Timing is everything

So with our travels, we managed to miss almost all of the Two Day Pre-Release Soiree for CoV. We made up for it, some, by being antisocial with the in-laws and getting into CoV last evening.

• The production servers are running much better, natch, than the beta/test servers. I will be curious to see what the load is like tonight.
  Actually, no, I’m not. I’ll probably do some CoH tonight (more below).

• Got Mister Ravenous built, and joined him up with the Elitists on Virtue. Didn’t do much with him (yet).
• Got Mister Thorne (abruptly aware of all the “Misters” I have as alts) built. Jackie raced to get to 10, and built the CoI and invited me in then quit so I could be the boss. Yay! Immediate crowding around the entrances as folks tried to get in. Duoed with Margie’s Undone. Finally got to some missions we hadn’t done in beta.
• Despite previous understandings of stuff (and maybe I was just confused with the Beta Test server), global @handles remain the same. Which makes me even more glad that mine is not CoH-centric.

The biggest question on my mind at the moment is — CoH? CoV? Champion? Virtue?
Only so many hours in the day.
My inclination is to:

1. Still focus primarily on CoH/Champion/CoJ stuff, in particular Psi-clone (and Amorpha). They’re the furthest along, they’re the “best” characters we have, and we have certain SG responsibilities to fulfill. Plus, they’re fun.
2. Secondary focus on Mister Thorne and the CoI. Again, responsibility, but also the prospect of some good fun. Thorne and Undone have a very … odd relationship developing, sort of the nasty side of the PC/A relationship. Duoing with Margie is always fun, regardless of the folks involved. At least sign in every couple of days to say howdy. (There would be some RP advantage to his being high in level, but, realistically speaking, that’s not likely to happen. He’ll just have to exercise his influence … some other way.)
3. Tertiary focus on Mister Ravenous and the Elitists. He seems like a fun character, and they should be a fun group.
4. All other spare CoH/CoV time to our other CoH alts. Make an effort to get our FP/SK folks on every once in a while. Keep an eye open for things to do (TFs) with our other alts there, but let them lie a bit fallow for a while.

Only so many hours in the day (and night), alas.
There’s obviously a huge interest in CoV from a lot of the Alliance “regulars” on CoH. Especially for folks who’ve gone through to 50 on CoH, I can see where the new opportunities and content in CoV would be attractive. Will Paragon City become a ghost town?
I don’t think so, but I’m a lot less sure than I was a month ago. At that time, a lot of folks were kind of, “Yeah, well, I’ll buy CoV for the extra four slots and maybe do a little tinkering with it, but I like being a hero and plan on sticking around here.” That’s not been gainsaid yet, but, again, a loit of focus this past weekend (from those of us in town) on CoV. It will be interesting to see over the next few weeks, as the novelty wears off (a bit), how folks settle out with their game play balancing.
Mine, too.