Callambea is accepting Free Agents and I am the first one! Thank you, Pax Aeternum, Hobs and anyone else who paved the way for this, much obliged. :)
This means I have no affiliation yet with any Company but will be a dedicated member of the Settlement Callambea.
I intend to affiliate my characters (and thus myself) to Companies later in the game when things start to play out. In the meanwhile, Callambea seems like a perfect fit for my Trading,Crafting and Couriering (is that a word?) aspirations.
(Here comes more talk, you can skip this.....)
I plan to apply with two other EE Alts for other settlements and hope to cover not only a spread of different Wilderness Hexes (as to have a wider pick of crafting ingredients) but also to cover all alignments exept the Evil ones.
I intend to be open about these crafter and trader Alts and am currently eyeing Outsiders(from CBDunkerson) and similar initiatives, covering the more Chaotic Neutral side of things(and hopefully Barbarians that I have a soft spot for), and Forgeholm, even though they do not know it yet. :) But who can pass on a Settlement full of Dwarves? Maybe I can finally uncover the secret why all Dwarves speak with a Scottish accent!
Disclaimer: I feel that some of these more chaotic settlement may fall into anarchy when they attract too many loose elements and Outcasts from the River Kingdoms so when I start getting whacked by my own fellow citizens while I am happily browsing the Local market, I may relocate. :D At the same time, this Chaotic lifestyle intrigues me to no end. As an observer, since I suck at PvP combat anyway.
Later on I intend to apply with more Alts for even more Settlements(Ozems Vigil?), just as I am sure many others will do in the future (though possibly more conceiled).
I do have plans of running couriers between my Alt settlements, where Knowledge of the local markets, shrewd (simultaneous) scheduling of several fast-traveling Couriers and a good dose of Luck will hopefully be converted in Lots of Coin. All this off course depending on mechanics that have yet to be implemented.
At first I will not have a real Main, I'll just have to wait and see which one I will be "on" the most; and I guess this depends on activity, friendships and fun to be had in the different settlements.
After reading this, some people wil think: "duh, the guy just can't choose". And they may be right. :) However Trading and Crafting is my thing(I am a 7x300 Master Artisan in Everquest), and browsing and "working" auctionhouses must easily be the activity that I put most of my time in when playing a MMO; and I just get totally giddy by the idea that in PFO I actually get to browse *several* Local Markets, instead of a single, serverwide, boring auctionhouse! Not only that, but also to think up strategies, and match Supply and demand. So this is all about the fun for me.
Wow, long post.