More character slots.

with all these wonderfull powers sence the last time i played, i can see my last 10 getting used pretty easily. Has there been any talk about adding more? I realize there are other servers, but when you have a base, and been working on it well sence they came out, leaving to goto a new server just isnt that much of an intersting option. As it is i have one server for villians, and one for heros. But id rather keep playing on my main as for some reason i find heroes way more fun.


Even outside the base, which is just a really neat perk/convience, its all the people i play with are on the server. Just headeing to a new server just to play a couple toons just doesnt really seam all that appealing either





Has there been any word, or talk about adding more slots? if not, have they given a reason why?

Id even pay double the amount they were charging for the first 24 extra, for the next 24 extra..


I hope this is coming in the freedom issue.. you know you want more items to sell in your store,, make one of um more slots Please.. : )

You mean more than 36 total per server? I don't think it's in the cards right now, too many other things to work on that have higher priority.

It wouldn't be bad. I have 25 out of the 36 unlocked on one server and 23 of those have characters in them. And I could see filling up the remaining slots without to much effort.

I knew that would spawn knee-jerk posts.
I say again, it's an easy change. The heavy lifting was already done when they modified the interface from a single column to accommodating multiple columns. Yes, I'm a programmer. Yes, I've designed similar interface elements.

So, unless the UI was designed by a moron (i.e. going from a locked-in single column to a lock-in design with no ability to upgrade in the future), then it's easy. Pretty flow charts don't change that.

"I almost have 36 slots filled?" Please! I have 2 accounts, 36 slots unlocked and filled for each account for my main server Virtue. Then when I hit my 7 year anniversary my main account gained an extra slot -- but I don't know where to put it, since I can't put it on Virtue!

Yes I know, I can't play all 72 characters. But I still need more slots on Virtue!

Third account in that case...

Ideally I'd like to see them add an arbitary number of character slots per account (taken as base of 12/server for 15 servers (~180)) then allow these 'free' slots to be assigned to any server you choose, for me Defiant or the poster above to virtue. On top of these core slots you'd gain additional slots for all the current reasons eg Veteran (+1/year), Purchased, CoV (+4?), GR (+2), VIP (+12)... etc. But still be able to have all of these on a single server if you so desired.

As for the programming, as somebody else said the actual UI elements appear to support updating the amount of slots each server has access to. Though I'd expect the sticking point to be more about database issues than UI elements. (But I haven't seen any code so what do I know?)

I have no idea why there would be a data base issue... How could adding another 12 or 24 slots, be any different than adding another account or 2 on a server? that doesnt make any sence. My thnking if anything its less data base than adding a whole other account., as im sure accounts have more to them than just character slots.


they already have the code for the increased slots, most likely all that would need to be done would change the modifer on the limit.


I wouldnt want to make FTP accounts, for one it wont have all the content, or classes, and 2, it has none of my vet rewards. Which again comes back to data base.. with the game going FTP, how is it differnt if i made 12 FTP accounts, or bought 24 slots?

i dunno, to me the game has been around going on 8 years, and the game by nature is made for just creating tons of heroes.., Heck i would glady give up slots on other servers just to have the ablity to buy more

Hyperstrike, I'm in tears here. That was awesome. Did you create that flowchart or someone else?

I would love the ability to have more than 36 characters per server. I have one full now

2x12 more than the 36 and you'd have 60/server max.

And I'll also put this out there...
If you fill up the test server slots, I did this with the old EU test server (all 36)
And then copy more characters they go into the 37+ slot buffer, and you will see one of the later copies occasionally auto swapping out with an existing character, but even if they are not selectable at the time, when it swaps back in all inf/stats etc are still there, so it must be stored in an empty offscreen slot.

This means all they have to do in code is swap the 36 cap to 48, 60, etc. the only other issue is the storage space to store all these extra characters.

Apart from storage this is pretty low hanging fruit for a future update.

Edit:
The storage must of been upgraded to account for all the Freems and Preems coming in with CoH:Freedom
and I'm not saying these extra slots should start unlocked either, even locked we would have room to expand.