And the mask comes off.

[Safehouse]

Didn't any self-repecting Altaholic have alts on all servers?  I know I did.

Yes! I had at least one on every server. But I also had my "big" servers. Those were Liberty and Virtue servers. Liberty I had full up with alts, and then there were my two mains, Del Mannsfield and Safehouse.

[Sugoi]

I originally made alts of my favorite characters on all available servers as a form of ID insurance.  It came in handy later on when I would "Dial H for Hero" and pull out whatever the team I was running with really needed to improve the team's DPS or Survival. 

With very few exceptions, I was in no hurry to hit 50 after the 3rd one, so I played to experience new Powerset combos and to help other where I could.

[Ohioknight]

Didn't any self-repecting Altaholic have alts on all servers?  I know I did.

I'm honestly not sure that I DID have alts on all the servers.  I don't recall all my characters now, but I'm sure that on one server (Liberty?) I didn't have anything except my Steven Colbert tribute "Alpha 7".

[Power Gamer]

Not only alts on every server, but an SG/VG as well!

[Twisted Toon]

Didn't any self-repecting Altaholic have alts on all servers?  I know I did.

I did not have any alts on Freedom. Other than that, I had at least half a dozen characters on each other the other servers. Infinity and Champion had the most characters, followed by Justice and Guardian. Also, had a SG and/or VG on each server. Except Freedom, of course.

[darkgob]

I'm honestly not sure that I DID have alts on all the servers.  I don't recall all my characters now, but I'm sure that on one server (Liberty?) I didn't have anything except my Steven Colbert tribute "Alpha 7".

My Colbert tribute was Captain Truthiness.  Inv/SS Tanker.  One of his costumes was even a Tek Jansen costume.

[AlienOne]

Yeah, I had an alt on every server. Most of my mains were on Freedom, since that's where most of the action was (barely saw anyone on most of the other servers), but yeah... Definitely had one (at least) on every server.

[Remaugen]

Ah, Hah!  For better or worse, I found it in some of my old CoH files:

Power Set Name: Power of Attorney
Primary/Secondary/Pool: Primary
AT: Mastermind
Note: This set deals mostly psi damage; because of this, overall set damage is fairly low. Pets have inherent psi resistance as well as confusion and fear resistance, and can super jump for some strange reason. . . . <Snip!>

That is pure awesome!

[Sugoi]

I thought it was fun, so I just had to cut and paste the entry for posterity.  And it came in so handy with the recurring discussion of lawyers lately.

[Sugoi]

Not only alts on every server, but an SG/VG as well!

Ah Yes!  A RL Friend of mine loved tinkering with the SG Base Builder, and we grouped our alts together on each server to make a semi-private SG with Base for quick transport and storage of goodies.  Worked out quite well for the basics, and no devisive SG politicking needed.

[Remaugen]

I had alts on multiple servers, not all of them though. My main focus was always on Champion with an occasional a night on Exalted. In the rare event that Champ was down I would jump on one of my other server alts to try and grab a level.

One of the things I would love to see in the future would be easier movement between servers or the ability to clone & sync a toon across multiple servers. While I am dreaming, let me add a wish for the ability to take my toon back and forth from CoX to CoT! 

[Sugoi]

Remaugen,

Here's my 50s by Server

1 - Champion, 2 - Exalted, 6 - Freedom, 3 - Infinity, 3 - Liberty, 1 - Pinnacle, 6 - Virtue

Most other servers had at least one character at level 30+, but my personal in-game activity usually depended on one or more of my Global Friends asking for some assistance, unless I had a pet project in mind.

During the period of time after the Sunset Announcement, I spent most of my time levelling Ramu my Elec/Elec Blaster on Infinity* (1st character I made for the game) and her alt on Virtue, where there was plenty of opportunity to team at the time. During the last month the game was active, I created and leveled her series boyfriend Ataru Moronboshi (who I built as a Heroic Stalker (given his 'normal' abilities in the series).  Result? A few days before game closure, I completed a very long term goal, when they both showed up in City Hall to get a Wedding License, and finally get married.

As far as cloning a character between different servers, it wasn't hard to do in CoX, just create the same AT/Powers template, body shape and load the costume.  I could clone a character in about a minute that way.  As far as syncing the clone to match levels and items, that would be cheating.  Besides that, the journey was always more important than the end game to me anyhow.

I doubt we'll be able to directly transfer characters between CoX and CoT given what they've already disclosed about their version of power enhancement.  But I look forward to the release of their costume creator sub-routine to see how closely I can rebuild the look of my signature characters in CoT, prior to actually playing them in the new game.

* Ramu and Ataru were based on Rumiko Takahashi's all-time classic comedy/SF/Fantasy manga and anime series, Urusei Yatsura "Those Obnoxious Aliens" also known as "Lum". 

Oh, and to those who think it was a 'Harem Anime', it was actually based on the opposite.  Ataru's dream was for a harem, but his dream was never taken seriously by any of the female members of the cast, and in reality (such as it was) only one girl in the universe ever seriously loved him.  (Well, actually two...) The rest of the female cast couldn't stand to be around him, or manipulated him for their own personal amusement.

[Brigadine]

Very true, sorry for the injected humor 

What I mean is lawyers move very slowly and for good reason in transferring something like this. I mean let's think like logical people and we make a deal buying the IP and all the goodies and we move forward and the lawyer says, wait you want to install and run the game too? Well that requires these 25 forms to be filled out. I know where I work that is what happens.

I one time had to get some "non-approved" software installed for a new project and it took me 3 months to get legal and the software approval guys to say yes to just clicking on the - I agree to these terms box so I could install it.

So lawyers add the final level of insanity to a slow process.

In other words... Get out and push.

[hurple]

Ah Yes!  A RL Friend of mine loved tinkering with the SG Base Builder, and we grouped our alts together on each server to make a semi-private SG with Base for quick transport and storage of goodies.  Worked out quite well for the basics, and no devisive SG politicking needed.

Did that as well.  Most of my toons were on Virtue and were all members of the "private" SG, The Super-Hero International Taskforce. 

[Sinistar]

Same here.  Maintained private SG base for storage and transport.

[Acanous]

NCSoft as a corporation will not drag this out just to drag it out as some kind of spiteful act. Doing things like this does cost them money in resources and man hours. Which the dept that is in charge of the negotiations has to, like all parts of a corporation, justify their dept budget.  And however much their salaries plus billable hours from legal need to have a reason more than "we wanted to mess with the American gamers" behind them or someones getting fired :-)

Not to say it doesn't happen like that. See FFXIV. "We just want to mess with the American Gamers" was totally a thing, and they DID get fired.

Hopefully that's just not the case HERE. For both parties.

[Surelle]

Not to say it doesn't happen like that. See FFXIV. "We just want to mess with the American Gamers" was totally a thing, and they DID get fired.

Hopefully that's just not the case HERE. For both parties.

Really?  And here I thought the first FFXIV team was just in their own little world, stubbornly ignoring the unified voice of complaints that came from their beta testers for many months before it originally launched.   

[Burnt Toast]

I had alts on every server except Virtue. I tried Virtue, but stopped playing there after a week or so. I had SGs on Freedom, Exalted, Infinity, Guardian, and Champion. I used the SGs to store purples and pvp ios. I had a 50 on every server; except Virtue. My main server was Freedom though and where I spent 95% of my time.

[Teikiatsu]

I had toons on most of the servers but they were just tests and experiments.  Virtue was my server of choice.

[Angel Phoenix77]

most of my characters were on freedom, virtue, and justice.