Servers?

I notice 2 servers are always yellow while the rest are green(in regards to population). Is there any wait time related to this and would there be an advantage to playing on these servers over the others?

Also, i'm rather new so do I need to worry about completely screwing up my character? What's there to do at late game?

We don't (generally) have queues or any other sort of wait time. The indicators are of load, not population.

Advantage to playing on the other servers: Different population, different attitude, no mass AE farm spam in Atlas.

As for screwing up a character - no. You really have to kind of work at making a character unplayable/useless. Even if you mess up, you can use a dual build to start over at 10 (or split to, say, a solo/group build, or whatever,) and you get another at 50.

Most of the game is between 1-50, content wise. It's not a rush to the end. But they have started putting in Incarnate trials and the like, with new powers and such. System's still being expanded. (Not to mention other task forces, mothership raids and the like.)

See my Guides and Tutorials

I have seen a queue to get onto Freedom once and Virtue twice. These were during Developer Events, and on one double-xp weekend.

Never had a wait anywhere else, but then I pretty much am only on Virtue these days.

Other when you first log in, of course, the top server is the last one you logged into. Otherwise, top to bottom, they are listed from lightest to heaviest load. As mentioned load isn't population although population does affect load.

And welcome.

Also, don't be afraid to make a bunch of characters.

I remember enhancements ( i think it was called) during my trial period way back in the day. Can someone better explain this? Is there a limit to how many enhancements I can use? What happens if i hit a limit?

Also, i remember reading something about bases/hideouts?

So based on a quick scan, does the origin you pick truly matter or are the same origin enhancements available to all origins (you just have to get the ones for your origin) I know that was worded poorly.. hope you understand the question lol

The only time origin is "big" is for Trick Arrow - most like Tech or Magic because the origin power does energy damage and will lite up Oil Slick.

Yeah, beyond some minor things (there's an unlockable store in faultline that offers select SOs a bit earlier than normal, but the selection is a bit different between origins), origin is largely cosmetic.

One thing you might consider while choosing an origin is the pool of titles you can choose from at level 25. If you want your character to be (for example) "The Glorious Kurama35" you'd need to be of the science origin (also, alignment plays a role).

Personally I tend to pick origin in one of two ways; The actual origin of the powers, Or how the character enhances those powers (And on a couple of new characters, based on the what the incarnate artifact turns into to form the link to the well in Mender Ramiel's arc).

The lower population servers have more of a 'small town' feel to them, there's less people around but they tend to know each other better (newcomers are certainly welcomed though.) A major key to finding groups is to join the Global Channel(s) for your server. Checking the forums for the server in question will probably get you the names of these channels pretty quickly (they are player run and hence don't have standardized names from server to server.)

I will note that finding low level groups can be a bit difficult at times on the low population servers because of the relatively new incarnate content for level 50's. This does seem to be slacking off somewhat with people getting tired of grinding the incarnate trials and playing lower level characters to get away from them.

The link below describes some of the PERCEIVED characteristics of the different servers. Be warned that these descriptions are based on perceptions of the larger community and much of the information is very dated. I play almost exclusively on Victory and doubt that it really has a higher concentration of LGBT or Euro players than average. But then I could be wrong and be the only straight American on the server. It's not something I've bothered asking about.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Servers

Freedom and Virtue are certainly easier to get teams on than other servers, especially if you are new. However, I found them to be a bit laggy for my tastes.

If you can get on a global server for the server you choose, then population won't matter. Global channels allow you to get a team almost all the time.

Characters: these forums have an Archetypes section where you can ask questions about your character, and also they also have player made guides how to build and level your character. If you check those, there's almost no way to make a "bad" character except on purpose.

Enhancements: There's no practical way to "run out" of enhancements, although you can put at most six slots for enhancements in each power. The Archetypes forum I mention above will let you know the best ways to use those slots.

I was mostly worried about being useless in group combat. In WoW, you don't get into a raid group if you don't know what you're doing.

A couple more questions, what's the difference between playing a praetorian(? If that's the right name) and a plain ole hero/villain?

Bases are only for supergroups? Not just individuals?

Is the "sidekick" system any good or used at all?

How's pvp on this game? I haven't seen a good, balanced pvp system in awhile..

I gotta say, I'm pretty impressed by this community so far. Seems like a lot of people are just interested in helping. Big change compared to the other MMOs I've played.

Thanks for all the help so far ^^

I keep coming up with questions as I'm playing lol..

1) Is there some kind of "quick guide" to archetypes, like which role each AT falls under?
2) Badges are essentially this game's achievement system correct?