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Super Groups and Character Slots

AmazingMOO

By AmazingMOO,
Posted on: 2011-06-21 24:07 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Right now, I have 36 slots opened on my server of choice, Victory, and have several free extra slots that I haven't redeemed yet.

I'm certain that there's still a lot more clarification yet to be done on how the character transfers and extra slots are going to work.

One of the (but certainly not the only) reasons that my characters all live on Victory is because they all belong to the same Super Group, both in backstory and in the Super Group registration. About half of them are 50. I'm already transferring unplayed characters off of Victory in order to make new alts there.

With new power sets and new character slots being made available, I'm certainly going to go well over the 36 character limit. Again. Despite free transfers.

It'd seem to make sense at this point to remove one of two key limitations here:

a) Remove the 36 character per server limit so that players can choose to add more characters to the same server, including the new VIP server when it comes online

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b) Allow supergroups to have members and/or coalitions across multiple servers

Thoughts?

 

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I would like them to allow the SG across servers.

In fact I wish they would do away with the current server system altogether and move to one where you select your toon, then select which server you want to play on.

By the way, all these years and I never knew you played on Victory!

Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?

Arc Name: Tsoo In Love
Arc ID: 413575

 

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b) Allow supergroups to have members and/or coalitions across multiple servers
The technology to implement this solution would likely require the same technology to allow cross-server teaming, and thus also likely use the same technology to eliminate servers altogether (going to a model closer to Cryptic's other superhero MMO). It also introduces another name problem - both for Super Groups and for their Members (as right now, two servers can have separate versions of both.)

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a) Remove the 36 character per server limit so that players can choose to add more characters to the same server, including the new VIP server when it comes online
This is probably the easier solution, though either one requires programmatic solutions. (b requires server-communication programming, while a requires database and interface programming. I'm not sure which PS is more equipped to tackle, nor which is actually a larger hurdle.)

 

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a) Remove the 36 character per server limit so that players can choose to add more characters to the same server, including the new VIP server when it comes online.
Plausible, but unlikely. Small coding change, but a potentially significant jump in the load placed on the login server.

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b) Allow supergroups to have members and/or coalitions across multiple servers

Thoughts?
Even more unlikely, and a bad idea to put in NCSoft's collective head. This would require retooling parts of the game engine, and the game devs have a crummy track record when it comes to messing with the underlying code of the game.