Interesting! To be honest, I didn't even think about making a new toon. The idea never even crossed my mind when I was writing the post. Guess that's what was so great about CoH - it appealed to so many different tastes.
Personally I enjoyed playing at level 50 more than getting to 50. I would absolutely want to play one of my 50's, so I could have full freedom of what I can do. But I'd have a very hard time picking just one character. In the end it would probably be between my main (Fire/SS tank) or my Elec/Elec scrapper. My tank was overall my best toon, but he was so godlike, playing him wasn't really any challenge. And I feel like if it was my last time playing, I'd want to actually be challenged a bit, not just plow through everything. The scrapper was my last toon to get to 50, but he ended up being one of the most fun character I had. Lightning Rod and infinite endurance are really good. I'm leaning towards my main, but I feel like I could very well waste an hour going crazy at the login screen
But either way, I'd probably spend 15 mins or so just killing stuff around Portal Corp in PI...to get the hang of the controls again. Then I'd find a good team and do a couple TF's, ITF probably first on the list. After that I'd like to do a couple Incarnate runs, BAF and Lambda preferably. And then I'd probably be out of time...
...so I'd log onto the Test server and have a couple more minutes of life! In case anybody here isn't aware, the Test server was the last to be taken down. After Freedom went down, in desperation I tried joining Test. And it worked! I logged into RWZ...I was playing the game....after shutdown! My mind was racing.... "maybe they'll forget to shut down the test server!!!". Alas, they didn't forget. I started jumping in ecstasy through the zone, going to kill some Rikti, but after about 30 seconds the server went down right at the apex of my super jump. And that was the end.