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Many of my friends and one of my younger brothers had been in the City of Heroes Beta, and they seemed very excited.  I'd also suffered through the era of obnoxious 90s darkity-dark comics, and I was a bit down on superheroes at the time as a result.  Also, around the time the game was actually launched I was going through a difficult struggle with depression, compounded by an unexpected need to move house a few months early.  I'd been offered a copy of the game by my friends so I could play with them, but hadn't taken them up on the offer.   
 
Many of my friends and one of my younger brothers had been in the City of Heroes Beta, and they seemed very excited.  I'd also suffered through the era of obnoxious 90s darkity-dark comics, and I was a bit down on superheroes at the time as a result.  Also, around the time the game was actually launched I was going through a difficult struggle with depression, compounded by an unexpected need to move house a few months early.  I'd been offered a copy of the game by my friends so I could play with them, but hadn't taken them up on the offer.   
  
As the dust was settling from the move, though, I needed something to distract myself.  Sometime before June 13, 2004, I finally decided to give the game a spin. Since I didn't have the copy I was offered, I instead went to visit my brother before he went to work, and had him show me the game.  When he departed for work afterward, he left his account logged in for me to play around with.
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As the dust was settling from the move, though, I needed something to distract myself.  Sometime before June 13, 2004, I finally decided to give the game a spin. Since I didn't have the copy I was offered, I instead went to visit my brother before he went to work, and had him show me the game.  When he departed for work afterward, he left his account logged in for me to play around with.
  
My very first character in City of Heroes was named Neutronium P.I.  I created him as a test character, with Invulnarbility and Super Strength.  I knew everyone had settled on some specific server after launch, but I couldn't remember which one or deduce it from my brother's character list, and since everybody was at work, so I couldn't ask anyone.  As a result, I just picked a server to create Neut on -- Liberty, Guardian, or Victory probably, but I can't recall for certain.  Later I found out everyone had settled on Virtue.
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My very first character in City of Heroes was named Neutronium P.I.  I created him as a test character, with Invulnerability and Super Strength.  I knew everyone had settled on some specific server after launch, but I couldn't remember which one or deduce it from my brother's character list, and since everybody was at work, so I couldn't ask anyone.  As a result, I just picked a server to create Neut on -- Liberty, Guardian, or Victory probably, but I can't recall for certain.  Later I found out everyone had settled on Virtue.
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==In the Game==
  
 
At some point shortly after that, I obtained the box I'd been offered and began installing the game.  My account was created at 5:54 PM eastern time on June 13, 2004.  This was announced to my friends in an email jokingly titled "Last free man on Earth finally succumbs".  My forum account was created at 11:40 AM on June 17, 2004.
 
At some point shortly after that, I obtained the box I'd been offered and began installing the game.  My account was created at 5:54 PM eastern time on June 13, 2004.  This was announced to my friends in an email jokingly titled "Last free man on Earth finally succumbs".  My forum account was created at 11:40 AM on June 17, 2004.
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Revision as of 13:40, 27 August 2018

Globalchat.png This user's global chat handle is @Dyne.
V badge TimeSpentBadge.png This user's time zone is Eastern.
Generic Veteran.png This user is a Veteran.
Badge vr months generic.png This user has been playing City of Heroes since Issue 0.

Total Altaholic.gif This user suffers from Altitis and possibly Altsheimers as well. Fortunately for this user, neglect of player characters is not a crime… yet.
Badge level 50.png This user has one or more Level 50 Heroes.


Archetypeicon defender.png This user's main hero is a Defender.
CoX Game Icon.png This user plays both City of Heroes and Villains on the Virtue server.
CoX Game Icon.png This user plays both City of Heroes and Villains on the Freedom server.


Origin Story

Dyne was a ordinary college student, until one day when he was bitten by a radioactive MMO...

Many of my friends and one of my younger brothers had been in the City of Heroes Beta, and they seemed very excited. I'd also suffered through the era of obnoxious 90s darkity-dark comics, and I was a bit down on superheroes at the time as a result. Also, around the time the game was actually launched I was going through a difficult struggle with depression, compounded by an unexpected need to move house a few months early. I'd been offered a copy of the game by my friends so I could play with them, but hadn't taken them up on the offer.

As the dust was settling from the move, though, I needed something to distract myself. Sometime before June 13, 2004, I finally decided to give the game a spin. Since I didn't have the copy I was offered, I instead went to visit my brother before he went to work, and had him show me the game. When he departed for work afterward, he left his account logged in for me to play around with.

My very first character in City of Heroes was named Neutronium P.I. I created him as a test character, with Invulnerability and Super Strength. I knew everyone had settled on some specific server after launch, but I couldn't remember which one or deduce it from my brother's character list, and since everybody was at work, so I couldn't ask anyone. As a result, I just picked a server to create Neut on -- Liberty, Guardian, or Victory probably, but I can't recall for certain. Later I found out everyone had settled on Virtue.

In the Game

At some point shortly after that, I obtained the box I'd been offered and began installing the game. My account was created at 5:54 PM eastern time on June 13, 2004. This was announced to my friends in an email jokingly titled "Last free man on Earth finally succumbs". My forum account was created at 11:40 AM on June 17, 2004.

I made a new character that night, and ended up recreating Neut on Virtue at some point between the 14th and the 19th. He was recreated on Liberty when I eventually needed to use his Virtue slot. Much, much later, he eventually became the avatar for my Badgebot experiments on Paragon Chat (as shown in this video from post 11). (FYI, I never got much further with that project. I hadn't solved the question of how to host the bot, and got distracted from working on it by other things. Paragon Chat added a much better badge implementation before I got back to it.) I might eventually dust off the code and use it for history plaques (which I believe Paragon Chat doesn't yet support) or other ideas, but even if not, it was a good learning exercise.


Characters

I'm slowly expanding this list.

Some dates are more certain than others. Where possible, I use emails and chatlogs as a primary source for retrieving the creation dates, but in many cases all that I'm left with is the earliest screenshot that I still retain. Many scrrenshots, logs, and demos from the first few years were lost when my old PC stopped booting due to a power surge. CoH also didn't store the date/time in filenames originally, and some of those that remain have had their timestamps changed over the years, such as when early screenshots were converted from TGA to JPG).

Character Server Creation Date Origin Archtype
Neutronium P.I. Multiple <= 2004-06-13 Science Tank
Renninger Virtue = 2004-06-13 Magic? Tech? Blaster
Penny Dread Virtue ~2004-06-18 Magic Blaster
Crimson Daemon Virtue ~2004-06-15 Magic Scrapper
Usurper Dyne, later known as Heterodyne Virtue ~2004-06-18 Technology Defender
Jenny Buckley (civilian) Virtue 2004-07 Natural Scrapper
Thaumadyne (originally also known as Heterodyne) Virtue
Dr. Gravitonne Multiple 2004-06 Science Tank -> Brute
Still Heart Virtue ~2005-01-15 Magic Scrapper
River Elemental Virtue <= 2005-01-21 Magic Defender
Caitlyn Crystal Multiple <= 2004-08-19 Mutation Blaster
King Royale Virtue 2004-08-19 Technology Blaster
Crag Dorok Virtue Magic Tank
Grim Grinner Virtue Between 2005-10-27 and 2006-06-19 Magic Brute
Saul Invictus Virtue 2005-01-15, 2006-07-27 Mutation, Natural Blaster, Peacebringer
Neferkiti Virtue 2005-08-11, 2006-07-28 Science Scrapper, Warshade
Razordyne Freedom ~2005 Magic Scrapper
Regicide Multiple <= 2005-03-24, >2005-10-27 Technology Corrupter, Mastermind
Incarnadine Tyger Virtue Mutation Scrapper
Aeon Starr Virtue
Steel Dingo Virtue Technology Blaster
Dynamo Spike Freedom <= 2009-03-23 Mutation Defender
Two-gun Twister Virtue
Duke Atomic Freedom
Ebon Blaize Virtue
Blacklight Triumph <=2011-01-08 Magic Controller
Plasmagdalene Liberty <= 2009-04-27
Flare Lass Liberty <= 2009-04-22
Contraterrene Virtue 2006-06-21 Mutation Dominator
Dreaming Heart Virtue
Thunder-Raven Freedom
Ghost.Raven Virtue
Abigail Force Freedom
J. Emily Chatworth Freedom
Mavrigaine (NPC) Virtue, Victory
Keenan Royal Freedom
August Horologium Virtue
Gentleman John Freedom
Captain Keelgrave Virtue?
Black Effigy Victory
Blacksynth Virtue, Freedom
Nikki Neko Multiple
City Hunter 02 Virtue
River Automaton Virtue
Night Cinder (NPC) Virtue