Combining Accounts

thyrah

Anyone in athority tell me why STO does NOT allow or offer combining accounts?
I have a strange addiction to collecting toons in almost any game I've played. Currently
I have 17 toons (on 6 accounts) and would love to combine them into 2-3 accounts.
Yes, I'd pay to add the spaces to the accounts to make room for them. I might even pay
(depending) to have the service to transfer them. How about it, anyone game to make
more money off me?

fovrel

It seems to me that you wanted several characters, but didn't want to buy extra character slots. You worked arround it to create several accounts and now you see it as cumbersome.

From a commercial point, and there is in this case no other point, you are right. You tried the game as it is free to play and now you are here to stay and pay. So a character account transfer or an account merging future would be welcome.

People will oppose this saying that power levelers, goldsellers etc. will abuse such features, blablabla. So what, will it end the game? end the world? start a new crisis?

The odds are not with you. Not because the ones that oppose it, but I think there are not many like you. Most multi- character players will have bought slots.

bones1970

they would lose lots of $$$, so it will never happen.

alex284

I think (but have no way of knowing) that this isn't allowed for two reasons. First, there's the potential for abuse, people making toons just to be sold for real world money online. I know other games allow this (like EVE), but STO does attempt to stop this sort of thing.

Second, how would they deal with toons that have an account-wide unlocked items (like ships) on one account that haven't been unlocked on the account they're moving to? Let's say Toon A is going to move from Account A to Account B. Account A has the Patrol Escort Refit unlocked, and Toon A has a Fleet Patrol Escort Refit, purchased with 1 fleet ship module after the Patrol Escort Refit was unlocked for account A. Can Toon A use that ship in Account B? If so, you now have a toon with a ship that has not been unlocked on an account, and people could theoretically make toons with a full roster of awesome ships and sell them for real-world money online to people who didn't unlock those ships. If not, Cryptic now has to delete a ship from someone that they actually spent money on (the fleet ship module).

And who knows what problems this might cause from a back-end perspective.

Also, why did you start so many accounts instead of making new toons on the same account?

seaofsorrows

Selling character slots is one of the ways for Cryptic to make money.

You opted to make several accounts in order to circumvent that restriction.

That's fair enough, can't blame you for doing it, but I wouldn't expect Cryptic to put a method in place to help you. The design is for you to purchase additional character slots, if they put a method in place to combine accounts they would never sell another character slot.

I don't see them putting something in place to help you circumvent the intended design.

fovrel

If they make it possible to transfer a character and I only see this happen as a paid service, the OP can have things come his way. He has to buy character slots of course and pay for the transfer. Unlocks stay with the account of course, so you 'loose' them on the account that becomes inactive.

serhatgs1905

I believe it is not allowed to have more than 1 account and the disciplinary actions is that you'll get banned