Did you ever start the game in Galaxy City?

[adarict]

I only started in Galaxy when I created characters on Virtue.  My main home server was Guardian, and I generally started in Atlas there.  On Virtue, I just did it by habit, since I had friends who did a lot of RP, and they all hung out in the park in Galaxy.

[healix]

There were a few characters I started i Galaxy. It was so much less crowded than Atlas, and it provided a change from the Atlas missions for my lowbies.

[General Idiot]

For a long time, I'd start in Atlas if I wanted to play with other people, and in Galaxy for when I felt like soloing the first few levels.

[Mouse-Man]

Usually, Galaxy was a lot more laid back of an environment to me than Atlas. Really hated when they took that option away from me.

[Feycat]

Every. Single. Time.

GC was my zone.

[Lycantropus]

Often, actually. My main started there. Of course, at the time I didn't have a preference or understand the distinction. Though I will have to say it was nice, as I got to explore the world in a more quiet 'go-at-your-own-pace' kind of way that let me get comfortable with playing an MMO in the first place

Afterward, I liked Galaxy because of the quiet. As a low level character I liked the idea of a more intimate, personal story that eventually opened up to the 'bigger world' of super heroes and mass teaming. It gave me a moment to understand my character's motivations and while not a big 'role-player' in team play, that mattered to me in terms of the rest of that character's development from my own perspective.

When I developed a character with my SG, I went to Atlas because it was convenient, but usually, when I made one just for fun and nobody else was on... I'd go to Galaxy.

Lyc~

[Optimus Dex]

I actually prefered starting in Galaxy over Atlas Park, because the lower population meant less lag, and fewer noobs acting like idiots... Besides, it was much better laid out for street sweeping to get through those first few grueling levels.

My experience also.

[corvus1970]

Take me down to Galaxy City,
Where the newbies are green,
And the Vahz ain't pretty.
Oh won't you please take me HOOooOOOOME!

[Eoraptor]

Take me down to Galaxy City,
Where the newbies are green,
And the Vahz ain't pretty.
Oh won't you please take me HOOooOOOOME!

Plus 5

if the fucking game wer running, we could make that into an AMV

[silvers1]

I always started my characters in galaxy city before it was removed.    For one, it was much quieter - not so much spam.
Second, it was much easier to get around in for a toon with no travel powers.  AP could be a nightmare.

[Pinnacle Blue]

I think I started maybe a couple characters there just so the zone wouldn't go completely unused on Pinnacle.  (Little did I know...)  Right before they nuked it, a bunch of us from Pinnbadges got in front of BABs and did the holdtorch emote.  If only I'd thought to take a screencap.

[FatherXmas]

Take me down to Galaxy City,
Where the newbies are green,
And the Vahz ain't pretty.
Oh won't you please take me HOOooOOOOME!

Plus 5

if the fucking game wer running, we could make that into an AMV

Almost done before.  2:48 mark (near the end).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDplsOZe53Q

[Heroid]

After I discovered the Gemini Park RP scene on Virtue, I started all of my characters in GC until they destroyed the zone.  Many Virtuites mourned the loss of Gemini Park, even though it had long since lost it's reputation as the gathering place for rp'ers.

[Mistress Urd]

I ran 5 through GC. Never did it again.

[dwturducken]

When the info for Freedom was released, and it was revealed that Galaxy City was to be destroyed, every character started in GC, for the exploration badges. If I didn't feel like street sweeping my way through them, I was pretty good at avoiding mobs. With the GvE jump pack, even the Bird Watcher and Tank badges were accessible easily enough.

The only time my Friday night friends and I decided, as a group, to spawn in GC was when one guy made a PB named Interplanet Janet. Cause, you know, she's a Galaxy girl. *rimshot*

[JWBullfrog]

The only time my Friday night friends and I decided, as a group, to spawn in GC was when one guy made a PB named Interplanet Janet. Cause, you know, she's a Galaxy girl. *rimshot*

...a solar system miss from a future world...
 
That's right kids, an old time reference.

[Dr. Gemini]

I started close to 3/4 of my characters in Galaxy. Originally I would switch off between the two when starting a new character. When the AE buildings went up, I'd start most of my new characters there because I'd start using AE story arcs (with over 100 characters I'd run the official missions more than I ever wanted to) and it was much calmer than the farming spam in Atlas.

[dwturducken]

...a solar system miss from a future world...
 
That's right kids, an old time reference.

Actually, the rimshot was just to be silly. The guy actually did create the character as described, and we did start that evening in Galaxy for that exact reason. Being a bunch of guys in our 40s, though, we did find it way[/] funnier than it probably was.

[MWRuger]

Sure. It was kind of let down because you had to go to Atlas to access Wents or the City Hall.

I didn't hate when they destroyed Galaxy, but I would have preferred a merged zone or even a neighborhood in Atlas called Galaxy stuffed with recovered statues and businesses (Arena and Hero Corps or whatever it was). I would have liked to see Galaxy Girl moved.

[thunderforce]

Practically always. (Judging by this thread, we all did, which makes me wonder where the jolly chatter in Atlas came from.)