Helpp! I'm newbie.

That might be a good signature quote.....hmmmm

Dang, that's pretty awesome. Not even in game yet, and already achieving your own small slice of immortality. Ironically, courtesy of T_Immortalus, in a round about way.

And a few tips because I haven't seen it elsewhere in this thread :

The place to go for collected info on this game is www.paragonwiki.com (aka wiki.cohtitan.com) - We do our best to keep it up to date.

As a side note to the above - there is a city of heroes wiki on the wikia network, I'd avoid it (something like cityofheroes.wikia.com) - not only does it have ads, it ad network seems to get hacked and injected with virus every so often.

Character Creation - As has been said, even while stage four is downloading, there is the beginning Portion of the game open to you. When creating a character on a free account, you start out with 2 global character slots. To use them, you pick a server, and "unlock" a slot on that server. From then on, that global slot is now a server slot, and tied to that server. This means a brand new free account gets 2 slots total, not two per server.

Note that VIPs get a bonus 12 server slots per server, if you ever decide to sub. And you can buy more character slots in the "Paragon Market" - these even go on sale from time to time.

Scrappers, Blasters, and Dominators are probably the easiest to jump in and run with, although all Archetypes (ATs) have the ability to team and solo. Defenders are probably the slowest, but that's just because they are more support oriented.

I recommend Brutes.
Safer archetypes are better to start with when you do not know the game very well. Tankers are a good one as well.

Good Afternoon, for me it is now afternoon. You are very close finish, missing less than an hour.

I think I'd have to agree with this. A Brute was my first character to 50, and they've got a very good mix of survivability and damage. A hard AT to go wrong with. Scrappers are pretty powerful in general too, Scrappers generally dealing slightly more damage while Brutes can take a bit more damage in turn.

You might get a quicker answer if you post this question up in All Access Technical Isues and Bugs. Link provided below to help.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=578