Additional Character Slots Announcement
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13th_Stranger,
Posted on: 2008-04-15 07:36 in Developers' Corner
I would hope character transfers would not be restricted to only accounts within the same master account. As a family, we have five accounts, and none of them share the same master account. Two of them are currently inactive, and it is those two I would like to bring characters from onto my main account. I also have a couple of characters on my son's account that I would prefer were on my main account.
WHEN IS Issue 12 coming out ....another announcement like this and I will bust a gut....stop teasing us with this release....first announcement was awesome ...now its like torture to wait for the release ....its like a buffet behind glass wall.....I am salivating at the chance to enjoy just a taste of this delicious news.
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So....since you're answering all sorts of other questions Lighthouse, what about being able to transfer across accounts under the same master NC account with this? If you don't know, just an 'I don't know' would be nice so we know at least someone's reading the posts and know its a concern 
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We're aware of the desire for cross account transfers. However I don't have any public statement on it, nor would I hazard a guess if or when or under what conditions it would be implemented.
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That way lies madness.
Imagine the possible DOOM. One player steals a character from someone else's account to their own. Characters either lose or unfairly gain Veteran Rewards. Players buy old accounts and transfer their best characters to it, in order to gain the advanced Vet rewards. Players circumvent account bans. Players trade characters, but one of them cheats on the deal and the otheer gets a crappy character or less loot/cash than they bargained for.
Worst of all - far more players would be tempted to subscribe to PLing websites. Most people don't buy levels from websites because handing out their account password jeopardises any other characters they own on (and of course the account itself).
If the websites could PL their own characters, on their own accounts, to level 50 and THEN transfer those characters to anyone who paid enough cash...that would just be catastrophic. With renaming and server transfers now set up, there would be nothing to stop a rich kid buying instant level 50 toons, over and over, with no risk. 
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Eh? None of that can possibly happen if NC restricts the moving of characters to accounts that are under the same master account.
For example, I have 2 City of accounts under my master login. I can't sell one of those accounts because I'd have to then share my master login with another person who could then steal the other account - all they'd have to do is change the passwords. Oh, and then they can get a chunk of my credit card info, too.
Honestly, I think moving characters from account to account with the master account restriction is a great idea. Many people get their spouses/parents/kids involved by letting them try on their own account, but are then forced to reroll when they buy a second.
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if they were to make account to account character transfers possible, they would more than likely make it so that you can only do that between accounts that are part of the same master account.
on the same note if they were to allow it between any account I'm fairly certin there will be a disclaimer reliving NCNC of any transfers or tades wtih other people that don't go the way the user expects it too
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We discussed larger price points like what you are suggesting. However, doing so sets us up for more possibility of being in a refund situation.
For example, a customer purchases 36 slots for whatever nifty price we offer it for, thinking that they can apply them all to a specific server, only to find out that they can't because of the current max slots limitation. We can then envision that they won't like that and, not wanting to apply those slots to a different location, contact us for a refund. Unfortunately, all sales are final (as will be clearly stated in the disclaimers when you purchase said slots).
Given this possibility of buyer remorse, we'd prefer to have the user buy them as they go and feel the 5 for $19.99 is a very reasonable "chunk" to do that in.
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[color=yellow]Very sound reasoning Lighthouse thank-you for letting us know so concisely the reasons against the larger packages. Though would a 10 slot package be too large for $29.99?
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If anybody's curious about how rearranging characters on the character select screen works, I created a short video off the test server. Hope it enlightens you. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQbbMrTJc
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AAAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
Ya got me, ya dirty varmint!
And it's worse because if I usually hover over video links now to avoid this very thing.
But nooooooooooo, not this time! "Cool!" says I, "I want to see that! <clik>"
AAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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Yanno the end of Jay and Silent Bob strike back.. when they get peoples addys and hunt them down to kick their [censored]??
Yanno that part..
Well everyone who is whinning and crying and [censored] in this thread.. REALLY makes me wanna invest some loot and try and do it for realz 
If you dont like it.. Leave
But srsly I have been freakin begging for more slots at just about any cost for over 2 years now..
Go the freak away if you dont like it..
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I would donate all my money except for the $20 thats going to NcSoft
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Yanno the end of Jay and Silent Bob strike back.. when they get peoples addys and hunt them down to kick their [censored]??
Yanno that part..
Well everyone who is whinning and crying and [censored] in this thread.. REALLY makes me wanna invest some loot and try and do it for realz
If you dont like it.. Leave
But srsly I have been freakin begging for more slots at just about any cost for over 2 years now..
Go the freak away if you dont like it..
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I thought about that, too, but remember, you get some freebies. So, if you buy 4 5-packs and fill up 20 of the 24 extra slots, you can then use your two free ones and, in two years, get two Veteran Reward slots to fill up the server.
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This is sorta what I wanted to say. With everyone getting 2 free, selling 24 wouldn't work. And for people who have been here 3 or 4 years, then even 21 would be too much. What size pack would you sell as "full server" that would work for everyone? You would have vets complaining that they didn't get as many slots as newbies did, or some other such.
And as time went on more and more free slots from vet rewards... I just can't see a good price/number for "full server" option.
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Honestly, I think moving characters from account to account with the master account restriction is a great idea. Many people get their spouses/parents/kids involved by letting them try on their own account, but are then forced to reroll when they buy a second.
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Yep. There's several people that wouldn't have gotten 2nd accounts to stay on their home server if these extra slots had been available. Being able to transfer within account to save a little cash would be really nice. And giving them their "deserved" vet rewards for the length their longer account has been subscribed.
Not really demanding this with i12 or anything. But I'm hoping it can be considered sometime later this year, in light of the awesomeness of i12.
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Yanno the end of Jay and Silent Bob strike back.. when they get peoples addys and hunt them down to kick their [censored]??
Yanno that part..
Well everyone who is whinning and crying and [censored] in this thread.. REALLY makes me wanna invest some loot and try and do it for realz
If you dont like it.. Leave
But srsly I have been freakin begging for more slots at just about any cost for over 2 years now..
Go the freak away if you dont like it..
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Hey, we got our inch, now I want my mile! 
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No, we just got a mile and a half, and some folks still want that extra inch... <boggle>
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Sweet.
What? there's not really much else to say about it.
I... Would... DIE.... If this was applied to costume slots, too. I'd die a happy, happy hero.
I LOVE THIS GAME!!!! AND THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT!!!!
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With renaming and server transfers now set up, there would be nothing to stop a rich kid buying instant level 50 toons, over and over, with no risk.
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whats the fun in having an instant lvl 50, you got to the end but didn't play the game, yay that was fun now i can brag about it?, but no one will team with me because i dont know how to use my toon.
All those ppl that brag about how many lvl 50 they have (not all mind you), dont seem to play to enjoy the game, just want a shiny trophy to compesate for lack of RL achievements, "look at me i have 20 lvl 50 in all servers, no friends and mommy still dresses me", that said.... can someone PL my villian so i an make a VEAT.
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you live in space man, Dragon_King you probally have 12 level 70 characters on Victory right now. And you have all the items in your base. Raise the level cap to 100? NEED more POWER!!!!!
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Someone get this boy a sedative.
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Won't work.
We already used up all the elephant tranqs.
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Perhaps that's the problem...?
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Thank you. What a fine way to support the communtiy. I for one am holding my breath...but I doubt I can hold it the whole time.
Sweet more, but 36? isnt that overdoing it a bit
Thats where introducing server-to-server would eliminate that.
All servers would still be separate, but in the case of cross server gaming, I.E. missions, joint events, PvP, duplicate named characters would be referenced by server. For example, *ShadowFire* from Freedom and *ShadowFire* from Virtue have both entered a joint mission, event, pvp zone etc....
Both players would have another tag on them indicating which server they are from. So you'd have something like...
*Freedom*
The Galant Mysterious
ShadowFire
Keeper of Peace
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*Virtue*
The Wonderful Startling
ShadowFire
Troll Task Force Member
It is a system that other MMOs use to a high degree of success, like WoW for starters (and no I'm not a WoW fanboy, I've never even played it, CoX was my first MMO).
I'm not exactly sure at how hard it would be to code it into the game, but it would be a HUGE step for the franchise. Not only for the existing users, but for the onslaught of others that would come to play with their friends from other servers that they were previously unable to play with.
Remember, PvP wasn't part of City of when it was first launched. This would be a huge QoL improvement.
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Additional character slots?! [faints]
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I have a quick question though, I'm sure it's already been asked but let's say that someone will be recieving...5 new slots total, from 3 vet slots and the 2 free ones. Now, they want to fill their server, so they buy 31 more slots...What happens when the server is full, and the person gains another slot through vet months?
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Additional character slots?! [faints]
[slowly gets up]
I have a quick question though, I'm sure it's already been asked but let's say that someone will be recieving...5 new slots total, from 3 vet slots and the 2 free ones. Now, they want to fill their server, so they buy 31 more slots...What happens when the server is full, and the person gains another slot through vet months?
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Then you put it in a different server or just hold on to the token on the off-chance that they increase the server limit to higher than 36.
By the way, you don't want to buy 31 tokens for your server. You already have 12 slots in it. 
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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This is great news!! I cant wait for issue 12!!
I just have a suggestion about the character selection screen. Not sure if it has been debated in the past, but I'm going to ask anyway.
Would it be possible to have the option to log out directly to the character selection screen without having to input your password again? Sorry for my laziness
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Yanno the end of Jay and Silent Bob strike back.. when they get peoples addys and hunt them down to kick their [censored]??
Yanno that part..
Well everyone who is whinning and crying and [censored] in this thread.. REALLY makes me wanna invest some loot and try and do it for realz
If you dont like it.. Leave
But srsly I have been freakin begging for more slots at just about any cost for over 2 years now..
Go the freak away if you dont like it..
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Hey, we got our inch, now I want my mile!