Do you like making lots of characters or playing just one/a few?
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Ad Astra,
Posted on: 2011-12-28 08:23 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
True story.
I once had a character I enjoyed so much, around level 25 his story started to flesh out to include a sidekick.
I created the sidekick and got him to 25, then ended up playing him exclusively for a while. I eventually developed the story to have the 'Hero' be injured and end up passing the mantle to his sidekick.
At level 45 I bought a rename token, buried the hero, and took up the mantle!
Ended up being one of the more engrossing tales I've created over the years. 
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My name sake has been rerolled into a different powerset 10-15 times, and made it to 50 about 8-13 of those times (just couldnt get into AR and Archery 
). But that's more me trying to find just the right feel for her (and why I make some of the suggestions I do 
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Really that's my main character and most played, and it's often times funny to see people say "I thought you were [insert this AT and Powerset combo here]" and have other people respond "That was last week"
Needless to say, Paragon Studios has made some money off me for rename tokens.
I do come up with other concepts that I quite enjoy, but don't stay with as often for different reasons and of some of those, I've rerolled into new powersets as well.
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At this point on my home server, I have 33 characters. Of those, 12 are non-50s, and of those, 10 are locked to someone else's progress. So yeah, I'm an altaholic, but I do make sure my characters get some love.
I've gotten 82 toons to lvl 50, of those I only have 8 50s left (the rest deleted). I don't really make any other toons unless I plan on IOing, accolading, and incarnating it out. Of my 8 toons, 1 is my namesake, 1 is my main, and the other 6 are my TF/trial runners. I typically only play any of em if they need some sort of progression.
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I agree with Wing Leader, once you find your "One" you don't really play other characters.
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Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
Ended up being one of the more engrossing tales I've created over the years. |
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I have 20 50's and counting. When I make a new one, I usually play it up to 50 or if it doesn't make it that far it'll get deleted or shipped off to a random server. I haven't had alot of time to play this past year so my leveling speed has slowed alot. I have three projects I'm working on and they're all in the 30's and I've just about leveled them evenly and one new concept to make. Whenever I get something to 50 I'll work on getting it IO/Incarnated out before I work on anything else.
I have three 50's I play regularly when I'm not in the mood to play a lowbie. After I get the 4 I'm working on to 50, I'll most likely stay away from the low level stuff until some new great powerset comes out that catches my attention. I did reroll my BS/Inv scrap into a TW/EA scrap recently. That's the only time I've ever deleted something high level because a better thematic set came out.
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In total I guess somewhere between 35 and 40 characters, most on my main server Defiant.
Got 16 of them at 50, most of them alpha slot unlocked but only a few with some IO sets and two so far with any incarnate unlocked and slotted beyond alpha.
Of those that are at 50, 8 of them are dominators, which have been my long term favourite archetype. More recently though most of my time has gone into my Kheldians - they are right at the top with dominators at the moment as archetypes I enjoy playing.
At any given time I probably rotate between 3-6 characters, but which characters that may be varies over time.
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My name is Mental Maden and I'm an altoholic.
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I don't really have a main. My gig is that I only get characters to 50 who I really do enjoy playing. I don't stop enjoying playing them when they get to 50, so I tend to keep playing them, which leaves less time to create and level new characters.
Before I9 and inventions, I was not this way. We had much less repeatable content back then, and there were no long-term goals to shoot for, so even though I still enjoyed my characters I played most, playing them at 50 was too listless. As a result, I tended to stop just shy of 50 with them and only break them out for special stuff. I created alts instead.
By the time enough content and goals existed to motivate me to play characters at 50, I had already created a decent stable of alts. I have hit 50 on most of the ones I really enjoy, with a couple left who I have trouble getting to from playing the 10 that have already hit 50.
Most of my time is spent playing one of those 10 50s.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
I have about 78 characters.
On Virtue.
Many of my other free slots on other servers are filled too.
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I tend to rotate between a handful of heroes and play them thoroughly.
Initially, I was clearly not an altoholic; I was a piker.
But after playing for nearly 7 years, I have 10 lvl 50s, another half-dozen who could ding 50 at any moment and some heroes that I realize that I have not logged onto for six months or more.
I have probably around 32 heroes total now. Does having that many qualify me as an "altoholic" or am I still a piker because of how long it took to get that many?
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"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
I have 10 characters across all servers that I take seriously. All of them have fully fleshed out backstories and concepts, costumes I spent dozens of hours designing, top-tier powerset combos, >10bn inf all-T4 incarnate builds, and what I consider good names. Quality over quantity. But I don't have mains or self-insert characters, either. All my characters ought to be just as worthy of my time.
I make a lot of characters and focus on whichever feels the most fun at the time. Because of this I have characters covering all lvl ranges spread among the servers, but only 4 lvl 50s.
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Define "lots". I have 44 toons, mostly on Victory, and around 20 or so 50s.
This does not seem excessive. 
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When I still has two accounts, I think I had something like 130 characters. Not sure what the count is today. I think I have something like twenty-five 50s (although only about a half-dozen are level-shifted...don't really care for the Incarnate content).
Some of the other games I play have very limited numbers of available character slots...and it's quite an adjustment for me!
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Altaholic.
Alts for me, though I typically focus on only a small handful at a time. Right now I'm playing 3-4 of them seriously, and when they reach 50 I'll start working on new/previously made but backburnered toons.
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I have about 45 characters, but I generally pick about 5-10 at a time and rotate among them. No such thing as a "main."
34 heroes,
20 villains, Victory, Justice, Infinity, Virtue, Triumph, Exalted -- some more active than others
I started off just playing one charactor and when i got her up to lvl 50 i then started another but did not stick to playing just one, i played with several until one would strike my fancy and i would take them to fifty after 12 or so 50s i am still pretty much doing the same, i do not deleate the alts that didnt strike my fancy at the time, i do infact give them several tries to get me excited with them.
Triumph Charactors: Tabby Cat: 50 Claws/Regen
Isabella Ice: 50 ice/ice
Wondderland: 50 ice/cold
Mindfull: 50/Kin
Usually I have 1 maxed out "main" toon who I play 3-4 nights a week, and 1 alt who gets the rest of the playtime. The alt changes every few months. The main has only changed once.
I gotta make pain. I gotta make things right. I gotta stop what's comin'. 'Least I gotta try.
I am one who focuses more on concept then anything else when I create a character. Some concepts get shelved for months while I try and find the right power sets to go with them.
However now days I really am rather tied to a number of my older characters who almost like a real heroes mask have become 2nd identities I oft times feel compelled to take up just to make sure the city is not deprived thier presence.
Mostly just one, all of the others are diversions of some sort.
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A have 15 alts - all thematically connected, and created a Supergroup for them.
I have another account and frequently dual box so I can play them together, experimenting with their different powersets. Many were created as 'side kicks' to my favorite characters. I see it as a challenge to create unique and visually different characters.
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