So last night I did indeed play around with creating a new character, and here he is: The Gray Bishop, a science blaster:
I’m not crazy about the name, but it was the best I could come up with. I really wanted to call him The Chessmaster, but it was taken (as was The Chess Master, and I really didn’t want to get into l33t sp3@k). I’ve only played with him up to level three so far, but already, he’s a lot more fun than The Homunculus was. Aside from the fact that he has cooler powers (power blasts rock), he’s just more fun to play as. Being a three foot tall superhero just isn’t as much fun to play as it is to look at. And there’s also the added cool factor from this character because he looks an awful lot like Tom Cruise in Collateral.
It’s also worth mentioning that I created my new character on a different server. This time I’m on Freedom, which seems to be the most popular one, at least among Shacknews players. It’s much more populated than the server I had been playing on before (I think it was Triumph) which is certainly a good thing, as I’m trying to get the whole playing well with others thing that all these massively multiplayer games are supposed to be good at.
It’s kind of a wierd dynamic on CoH. Because there are no crafting skills and no property there are no natural meeting places, other then the two start up zones. It makes the game ideal for quick half hour adventures but after awhile you, or rather I, miss the festival atmosphere you’ll find at the towns in other games. Fortunately my charcter is a 6′5″ female tank whose costume looks like she slapped a few wet leaves on her, so I have no problem meeting people.
You should have gone for “Chessmaster 3000″ or some other thousand. :)