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How Many Characters?
bballermc333
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I was wondering how many characters can you have, and it is a number per server or number per account????I heard 8 per account but im not sure. And also does anyone know if u can delete your characters?!?!?
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Big Baller
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I don't think this falls under the NDA so...
Yes you can have 8 characters and yes you can delete them if you want.
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And it's 8 per server, not per acct. At least at this time it is.
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I looked in the april edition of gamepro, they will support up to 3000 people per server. I don't know how many server they have.
I must say, 8 per server feels very excessive. Especially considering how many servers they have. I can't imagine why they would give us more than 5 per server (one per Archetype)... in all honesty, I think even that many is overkill.
I'm a casual gamer, so I can't see using all of those slots for any reason. Even now, I'm only using a total of 5 slots across 2 servers and I still only have time to play one character.
Is anyone actually using all 8 slots on a server?
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How many servers are there? cause i know that is only 3000 per sever but what if it all fills up?!?!?
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SOMEONE PLZ TELL ME HOW MANY SERVERS THERE ARE!>!>!?!?!?! PLEASE!
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So far theres only three severs, but FryreGoddess, why is 8 per sever excessive? In EverQuest it as like that and there were tons of severs I had like 15 characters because I kept switching which severs I played on. On City of Heroes right now I have 8 characters created, but I only really play three
. There as so many different ways to create a character (the type of powers you use in your archetype) it's pretty easy to fill up all the character slots. TTyL TTFN!
~Kyuuten~
I had filled all 8 slots on CoH Prime server within a week just trying things out. In Everquest which also allowed 8 per server and had alot of servers, I had always have all 8 slots filled on the main server I played on. I did have a few charachters on other servers too, but tended to stick to the one server as my friends were there. I think it is great that there are 8 slots to play with on the one server, when you say there could maybe be 5 to try each archetype you are ignoring the complexity of the character power customisation, and the character looks, and just moody people like me who like to play the game different ways at different times, At the moment there are 6 character on CoH that I regularly play, I will swap around depending on whether I want an easy low lvl experience or if i have a longer time window I may do something more involved with a higher lvl character. Also, grouping and meeting new people is important to me so i will see what roles are missing in the looking for team window, and come back with a character whos powers may be more in demand. Plus there are just times when i get more satisfaction from standing to one side, watching the melees health bars sliding up and down and firing off well placed heals and other times i want to get out my claws and rip something to shreds. I am really glad there are enough slots for me to try a few options at least, it was always a little sad in EQ when i wanted to try something new and I had to decide which old character to sacrifice. Maybe you think I am greedy, but I guess I get enjoyment from a different way of playing the game.
I recently played Horizons which had 5 slots per account and found it almost claustrophobic, however The characters where not as customisable in that game, but still.... only being able to pick 5 races to try?.... it hurt
It's like Kyuutan said, he's filled up his slots, but he only plays three charcters. Factor in multiple slots on MULTIPLE SERVERS and I still think that 8 per server is excessive. Sure, you want to play around with colors and costuming choices, fine, but how many people are actually playing all 8 characters?
You can have the coolest costume/character/power set on the planet, but if you never play that character then it doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense for you to HAVE him.
I'm not saying that 8 character slots is excessive, I'm saying that 8*(number of servers) character slots is excessive. We're potentially looking at (call it 6 servers) 48 character slots per ACCOUNT. Yes, I think that's excessive. I think that if it stays per server that even 5 might be excessive (again, let's assume a low 6 servers) giving out 30 characters per account.
It's overkill, I do not believe that ANY ONE PERSON would be able to actively use all of the characters available to them. It's beta, so yeah, I've made several characters just to play with the interface, but once the game goes live, I see no point in creating characters I'm never going to play.
Then again, maybe it's just me.
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