I can't seem to stay interested in any one character.

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On 9/21/2024 at 8:45 PM, Mimpyyme said:

I have been playing this game for not that long, maybe 2 months, but I have already racked up 11 characters and if you count deleted characters that number jumps to close to 20. Because of all these characters, the average level is around 10, and many have over 30 days offline. I doubt there would even be a solution to this, but if by chance anyone else has had this problem and solved it, please tell me! 

 

 

You are obviously on the correct path! Do not turn away!

 

On 9/21/2024 at 8:45 PM, Mimpyyme said:

I don't think the words "problem" and "solution" were what I was going for here. What I was trying to say is that I want to play new content, or in the case of the more story-rich Praetoria (Which is mainly what I play), the full story and lore. I am worried that if I keep playing the beginner areas/experiencing the same stories, I will eventually lose interest. 

 

Here's the trick.

Content is new not only when you play it the first time but when variables change.

 

If you think up a good character conception, make the character. Rotate ones you play! Feel like a blaster today? pull  out a blaster. Feel like "Batman" bring out that sneaky scrapper or stalker! Breath that fresh air of creativity.

 

But what really gets me - in addition to the creativity of creating characters and playing them from their point-of-view - is teaming.

And I'm talking about PUGing more than playing with a fixed supergroup team.

 

Sure I play with a few in a supergroup. We start out with a basic theme, create characters based around that theme, and level up together.

Fun enough, things change as we level up, group dynamics and tactic change.

 

 

But a PUG! Oh, a glorious PUG!

People that you may or may not have gamed with before. A hodgepodge of powers. People that actually want to work together as a team, and renegades that aren't paying any attention to what the other players are doing. Are you going to help the cohesion of the team? Are you going to increase the chaos?!

What one might think is the same-old-same-old content turns into something entirely different.

 

But then I have over 176 characters at this point ... I better go update my spreadsheet ...

 

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On 9/22/2024 at 7:21 AM, Mimpyyme said:

I think I'm just losing interest. This has been a thing in my life in general, where I just want to do everything, I don't want to miss out on anything. Like for example, I play 5 instruments. This might be what you were talking about with alt-envy, where something seems cool on the outside before you use it/learn to play it, because you've only seen someone very high leveled/very skilled use it.

 

I also want higher level characters to experience higher level stories/locations like the Rikti war zone and its missions and task force, or other places like that.

 

Lots of good advice already in this thread! A few things I have not seen mentioned and which might be relevant and/or useful to you, OP:

 

1) You mentioned preferring Praetorian content. I happen to agree that goldside (i.e. Praetoria) has some of the best storytelling in the game, but it is also tougher content than blueside or redside.(*) What this means to you is that levelling takes a bit longer than it would if you played in Paragon City or the Rogue Isles instead. So if you really want to make it to higher levels, you will find it easier on blue- or redside. You will also find more teams to play with there than in Praetoria, and teaming makes the levels fly by.

(*) Admittedly, not everyone agrees that goldside is generally tougher, but at least a non-zero percentage of the game's population think so. So take that statement for what it's worth.

 

2) Which server do you play on? At the risk of stating the obvious, you will level much more quickly if you are on one of the servers which have double exp. You can move your characters to a different server for free, you only have a limited number of tokes to do this but they refresh within a few days.

 

3) You don't need to get all the way to level 50 to feel like your character is fully matured, skill-wise. Opinions vary, but personally I usually find that a character feels woefully incomplete until the low 20s, then it gradually begins to come together, and somewhere in the mid 30s it feels pretty much complete. Yes, you get more skills and a lot more slots from the mid-30s up to 50+3, but they don't make the char significantly different, they just make it better at what it already is.

 

YMMV, of course, but my point here is that you are closer to your goal of "sticking with a character until completion" than you might think. If you have played several of your characters to the mid-teens levels or maybe even close to lvl 20, you are only a few hours' teaming away from that 30+ level range where (according to me) you will feel like you have arrived.

 

And just to be clear: I am not saying you HAVE to level up quickly. Most of us old-timers here will advise you to take your time and enjoy the ride. But if you are frustrated about your characters being stuck in low levels, then the above points might help you with that.

 

Whatever you end up doing, I hope you enjoy it.