I have a silver account simply because there is no possible way for me to go gold for awhile. There's some interesting options for silver players to get more out of the game, luckily for me. I'd like to get a lifetime sub because I know this is a game that will stay on my hard drive. Like it used to be with CoH..hmm..still is, as far as that goes..hehe. Someone just needs to get it back online again.. Although with the current in-game CO atmosphere one must at least ponder how long 'lifetime' is. I think CO is a great niche game like CoH and hope it stays around.
Anyway.. Some of my observations are...
The cartoony thing will go away. I had it too. Part of this is getting used to new graphics. My first reaction was "CoH chicks are moar sexah". For example. Part, is getting all the graphics tweaked just right. Some major game changers (for video), for example, are "Comic Book Outlines", "Lighting" (always set this to High if you can. or, at least try the "High" setting.. and then look at your guy/girl), "Postprocessing" On will lighten things up, and crank up antialiasing to smooth out jagged lines. I have to up the gamma some too.
The many options/combinations of how you can target and attack and autoattack mobs will need to be tweaked.. as well as how your Energy Builder fire's off.
The new tradeskilling seems to be, mostly, a waste of time/money/effort. Hope they fix that. While we're at fixing things, CO has a lot of content, but not much of it is endgame big kids fun as far as I can tell. There seem to be an over abundance of extremely weak rewards for higher level hijinks. This won't affect those with altitism so much.. Loot in general seems to be kinda weak but I do see some interesting things auctioned sometimes and amm hoping there's plenty I just haven't seen yet.
Get you a Ren Cen Teleport device for cheap in the AH or wait for it to come automatically as a reward with levels. It's kinda like having an Ouro portal. It says it has charges but it doesn't and can be used over and over.
Super Stats are worth learning more about, I think. Due to that they can majorly affect your toon's play.
I just bought two new toon slots with zen I earned from Q farming. (These last months..) Am saving up for a Free form slot next and I guess I need to find out what hideouts are all about so that'll prolly be next after that. Lairs (missions) are also something I dunno much about. I've got a 40, but I just made my first Nemesis so I dunno much about that either..
I'd be playing right now but the servers are down yet again due to the recent NWO launch...
Wait.... Server's are UP, Baby! Gotta go.. Yeah, it's no CoH but what is. One thing about CO is that it will surely have things to remind you of CoH like no other game can.