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It is getting to the point with me that the Deletion of characters is getting itchy. I really am finding the Need to just have and want one character over the couple 65's I have and a few lowbies. Truthfully if it happens they go to the glue factory I don't ever plan on wanting them back. This brings me to the fact that I deleted two already but a CSR asked if I wanted them back and I said sure. But turns out, I think I regret having them restore the characters. So now I have the conundrum of deciding how much I just want one character, I have Bad OCD with this. How many people out there are happy with just one character? one you know you will enjoy for a very long time? Is it even possible? I find now I am more jumping around than ever than before my characters were restored. Hmm not sure what to do in this case. Thoughts?
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I've no idea why anyone would want or need to max out the number of characters this game allows. But if having the maximum number of characters allowed is how someone enjoys playing STO, who am I to say they are doing it wrong?
At the very basic level, there's no way I'm going to take the same skills for a captain destined for science ships as one that is going to fly escorts. They have to be different.
I gave up on the Rom-Sci since it's become more redundant with Fed-Sci and Rom ship access, and I don't mind having 2 Tac mains as it's become equally enjoyable and capable to Sci in Sci ships even, and I don't like Eng.
The support mains are just that, filling in the missing Sci and Tac across factions, and got one Eng support main but KDF-aligned and not motivated to do a Fed or Fed-aligned one. Jem'hadar are really cool, but only for ground combat which I don't enjoy.
At some point all the grind makes the bit of fun not even worth it, and the insane amount of time wasted, so always best to cut back or keep it to a minimum.
Reason I stick to the 3 is there are some unique ships to the 3 factions, and still more being released.
To experience all of STO you need to create at least one of (sci, tac, eng) and (kdf, rom, dom, fed, tos-fed, disco-fed) so a minimum of 6 characters.
I can’t use the toons for farming, I HAVE to play and level up each of them because I like the game. So I started playing each in rotation until the holidays when I had more time to play and it started really bugging me the story for Fed, rom, and jem were so much the same. I have since stopped playing the other factions and just focus on my Six Feds, 2 each class
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Actually after reading the Temp Recruit rewards I'm not even sure if it is obtainable after the event. After reaching certain landmarks I haven't received any of the rewards for hitting lvl 10, 20 etc. Lolz, I guess that makes it much easier..."DELETE".
AoY characters should be just as functional now as they always were, so deleting it might not be that great of an idea since even if you do not use it after getting everything in the transponder any other characters you might make will benefit from visiting your local temporal officer because of your AoY one.
As for number of characters, I only had one for years, but that was only because I was curious about the game after having played Champions Online for years, made a character, and then the game's incredibly clunky WASD ship steering combined with the ongoing hassle caused by the merge with Perfect World somehow periodically corrupting the combined account credentials I left STO, (also Champions, and Perfect World) as not being worth the effort to keep fixing. If I had known about the mouse based two-button-down analog steering I probably would have stayed (but there was not even a hint of it in the tutorial) and kept up the customer service fight until it was fixed.
I tried again when my Steam group went though an STO phase and am the only one who stayed long. After a month or so I even went though customer service to see about getting my old account untangled and this time it worked
Anyway, when I returned I tried to keep it to just one of each faction/department combination for most of the first year, but then made three Delta recruits despite that, then a few others to test some ideas, then Gama recruits came along (I only made one toad and cannot stand to play it on the ground so I stuffed it into a vacc suit and only use it for the crafting and admiralty rewards for my actually playable characters and for some space stuff), and then there was AoD and by that time I had shifted from trying to maintain "mains" to just having a pool of characters to play as the mood strikes me. At this time I have 27 characters (well 26 and the horneytoad anyway) across two accounts (my unSteam'ed Steam account one and my original one).
Most of them are level 65 but they still have at least some reputations and whatnot still to work on and I am in no particular hurry to max them out in everything.
None of the other recruitment events require the event to be running for it to work. You also have to claim the rewards to get them, they aren't automatic.
As for 90 skill points, that isn't that hard, just get up to 65 and run admiralty every day for the Federation tour. You'll eventually get it. It also helps to try and do endeavors with that character, not just for the random skill boxes, but the xp for completing the endeavor.
With that in mind, though I've always had more than one character, now the thing that makes this game fun for me is to create new characters and use them to try out new ships (or even old ones but with different set ups) and new builds.
I still have my very first character which, a part from being my main crafter, is also my "GW for the win!" character.
I have tac officers on science ships because reasons.
I have sci officers on pilot escorts.
I have eng officers flying on whatever they can get their hands on.
I experiment, because I'm to lazy to combat the many bugs that makes trying a new build on an already perfectly functional and viable character an absolute pain, and if I find something that really works I either have a new "main" or I export the build to another character so I can start experimenting all over again without creating a new toon.
All in all, I have just as many characters as I want to play, because those that don't get played often? Well, they're not going anywhere and when, or if, I find myself wanting to play them I can.
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
Entara Nix (65 fed joined trill), Cmdr Deanna Troi HR (65 Betazoid FC TNG Crew and Sector 001 battle fleet), Fleet Admiral Taela Shanthi (65 fed human tactical), Aex Rotherot (65 Starfleet Academy video game crew SNES and PC versions), T'Vrell (65), Daimon Tarr (65 Fed Ferengi awaiting becoming a TNG ferengi whenever the (^&( they release the TNG ferengi uniforms), General Ogoun (65 TOS Kli converted to 2409 kli tutorial first officer), Creenak (65 2409 rom), Captain Kirk (65 fed eng awaiting conversion), 2 65 Jem'Hadar (one fed one kli), Emerald Empress Melani Di'ann (65 Orion), Hodj Thraak (65 Gorn), Dredj'Nel (65 Naausicaan), Bish Amon'ten Tohil (65 Kli), Commander Charvanek (65 Tos Rom from Enterprise Incident), Admiral JP Hanson (65 fed Wolf 359 fleet), Admiral Necheyev (65 Fed tac human TNG/DS9 admiral), Divatra (65 2409 Romulan), Captain Masc P Taggart (65 2409 fed tutorial captain), Elisa Flores (65 Fed from the future), Captain Kadek (65 Klingon fed tutorial captain that kills taggart), Commander Sela (53 Romulan set during klingon civil war including the durass sisters and Toral), Captain Beverly Picard (48 All good things please update the Pasteur model), and 26 lower level characters including Veril, Lt Cmdr Jadzia Dax from DS9 season 2, Vedek Krin, Morgan Bateson, Captain Jurlek (original commander of bop in kli tutorial), kolez, number one, commodore ross (captain of the constitution class guarding drozana station in the past), Warlord Ch'gren, Zarva, Mirror Elisa Flores, Governor Worf (Worf from All Good things), Franklin Drake, and Admiral William T Riker (from All Good Things) among others.
Wish they would raise the cap on characters...
[The others are pretty much there for Holiday event doffing, daily account endeavors (for example... Toon D has polarons, so I'll use that one for the daily endeavor to do polaron damage) and to do Rich Dil claims when Dil bonus weekend comes around.]
My character Tsin'xing
So that's 11 characters, 4 of which I've had since launch.
I tend to keep just 2 so i can explore both side ships and story lines. The rest i will delete because it is distracting. Jem I created just for the story then immediately deleted it after the story finish (ewww creepy). Most players that have many characters normally engage in role play. I role play, once in a while but not with other character but through different costume.
I would like to get a 3rd main but every time i look at the rep, r&d and etc..etc stops me from creating a 3rd main (too much work and time). The 3rd main is for the last flavor and I do not really have a alien character that allow me to adjust the size of the character. Maxing out that character when there is a recruitment event makes it easier.
Fed side
Rom side
I log into a character, Talk to Commander Arnold, go to my assigned area and kill Voth, shut down 2 sections, aide in other sections, help defeat the big dino, talk to Commander Arnold again to have it restart 20 hours later. Then I refine 8000 dil, collect 20 of the Duty Officer Assignments that are finished (for slow progressive XP), (use to Admiralty as well), R&D, start up another round of 20-21 Duty Officer Assignments for the next day.
Log out
Log into new Character and repeat.
The 8th (new) character might Dyson or may get a quick 20 Duty Officer Assignment depending on their needs (This is my KDF Klingon officer)
Finally, my main TOS captain where I use him as primary for other tasks at the time. e.g. events and normal game play.
It's nice reading that other people have a type of OCD when it comes to this game.
It's gotten so bad that I'd borrow some EC or DIL from one character to use on my main, and then when my main would gain it back, I'd pay back the other toon because I literally feel I owe it back to them....WHEN the main is using it to help out all the others...
I just couldn't see this game being played by one character. There's just too much to explore with different factions.