and see those once "quiet" servers have a full pop again. Then also I will be looking at the selection screen at a character and musing,
"How the hell did you make the cut? What was I thinking? You suck, I made you, I will unmake you!" When will it stop? Can anyone make it stop?

Like I said, I would be a terrible deity. (DELETE) "Oh crap, did you have some inf and sets I could have sent to another character with a quick removal respec, and the new email system? Nooooo! Khannnnn! Khannnnn!" (Captain Kirk rage reference, shouting from inside a planet echoing out into space, Wrath of Khan) Anyway.

Delete remorse, yes. Sometimes I have dreams, I am in hell and my deleted characters are all around me...

I actually don't recall deleting my INV/EM tanker. :/ I don't see why I would have either. Not that I'd be playing it now, but I regret that one, because at the time I remember having nothing but fun on it and when I went looking for it...gone! And I SWEAR I never deleted it!

*sigh*

My other regret, is my DM/Regen I deleted right at the time of the Instant Healing change.

*sigh*

See what rage can do to you?!

My only regrets have been those two. Though I have not, nor will I ever delete a 50! No way! I've moved them to other servers to be left unplayed, but never will I DELETE them!

I just want to compliment you on your thread title. Often, it's difficult to determine what a topic will actually be about because of a muddled or misleading thread title. "Deleter's remorse" not only clearly describes what you wanted to talk about, but it's immediately recognizable to anyone who's ever deleted a character -- I knew instantly what it would be about -- and it evokes the emotion with a minimum of words. Good job.

I've never been one for deleting toons, so I have only one that I can remember. I deleted a spines/WP scrapper at level 28, because I needed room for something else. Considering how many open slots I have now, I wish I still had him.

But oh well, these days I have a claws/WP brute instead.

These days, as long as you save the costume and power customizations your toon is never truly deleted. Well, as long as you keep the files safe at least.

I had a character who was low level but with almost all of the Day Job badges/accolades. I never buckled down and played her but I'd move her form location to location figuring that I'd get into her one day. Then I received a tell asking if I'd consider giving up her name. I thought about it, figured I wasn't playing her anyway and agreed. A week later, he sent me another tell saying the concept didn't work out and I could have the name back if I wanted.

I don't at all begrudge having given up the name and think it was a class act for him to give it back when things didn't work out but I do kind of regret all those lost Day Job badges.

i think my problem is purely i hit a wall thinking of characters and when i actually start playing i tend to find out they are not as strong as i thought they would and thus delete them before i really get anywhere. on top of that i've been playing solo for a long time and leveling solo gets real boring real fast and most of my best ideas come from red side AT's and the few heroes i had that actually got fairly high got deleted from frusteration like my old lvl 40 DP/DEV blaster i was running some Cave AE long ago and every time i was chaining aoe's i'd pull agro and die constantly lol. another issue i had in the past is my creativity tends to play on being a underdog however trying to build a weak character up to be stronger then it actually is becomes a pain.

I Havent regreted deleting any chars, cause if i did, i always can remake it right, leveling isnt a issue for especialy with Vet rewards and temp powers. I have deleted a 44 tank, and a 41 blaster at one point. Then i have deleted a bunch of level 30s, 32, 33, 35 and a 38 to be exact. I dont regret these are all, i just didnt like them.. Even know i played majority of them lol, just lost interest. (All my 30s were differnt powersets of Stone Armor Tanks, just dont like stone)

I once deleted a lvl 45 Emgro on Virtue because I thought it was the lvl 4 one on Justice.

Whoops.

I deleted a lvl 44 fire tank some time back. I deleted him right after they made burn cause fear, which to me made it totally worthless. Now I hear burn has been much improved since then. But no biggie, I can always start another

I regret a few deletions.

One of the ones I regret most is one of my first villains. I deleted her when they changed villain Invulnerability to be black. The character was made with the silliness of rainbow Invuln and the pink pom-poms of Energy Melee in mind. Of course, if I'd held on to her I could have changed the colors back when Power Customization came along. I had no clue it was coming, though.

i know how ya feel i deleted my old grav/psi dom for no good reasons back then except for frusteration over dying alot while soloing lol and the name i couldn't change and not one to spend money on a simple name change but geez getting to nearly 30 was a pain.
same goes for my fire/dark corr simple name change would've saved it ya know ya try to come up with good characters but get stopped by a naming idea you come up with something decent but then you relize it sucked and can't change it for free so gotta reroll :-/.

I almost regret deleting my lvl 50 warshade after I read Dechs guide. Not enough to roll a new one though... Yet.

I deleted my very first toon, a ss/inv brute, which was my very first to 50. I had done several respecs after getting him to 50, and he still wasn't what I thought he should be so I deleted him out of frustration. I still regret it because of the nostalgia factor and because nowadays there are IO sets and stuff that could have filled in the gaps if only I'd kept him in mothballs.

Other than deleting a toon that had a couple 100mil I haven’t actually every missed a toon i deleted. But that is because i keep around toons quite a bit. Like my first toon, nrg/nrg blaster G-force is the name i believe (i don’t even remember the server he is no, might be Pinnacle). I stopped playing him once i found out Power Thrust was melee, so that was about 5 minutes of play time.
But after that there must have been about 100 toons i made that never made it past lvl 2 that i have deleted. One was an kat/SR toon, first toon with a toggle. Deleted him because i felt Focused Fighting was useless, really i didn’t know how to turn on a toggle. Ah, galaxy city...
Crap, that was off topic wasn’t it? O.o

I think I might be on the other extreme. I'm such a packrat that I keep pretty much every character I ever make.

Way back before server transfers and extra character slots, I deleted a number of characters on my favorite servers who just weren't leveling as fast... and eventually, I remade every single one on a different server. When Willpower came out, I remade two characters I'd been struggling with who could fit it into their backstories nicely. One of those was level 33, which remains the highest level I've ever deleted a character. More recently, on Going Rogue launch day, I deleted about a dozen characters so I could turn around and immediately remake them in Praetoria.

I personally don't see the point in deleting a character because they're not that fun to play, or their backstory is sub-par, unless they're taking up your last space that you'd like to make someone better with. In my time playing the game, I've had tons of instances where I disliked a character or powerset or even entire archetype, only to later see them from a new perspective and grow to enjoy them. And as for backstories, it's much easier to write a new one than to level up and get badges again!

An example: For a while, I was playing a lot of static team trios on Freedom with two friends of mine. We would all make characters together with complementary powers. One day, they made characters and asked me to join when I didn't have a concept ready! So I made an entirely terrible character: a Fire/Traps Corruptor named Fire Banana. He was all yellow and his traps were constructed from banana peels. The fire? No idea. Not only were they embarrassed to be seen with me, I was embarrassed to play him. However, I found the powerset combination to be very fun to play, and we'd already gotten into the 20s, which was no small feat for me. Eventually, I completely remade his costume, and wrote up a new backstory, even trying to explain away his name as a drunken prank. And then he was fun to play.

Anyway. I guess I have such extreme deleter's remorse that I can't bear to permanently delete any characters except unbelievably, embarrassingly stupid lowbies. If you ask my friends, they'll tell you that I should definitely delete more characters... like Atomic Lizard-Donkey. Whatever. He's awesome.

I had a lvl 41 dark/dark tank that I regret deleting almost everytime I log in the game. She was a hoot to play, and I never saw her reach her full potential.

Only one.

The very first toon I ever rolled, the first week after release, was an inv/ss tank with the BEST name.

Years ago, when Statesman was nerfing Invuln into pudding, I finally gave up and deleted him to make room for some other chars.

Now, the name is gone. (sigh)

It's a shame, becuz I'd reroll him as an elec/dark in a heartbeat.