Personally! I created my main in CoH 'Ultimate Machine' and the character didn't really come into fruition until some of the later costume packs i.e. Steampunk stuff was released....But the idea for how it should look remained and I got complemented on the design but was always imagining ways to improve.

For my CoT main 'Citadel' the name atm is open to interpretation in terms of looks....Which is way I CANNOT wait till the costume builder is functional I intend to spend hours with concepts all based on the name....For me I like the look to match the name bottom line!

I plan on recreating Iron Neko , All I need is a power suit and energy blasts, (and a variety of other weapons)

CrownArts wrote:

(Same comment different post)
I'd like to believe Paragon City was just another city in this Super Hero dimension. As of right now there is Paragon City, RI, Millennium City, Michigan and now Titan City (Wherever). This allows my characters to cross over from game to game. Now when I'm creating characters, I tend to separate them from actual game lore in regards to RP story telling. It was the AE missions, and Player RP that made up the story so the different lore of which ever game I went to didn't matter.
Now as far as Paragon City, I want to believe that a singular (or series of) Unknown event(s) lead to the destruction of a great city. No one is certain of what happen, there are many conspiracies of what happen but nothing proven. Perfect for all characters and story-lines of a hero or villain. We can't return, plus in reality it's what actually happen....NCSOFT and one singular (or series of) unknown event(s) or reason lead to the lose of a beloved.
So really you wouldn't have to reimagine your character....They just simply moved.

I know a few people who still RP Paragon City as existing. The idea behind RP is using your imagination, so it's not hard to imagine Paragon is still around.

Personally, with the game gone, I prefer to RP no access to it and I prefer to keep within a games lore somewhat, that to totally ignore it.

Would we really want to play in a game with no lore and just generic storylines of "You're a hero, defeat this big bad who's a Sonic/Thermal, we'll let you call him whatever you want while we give him a nameholder of NPC000001"

Time for new content, new heroes and new ways to think.

I think it's important to a lot of players to take great thought in creating their "main" character, or even each character they create - personally, I've got an entire City's worth of Super Powered character creations - with plenty of classic cliches, twists on old stand-by's, and some other randomness.

I do however, have my one standing main character - Riot (or Agent RIOT) who's bio I've already posted and am still working on writing the background for. It's a character I've been developing for years and trying to perfect. So every time I join a Super Hero type MMO I try to recreate that character (though I've got plenty to toss around between heroes and villains)

I originally was trying to base my toon around personas (read: fursonas) that I schemed up over the years, but I quickly learned that some powerset combos are recipes for disaster. (read: Tanker w/ fire aura) Eventually, I chose my toon based on the most powerful powersets in the game for soloing. I determined a few viable options to become a one-man army, such as a Brute with claws and electric armor, a Scrapper with spines and willpower, a Mastermind with thugs and dark miasma, (read: recharge rate-spamming Gang War) a Mastermind with robotics and forcefield coupled with the medicine power pool, a Blaster with a sniper rifle and devices coupled with the flight power pool, (read: the untouchable aero-sniper) and a Tanker with stone armor and super strength. (read: recharge rate-spamming Rage while wearing Granite Armor)

I'm looking forward to exploiting the crap out of CoT, too! ;D

As well as the obvious: CoH remakes. I plan to make a few that take advantage of whatever comes in the form of new powersets. Many will also be science inspired. Higg, Dark Matter Mistress, Agent Kepler, etc.

Good story :)

I am personally going to go with totally new characters at first. Play the new content and take in the new lore and powers and all that as a tank, then once the operator archetype gets released (and hopefully im comfortable with my new main) I will recreate my favorite toon from CoV.

I will have two opposites, a heroic Tank and a villainous one, and I have a Blaster that I'll have to emulate. The rest of my faves were Masterminds so I'll have to wait post-launch (hopefully not too long...)

I think I will start with a tank as close to my old main as I can get, then work on a few concept toons that didn't get very far before the announcement of the shutdown, and a few that I rolled and re-rolled and re-re-rolled using different combinations but which never felt quite right.

It'll be interesting to see how much of an alt-a-holic I am in CoT.
Because of the requirement for a unique name, most of my concepts began with a cool sounding name which I'd be delighted was still available. That would inspire the archetype and then the powerset choices.
Since there will be no need to reserve a name, I wonder if I'll slow down and play each toon to the level cap instead of rolling as many alts as I can think of available names.

Tracinya wrote:

It depends on what costume parts and powers are available at first, but I've got a few ideas.
One of my favorite CoH characters was Oujo Senshi Kasei (Oujo Senshi means Warrior Princess, Kasei means Fireborn), a character inspired by Tokusatsu heroes (Super Sentai/Power Rangers, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, etc). Towards the end of CoX, I had two versions of her, the main a Broad Sword Scrapper and the other a Titan Weapons Brute to mimic the power ups and alternate forms often seen in Super Sentai and Kamen Rider. I'd certainly love to create a character that is similarly inspired by the same concepts, although I doubt I'll recreate Oujo Senshi Kasei exactly.
My other character idea will probably be a LOT easier to create at first. Rather than basing the character around a name or powers, I took some aspects of my own history and gave them a superhero setting twist. I'm a cancer survivor, so I created a character that also went through a similar experience, but the treatments gave her enhanced reflexes (think Batman, or even Spider-Man minus the Spidey Sense, webs or wall-crawling).

Awesome! Always happy to see Tokusatsu type heroes running around. But you're the real hero Tracinya, your trail with cancer speaks volumes of your strength and will. It'll be a honor and privilege to team up with you one day here in the forums or ingame. Look for the union underdog, the star spangled scrapper, the red white and blue bruiser...Fighting Patriot! :D

Kijeblade wrote:

Most of my characters were based off an idea I had for a comic book I wanted to make as a kid.
So I've had a huge library or heroes, anti-heroes, and villains to choose from.

Same here!

I just feel like many of mine aren't very original :p E.g., Kobra, Sonic (not related to the hedgehog), Zealot (basically a Super Saiyan (DBZ FTW)), Ironi (originally Polaroid, basically magneto), Shock (can you guess what he does :p), Ra (again), The Spider (Doc Ock), and Chi Master.

Others were better :p

My main among my four, focus toons from CoX's end of days, Catherine America (Street Justice/Shield Defense, imagine that!) will be re-constituted as soon as the CoT power sets allow. She chose me pretty early in the process, even before (American Star and Anthem) came on my radar. The lore integration opportunities are astonishing! : )

My other three CoX end of days toons plus a few former mains from years gone-by will be re-purposed...again as soon as CoT power sets and classifications allow. All of them will constitute the Titan City Citizens' Assault Team (TCCAT) for RP and "Mogul" base purposes. Yet each will be on joint assignment to a few reconstituted SGs from CoX. These reconstituted SG will exclusively be those under the old banner of the Repeat Offenders coalition. Of course, there is room in my heart and mind for new SG relationships across the CoT frontier as well.

It's my intent to rebuild Starhammer once again. He started off as an experiment in playing an Energy/Energy Blaster in CoH, and before I'd gotten far with him, I decided I liked the name for a SWG character. Starhammer sounded like both a good last name for SW as well as a great callsign for a pilot, which is what that character turned out to be focused on. It stuck, and when I got the opportunity to do so, I rechristened my @Global as @Starhammer and started using it in forums and such as well. I did more backstory work for the CO version of Starhammer than any version before or since, mostly because of the great folks I was working with from Paragonian/Millenium Knights during Alpha/Beta (I wish my archives of all that stuff hadn't gotten lost). Each version is a little different from the others, partly due to in-game continuity, partly due to new ideas and contemporary zeitgeist. I have a much more complex theme I've had bouncing around in my mind, and I think I'll try to apply it to the CoT Starhammer

Of course, being an altoholic, I'm sure I'll attempt to recreate various other characters from COX/CO/DCUO/etc, as well as make a multitude of others.

I know plenty of people who are Altoholics and a few more with extreme case of Altism. I wish I could help them...or maybe they don't need help at all.

I am hoping once the Operator archetype is released that I have a chance to completely remake my old Necromancer Mastermind. I am honestly not sure on the name on him yet (I forgot his old one) or whether I want him to lean more towards a villain, a hero, neutral, anti-hero or anti-villain. I like gray characters specifically though morals wise. I do however have a good idea of what I want him to look like (although it's likely I will have to tinker with it a bit). I hope we can have robes now with the new graphics engine...it would be a godsend for all my mage-like characters that I am fond of creating.

Criminus wrote:

Bleddyn wrote:
I hope we can have robes now with the new graphics engine...it would be a godsend for all my mage-like characters that I am fond of creating.

You know, I played alot of Mages/Warlocks in wow, and one thing that always bugged me was having to wear a dress *cough robe cough*. The youtube video "big blue dress" notwithstanding, cos its epic, all hail Cranius.
I rolled a mage on WRATH just cos the second extension gave them an epic TUNIC!
Seriously, transmog was the best thing blizz ever gave us. No more robe-like-dresses.

Meh I guess I am unusual (I see a lot people don't like robes) as I am okay with robes or dresses as some will call it and I really wanted robes back in CoX but I knew I would never get them due to clipping issues perpetuated by the engine. If there isn't any robes to use in the costume creator I will try to come up with a different way to spin it.

I think my main issue is though....how the heck would I create a backstory for a Necromantic Hero (if I were to make my character a hero rather then a vigilante or villain)? The only things I could come up with is that he either

1) Puts wandering spirits to rest and politely asks if he could outfit there bodies to assist him in battle
2) Makes necromantic constructs of bits and pieces of bodies decaying underground
3) A mix of both 1 and 2
4) Someone who was kidnapped and tutored by the Barons but ended up escaping

There still would be a bit of a hole though as Necromancers in pretty much any incarnation (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Superhero) have abilities that can kill with ease although when I look back on it City of Heroes/Villains had many powers that could easily of killed the criminals, heroes, and villains we were battling. Makes me wonder if City of Titans would have Heroes having to deal with a strict no kill law and that is why some Vigilantes exist.

I feel like explaining a villainous necromancer character's backstory would just be too easy. I might be forced to make a vigilante...or a anti-hero.

The red white and blue bruiser, the star spangled slugger, the patriotic pugilist and all around liberty loving legend that is the Fighting Patriot may return to trash evil within the US as well as without!

If they're a no shields then I might roll a superman type hero, been debating the name either astro man or guardsman. Either way he would have all the powers including solar vision

I always start with Archtype (in this case Classification) then examine the primary and secondary power options to come up with my characters look and backstory. I also like basing back stories off of certain villain groups for better immersion.

That being said, I will definitely be trying to emulate a few of my CoH/CoV toons that I really enjoyed to start with, but end up changing my main to a totally original alt eventually.

Dunno - depends on what is available in the game at launch. I have so many heroes to choose from over the years of Pen and Paper RPGs and CoH/V that it should be easy to recreate at least a few of them at first. Or I just might do something entirely new - we shall see.

Bleddyn wrote:

I shall choose this Titan (that image came out a lot smaller then nessacary

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Ever since I heard that CoT was on the horizon, the ideas started flowing

First, the Olympiad: Citius (speed based power armor/scrapping) Altius (flying power armor/blasting) and Fortius (Strength/Defense based power armor). I've had people ask me to become fight buddies. If 2 other people like the idea, maybe we can work this out. If not? Then they'll show up on different days

Dreaming Dagger: Melee with a side of zero range psi attacks attached to the strikes. Possible? Could we get that many different flavors for our attacks? *crossfingers*

Depending on how pet summoning might work, I'd like to recreate the 7th of 7. Darkness powers with (hopefully) 6 minions eventually. The name can be adjusted if not

Recreating my SoA Operative Knight. Managed to snag that name in DCUO *smile*. Man in the armor with the Swiss Army Knife of rifles. Top of the wish list would be the possibility that, maybe, OK can get a Super Speed travel power with a Tron style motorcycle skin

And thousands of other ideas, because altitis is my primary diagnosis. It'll feel so good to go all 'mad scientist' again!

Lin Chiao Feng wrote:

I've got a few alts planned...

I wouldn't think you'd get much play time with these. Aren't these pretty much one-shots? ^_^

Heh. I suppose they all have a good enough payload for that. ^_^