This game lets you have up to 50 characters but it doesn't seem to want you to actually use them...

virsalus

I only have one main and seven alts, so one character of each class. When invoking, doing professions and managing inventories and stuff I sometimes need to log around between them quite frequently and a lot of times I will get server connection time outs. It's really annoying. I can't even begin to imagine what people with upward of 20 characters have to be going through. Why design a system like this when it isn't stable enough to actually handle the load?

oldbaldyone

Because if its available, people will pay them for it.

It is that simple.

It gets better when you realize people have been banned just for trying to use all the characters they paid to create.

virsalus

oldbaldyone said:

Because if its available, people will pay them for it.



It is that simple.



It gets better when you realize people have been banned just for trying to use all the characters they paid to create.

Ugh... If that's true, that is really messed up. Guess I'll not invest in any further slots then.

armadeonx

Correct. Rather than reducing the number of character slots a player can make, Cryptic apparently believe the right approach is to allow you to buy up to 50 slots but discourage you from using them.

I actually think that with hindsight they would've reduced the number of characters to less than 10 but now that several thousand players have maxed them they don't know what to do.

In the absence of a proper plan, they are trying to remove the benefits/incentives - of course these actions also hurt players with 1-8 characters, but these guys have a long history of trying to hit a nail with a wrecking ball.

plasticbat

Actually, the limit is over 50. It is at least 53. The limit of 50 is what you can buy directly and that does not include the extra character slot that comes with the pack.

I have 12 characters. 4 of them were created for inventory space. Character slot is the cheapest inventory space in game.
I still have 13 slots unused.

oldbaldyone

I've heard as many as 58 slots...2 original, 48 purchases, 1 from the first time buyers pack, and then the rest from the packs sold in zen market. The only one technically that requires actual money is the first time buyers pack I think.

beckylunatic

I have 53 slots and it's impossible to buy more. The way it appears to work is the Hero pack adds 3 to the max possible, but all the other packs that come with a character slot (including first-time buyer) are slots that count towards maxing them out that you don't have to purchase separately. It seems unlikely that I'll end up using all these slots, but I decided to go for it when they were 80% off. I should never be short on space to try a new class, at least.

As for the "timed out connecting to login server", this is primarily a problem introduced two weeks ago during maintenance. It sounds like it's not as bad now as it was right after that maintenance, but it's still happening a lot more than previously.

tieashame

beckylunatic said:

As for the "timed out connecting to login server", this is primarily a problem introduced two weeks ago during maintenance. It sounds like it's not as bad now as it was right after that maintenance, but it's still happening a lot more than previously.

I have been getting this off and on for a couple months. I have noticed however if I click the Login button and not double click the char, I do not get it as often but it is still there.

sameriker

You guys are making me feel small, I only have 6 so far and sadly I barely have the time to play my main the most. The other 5 look pale by comparison most haven't seen level 70 yet. But back to the topic, I don't think this is due to the number of characters, but rather sloppy servers having to handle more X-Box One users and now PS4 users, than us few PC users that remain. A good friend and guild member has recently left the PC game and plans to create his new account on PS4. This is just my opinion, but I would say, look forward to more outages, spikes, lags, rubberbanding, and network issues in the future.

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tssq2014

@desisti, everyone with different own story

I started play this game since 2013 and now got 10 toons with all classes, 3 of toons are duplicate class due to we don't have race reroll before mod5

I raised my cw, gwf, op, tr, sw to 70 and still play them every day for finish daily & run some dungeons depends on the party require. and also start rasing my hr to 70.

krymkac

Never ever do professions in game. Gateway ftw. Saves a lot if time unless y still trying to invoke on every char till 2nd coin

someonedies

from bot's perspective it is quite simple to do
outside gateway/invoke: AD from event skirmishes, PvP AFK x2 x50 xVIP in a day.