How Long Have You Been Playing CO?

themightyzenith · September 2016

Please post how long you've been playing CO, just to get an idea of how many vets are on the forums. I'll start...

I've been playing CO for 6 years

jonsills · September 2016

Been playing CO since - jeez, what year is it again? Since F2P, anyway. (Edited to add: Okay, broke down and looked it up - sometime in January of 2011, I guess...)

(First started playing Champions in '84 or '85, with the advent of 3rd Edition...)

saburfang · September 2016

I got 11k hours on Champions Online.

...I don't have an addiction problem...

And started at least 2 or so years before on alert. Began as a free to play player but now Im lifetime. Completed every single mission in the entire game on 2 characters (currently have 10 level 40 toons) EXCEPT Sammie lost dollies.... cuz that mission is EVIL... >:[

xcaligax · September 2016

February 24th, 2011.

beezeeze · September 2016

My oldest character was created on February 3 2013.

championshewolf · September 2016

September, 2008 Alpha

If you mean when my character was officially created, August 28th, 2009.

markhawkman · September 2016

Enh, don't remember the exact date, but I've been to at least 2 Foxbatcons

nepht · September 2016

Looked at my oldest character Dr Deflecto. Toon select says she was created December 2010 X_X

I need to get out more -_-"

nacito · September 2016

I feel like a young child :>
I started early march 2015, I wish I could have known this game way back

ealford1985 · September 2016

Technical it's October 11th 2012.

But officially I have been active for 5908 days.

flyingfinn · September 2016

About 6500 Posts ago.
That dates back to the August 2009.

biffsmackwell · September 2016

Lifer since a few days before launch. Would have been here before that but I never got accepted into beta.

canadascott · September 2016

Late alpha for me.

For PnP Champions, July 1981, right after its debut.

markhawkman · September 2016

found it, Tsin'xing was created feb 2014

zemmax · September 2016

Is there a place to check the exact date you joined?

sterga · September 2016

Closed Beta. Whenever that was. Sometime in 2009 according to what I stuck in my signature.

xoriandruid · September 2016

themightyzenith said:
Please post how long you've been playing CO, just to get an idea of how many vets are on the forums. I'll start...

I've been playing CO for 6 years

Why does it say you joined 2015 on your name here?

themightyzenith · September 2016

xoriandruid said:

themightyzenith said:
Please post how long you've been playing CO, just to get an idea of how many vets are on the forums. I'll start...

I've been playing CO for 6 years
Why does it say you joined 2015 on your name here?

When they implemented the new forums they screwed up how long folks have been playing for. The dates you see on our arc pages are just when we joined these new forums. A good example of this is biff's. He's been playing since a few days before launch but on these forums it says "Joined June 2015".

markhawkman · September 2016

zemmax said:
Is there a place to check the exact date you joined?

At the login screen you can look at the date each of your characters was created.

xoriandruid · September 2016

themightyzenith said:

xoriandruid said:

themightyzenith said:
Please post how long you've been playing CO, just to get an idea of how many vets are on the forums. I'll start...

I've been playing CO for 6 years
Why does it say you joined 2015 on your name here?
When they implemented the new forums they screwed up how long folks have been playing for. The dates you see on our arc pages are just when we joined these new forums. A good example of this is biff's. He's been playing since a few days before launch but on these forums it says "Joined June 2015".

Ahhh makes sense I figured it had something to do with the forums, although im sure some didnt join forums until way later.

xoriandruid · September 2016

markhawkman said:

zemmax said:
Is there a place to check the exact date you joined?
At the login screen you can look at the date each of your characters was created.

Honestly I dont really consider myself joined until I subbed, thats the real depth of the game.

themightyzenith · September 2016

xoriandruid said:
Ahhh makes sense I figured it had something to do with the forums, although im sure some didnt join forums until way later.

I'm not sure what you mean. Care to elaborate?

zemmax · September 2016

markhawkman said:

zemmax said:
Is there a place to check the exact date you joined?
At the login screen you can look at the date each of your characters was created.

I have deleted the first characters I created >:( But oldest one was at december 2009, oldest that exists now I mean.

nepht · September 2016

Right for newbies causing trouble. This game was once owned by Atari and had nothing to do with PWE. PWE later bought it ( and Cryptic) when Atari ran into trouble.

Everyone knows The Mighty Zenith/MG is one of the oldest players around trying to say other wise about one of the most well known CO players is just foolish. Other long time PWE users like Caliga on the forum have an earlier join date because he merged his Cryptic account and PWE account right away. Some of us only merged our accounts when we had to or started using ARC when there was no other choice. This is meant to be a fun thread no need for aggression >_>"

Would love to see someone try and say I only started playing June 2015 XD

jonsills · September 2016

Hey, Nepht only started playing in June of 2015!

(Well, you said you'd love to see it...)

nepht · September 2016

jonsills said:
Hey, Nepht only started playing in June of 2015!

(Well, you said you'd love to see it...)

ealford1985 · September 2016

photo Champions Online - Manage Subscriptions - Google Chrome_2016-09-06_17-18-58.png

SEE....i win! 16 years!

roughbearmattach · September 2016

March 9th, 2011

I made a toon on friday evening. Saturday, I realized I wanted to try something else, and tried a few different ATs.
Sunday, I made my main toon, Mattachine, which I converted to FF when I became a lifer a couple years ago.

nepht · September 2016

You can find how old a toon is on the toon select screen.

TIL Strife predates Dr Deflecto

dr490nbr347hi · September 2016

The same day F2P launched. Huh, now that I think about it, that was the 26th for me. Back when I looked like this:

The current version of my main was made the same day I originally went gold:

stratluver · September 2016

Can't remember if it was open or closed Beta. Definitely pre-launch. So...sometime in 2009.

opalflame · September 2016

I don't remember when I joined and I deleted my first character years ago so I can't really check, but I'm pretty sure I joined not long after CO went F2P.

itsbrou · September 2016

As soon as I got a CB code, which was about June of 2009.

deadman20 · September 2016

Exact date? Not sure. It was around the time when CO was going Free-to-Play that I initially started in on it. Basically when Trial-CO had existed under Atari and freebies could only exist in the tutorial. Been Silver up until Freeform Grab Bags came into existence and the one slot I had gotten convinced me that getting a subscription was well worth the investment at the time.

themightyzenith · September 2016

Don't worry about exact dates, it's just to get a general idea.

markhawkman · September 2016

Fun fact: the devs never bothered to remove the Atari logos that infest Millennium city!.

darqaura2 · September 2016

themightyzenith said:
Please post how long you've been playing CO, just to get an idea of how many vets are on the forums. I'll start...

I've been playing CO for 6 years

Been playing since Alpha. I remember the arguments about whether stats should or should not have been introduced. And if there would be other things to do than just fighting. And about how Canada/Desert were not ideal starting zones. When folks were clamoring to finally see Millennium City.

I forgot when I bit the bullet for a lifetime sub.

chaosdrgnz43 · September 2016

I started CO when it became F2P. That was probably 2010 I think. I still remember the Atari stuff in CO.

decorumfriends · September 2016

My CoX team, the Legion of Valor, got a team invite to the closed beta, but I despised it (for the most part because it wasn't even CLOSE to being ready for beta), left and never looked back.

But when CoX died, I had few options, so I came back here in Dec. '12 (it was much nicer, then, yes.

). So, closing in on 4 years for me.

nepht · September 2016

I miss playing with my CoX.

themightyzenith · September 2016

nepht said:
I miss playing with my CoX.

Hey, half of Edinburgh miss playing with your CoX

decorumfriends said:
But when CoX died, I had few options.

chaelk · September 2016

ok first character in list is November 201, however I know I wiped quite a few since I quit Rift in early 2011 to play CO. I played that for about 2mths from when it launched then tried CO.

according to ARC, I have played CO for 7 minutes and 14 secs.

decorumfriends · September 2016

themightyzenith said:

decorumfriends said:
But when CoX died, I had few options.

There's not a lot you can do, when your CoX dies.

kyastral · September 2016

I tried it out on someone else's computer in 2011, created an account in 2012 (found out that my computer couldn't handle the graphics well), subscribed in 2014 (when I got my new computer) and went lifetime in January 2016 (during a lifetime subscription sale). Meanwhile, I was stilll playing COH until it closed, dabbled in DCOU, poked at WoW during free trial offers and spent time with Everquest.

A hard journey but I'm still hanging in there.

salmialmi · September 2016

17 April 2011. The first character I created is still my main.

had2merge · September 2016

Made my first toon on November 2009. Remembered leveling her on Monster Island to cap, since Lemura ( called Lagmura at the time) was too rubberbandy to play in and Vibora Bay wasn't even in game yet.

My first PTS experience was helping to do the VB Crisis and most of us getting stuck during Juryrig's sewer mission. Robobo had to come on and advance our story. Because if you left the Crisis before you finished it, you could NOT get back in.

Still hoping to earn a Dev Token so I can get a Robobo Action Figure.

catstarsto · September 2016

jonsills said:
Been playing CO since - jeez, what year is it again? Since F2P, anyway. (Edited to add: Okay, broke down and looked it up - sometime in January of 2011, I guess...)

(First started playing Champions in '84 or '85, with the advent of 3rd Edition...)

How different was the d20 version?

...and a few months after it went f2p i joined...

jonsills · September 2016

d20? Champs used d6. Lots of d6. Improved my basic math skills quite a lot, learning to quickly add up the STUN damage from a 15d6 EB, after first working the OCV/DCV/distance formula to see if it hit...

It was loads of fun, but it could take a lonnng time to resolve combat, so we usually tried to resolve situations without blasting. And of course, since it was tabletop and adjudicated by an actual intelligence, characters and adventures could be far more flexible - my favorite example was a character a friend had, Non Sequiter, whose highest stats were Ego and Presence and whose most powerful attack was a PRE attack based on saying things of sublime absurdity (bursting into the villains' lair, for instance, and loudly announcing, "I brought the potato salad! Who wants to play Twister?"). She was using a 10d6 EGO-based STUN-only attack, but with a house-ruled twist - if she could make the GM laugh, the villains were automatically stunned for 1d6 phases.

darqaura2 · September 2016

jonsills said:
d20? Champs used d6. Lots of d6. Improved my basic math skills quite a lot, learning to quickly add up the STUN damage from a 15d6 EB, after first working the OCV/DCV/distance formula to see if it hit...

It was loads of fun, but it could take a lonnng time to resolve combat, so we usually tried to resolve situations without blasting. And of course, since it was tabletop and adjudicated by an actual intelligence, characters and adventures could be far more flexible - my favorite example was a character a friend had, Non Sequiter, whose highest stats were Ego and Presence and whose most powerful attack was a PRE attack based on saying things of sublime absurdity (bursting into the villains' lair, for instance, and loudly announcing, "I brought the potato salad! Who wants to play Twister?"). She was using a 10d6 EGO-based STUN-only attack, but with a house-ruled twist - if she could make the GM laugh, the villains were automatically stunned for 1d6 phases.

LMAO! It's too bad such things couldn't have been brought into this game.

How Long Have You Been Playing CO?

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