City of Heroes New character poll

[Zork Nemesis]

Well if we are bringing in some new faces it would probably be a little easier to get them settled in. The Hero side when I was playing did feel a little more polished and easier to navigate.

Statistically speaking, hero is an easier start, having existed for longer than villains (it was about a year before villany existed). There are more places to go as a hero and the game isn't as story driven (well, it still is, but villains have a purpose in their career, while heroes are just heroes). The recent switch to F2P refined the starter zones on both sides so that you'll get similar storylines from the get-go. I would suggest any newcomers play hero though, as there's a much larger world to immerse yourself in on the hero side than there is on the villain side.

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[frostdillicus]

Hero side is definitely more polished in my opinion. It also has Faultline which is quite possibly my favorite zone ever in the game. The revamp they did on it made it absolutely amazing.

Villain side has the distinct advantage of having Mayhem missions rather than safeguard missions, which in my opinion, are far more fun.

[Zork Nemesis]

Villain side has the distinct advantage of having Mayhem missions rather than safeguard missions, which in my opinion, are far more fun.

Smashing the city to pieces is indeed a lot of fun.

[Ixtab]

Heroes also get to go roaming around the sewers right away to gain some quick levels... Though whether the sewers are a good thing or bad thing is quite debatable.

[BETTEH]

When bullet and I were talking earlier we wanted to get a server and side set up so people could start rolling out. Initially Villains seemed to rule the poll but as the discussion progresses it seems Hero is the way we are leaning. Server however is still in question. I know Justice / Freedom seem med-full with Virtue being straight full it seems. Thoughts?

[frostdillicus]

I usually see Freedom as +1 dot than any other server throughout the day. If everything is 1 dot, Freedom is 2, etc.

Both sides have an abomination known as the Sewer Trial now. Pretty much you get exemplared down to level 1 and fight various groups of enemies, with little to no risk, then 2 hydra heads, again with little to no risk, and you get SOs for this little to no risk endeavor. Finding a group for anything BUT that stupid trial from 1-50 is difficult now. It's quite possibly the most retarded addition to any MMO I have ever seen. It's essentially a free walk to 50 while getting the best non-IO/HO enhancements you can get.

It should be run at least 4 times while leveling up though as you can get 4 1 week temp powers that boost damage, defense, accuracy, and recovery. These go away at level 22, when you get access to purchased SOs, but are quite useful up until then.

[Zork Nemesis]

I usually see Freedom as +1 dot than any other server throughout the day. If everything is 1 dot, Freedom is 2, etc.

Both sides have an abomination known as the Sewer Trial now. Pretty much you get exemplared down to level 1 and fight various groups of enemies, with little to no risk, then 2 hydra heads, again with little to no risk, and you get SOs for this little to no risk endeavor. Finding a group for anything BUT that stupid trial from 1-50 is difficult now. It's quite possibly the most retarded addition to any MMO I have ever seen. It's essentially a free walk to 50 while getting the best non-IO/HO enhancements you can get.

It should be run at least 4 times while leveling up though as you can get 4 1 week temp powers that boost damage, defense, accuracy, and recovery. These go away at level 22, when you get access to purchased SOs, but are quite useful up until then.

I don't know if that trial is avalible to free players. It probably is, but given how the incarnate system uses the same trial interface, it could be one in the same.

We don't have to farm that trial, that's a good way to 10, but it looks like we have five or six people. We could be running task forces instead. Positron is avalible at 10 (both parts), and Synapse at 15. Those who decide to subscribe to VIP or purchase it can also access Signature part 1 at level 10. There's also an 8-man task force in The Hollows at level 13, i'm sure we could pick up a stray player for that.

[BETTEH]

So Heroes - Freedom Or Virtue Server?

[frostdillicus]

Virtue and Freedom are both high pop servers. Do we really want to play on a high pop server? We're mostly going to be playing together so finding groups isn't going to be an issue, so the higher populations really don't gain us anything drastic do they?

[BETTEH]

Then come to Justice so I can play a squid LoL

[THE Flying chihuahua]

Yeah I would kinda perfer a low population server. But i'm new to his whole MMO thing so I'll let you guys deal with it.

[Zork Nemesis]

My native server is Protector, Protector and Triumph are the lowest population servers from what I understand, so low that many of the people you team with can be the same people on different characters. I know tons of people on Protector like me who have at least 20 characters on the server.

[BETTEH]

See I dont want an ultra low pop server, I don't want to have to wait for people to be on just to group.

[frostdillicus]

If we have a static group to run the vast majority of the game with that shouldn't be an issue. However, if you want to roll around with alts from time to time, I'm almost always down for playing. Now, if we aren't going to static our group, then playing on a super low pop server would be an issue.

[Ixtab]

I think that a server like virtue or freedom would be a bit too high pop.... one thing about that is if you team with random people, there is more chance of getting.... unsavory types. Especially on Freedom.

If you guys want to go on Pinnacle, Roirdan and I have an SG set up there. We dont have teleporters to everywhere yet, but we had been working on it, so it would be a good start if we want it to be like a Ville SG. The only people in it at the moment are Roi and I and our plethora of alts.

Oh, that is heroside, btw... and can free players join SGs?