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Oneirophrenia
03.26.2012 , 12:45 PM | #31
Why oh why would someone do this anyways? I could understand if someone wants to reserve a few names across 2 or 3 servers that they may eventually play on in the near future but across 20+ servers?

Altaholic is not a valid excuse for this bizarre behavior. I have played what is quite possibly the most alt-friendly MMO in existance, CoH, for 3 years. Even with a leveling speed exceeding that of SWTOR's, I was only able to get 28 characters to the max level during that span. With that in mind, realistically speaking, what are the chances that a player could get through that many characters in his entire MMO career, much less his SWTOR one? Would this game even be around by the time they get around to leveling the characters on his 10th server?

I for one am glad BW made this change. If anything it lowers the probability of someone ragequitting only to tie up 100 or 200 names across dozens of servers after they have unsubbed, never to return. People who have left the game permanently have no logical claim to anything in game when compared to those who stayed. It is either this or BW actively deleting low level characters after a certain amount of dormant period (6 months for example). Pick your poison.

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Andryah
03.26.2012 , 12:52 PM | #32
Quote: Originally Posted by Blackavaar View Post
And again I ask, Why create a game with a tool that encourages altaholism and then limit the altaholic's ability to create freaking alts? Answer that!
I'm fine with the 50 limit. I am an altaholic and I will never roll 50 characters into higher levels. Maybe 16 maximum if I ever decide to roll every advanced class. The rest are place holders that can go bye bye anytime I need a new slot.
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Nicain
03.26.2012 , 01:06 PM | #33
I only have 8 toons, as I only play on one server like most people.

I had no idea WoW or SW:Tor had a character limit. Not sure why there is one, if someone wants to make 8 character on every server, who cares?

I would never do it, but really, who cares?

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LizardSF
03.26.2012 , 01:07 PM | #34
Quote: Originally Posted by Lugors View Post
When did they impose this? I'm sure I am not the only one who locked out a name across all severs. Now I would need to delete 80+ characters to roll some legacy inspired toon. Might be fewer key strokes just to cancel the account.

Anyone else seeing this?
It's pretty much impossible for me to imagine anyone being stupid enough to create 80 characters just to lock in a name, and it's somewhere beyond impossible to imagine they'd then go and whine that they couldn't create an 81st. So, I'm calling shenanigans on this. Get the fire and acid, boys, it's the only thing that can keep a troll from regenerating.

(Oh, PLEASE, do go ahead and cancel your account. If you're telling the truth, you're dragging down the collective IQ of the game every time you log on. If you're lying, well, we hardly need any more trolls. And Bioware hardly needs customers who consume more resources than a dozen other players but pay the same amount per month, so they'll be happy to lose your subscription -- you cost them more than you pay. Good bye, and good riddance.)
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jakarai
03.26.2012 , 01:08 PM | #35
Quote: Originally Posted by Lugors View Post
When did they impose this? I'm sure I am not the only one who locked out a name across all severs. Now I would need to delete 80+ characters to roll some legacy inspired toon. Might be fewer key strokes just to cancel the account.

Anyone else seeing this?
I don't know but you might just be.

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Blackavaar
03.26.2012 , 01:08 PM | #36
Quote: Originally Posted by Oneirophrenia View Post
Why oh why would someone do this anyways? I could understand if someone wants to reserve a few names across 2 or 3 servers that they may eventually play on in the near future but across 20+ servers?

Altaholic is not a valid excuse for this bizarre behavior. I have played what is quite possibly the most alt-friendly MMO in existance, CoH, for 3 years. Even with a leveling speed exceeding that of SWTOR's, I was only able to get 28 characters to the max level during that span. With that in mind, realistically speaking, what are the chances that a player could get through that many characters in his entire MMO career, much less his SWTOR one? Would this game even be around by the time they get around to leveling the characters on his 10th server?

I for one am glad BW made this change. If anything it lowers the probability of someone ragequitting only to tie up 100 or 200 names across dozens of servers after they have unsubbed, never to return. People who have left the game permanently have no logical claim to anything in game when compared to those who stayed. It is either this or BW actively deleting low level characters after a certain amount of dormant period (6 months for example). Pick your poison.
Some people have what's called an imagination. They imagine many different characters with many different backgrounds and abilities. They want to recreate those characters in the game. Whether they play them all to max level or not is not the point. It's being able to create the characters you envision as you envision them and play them in the game world for however much time they want.

Saving names is also very important for some people. Not only does this give them the freedom to move to any given server at any given time because friends often play on altering servers from the ones they chose. It also keeps other players from using their name to misrepresent them on servers that they don't frequent.

I don't see the problem with that. I don't know why so many of you do. And I don't see why BioWare would want to keep people from doing what many people have done in MMOs since they first began.

There is no legitimate reason for imposing such a limitation. Name saves are not taking up more room than the name and the basic starting gear of the character. They don't have to track gear and banks and inventories and story progression on those, so they can't be taking up so much server space that a limit needs to be imposed. The only reason to add this limitation is to force those that save names they may want to stop saving those names. Well, you know what? As with all MMOs with unique character names, the names are first come first serve. If you can't get the name you want, oh well. It's your own fault for not being here first.

I will not delete my saved names. I will therefor not be using this stupid Legacy System for the alt making reasons that it is designed. I guess I'll have to live with not being able to create any more characters on any more servers ever. And I guess I'll have to live with the fact that I can never ever delete a character unless I expect that character to be gone forever, unable to be rerolled for any reason.

I will even go so far as to continue to pay for a sub even long after I have quit playing this game simply to keep anyone from using my name ever.
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Blackavaar
03.26.2012 , 01:11 PM | #37
Quote: Originally Posted by jakarai View Post
I don't know but you might just be.
He's not.
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ferroz
03.26.2012 , 01:14 PM | #38
Quote: Originally Posted by Muanthuun View Post
It is good they limit the char limit to 50.
why?

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You should have not made 130+ characters.
why not?

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Orizuru
03.26.2012 , 01:20 PM | #39
Quote: Originally Posted by ferroz View Post
why?

why not?
Data storage is not an infinite resource.

When one player creates 150 characters it doesn't require a large amount of storage, but if you allow a million players to do this the needed storage becomes astronomical in size and cost.

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Blackavaar
03.26.2012 , 01:27 PM | #40
Quote: Originally Posted by LizardSF View Post
It's pretty much impossible for me to imagine anyone being stupid enough to create 80 characters just to lock in a name, and it's somewhere beyond impossible to imagine they'd then go and whine that they couldn't create an 81st. So, I'm calling shenanigans on this. Get the fire and acid, boys, it's the only thing that can keep a troll from regenerating.

(Oh, PLEASE, do go ahead and cancel your account. If you're telling the truth, you're dragging down the collective IQ of the game every time you log on. If you're lying, well, we hardly need any more trolls. And Bioware hardly needs customers who consume more resources than a dozen other players but pay the same amount per month, so they'll be happy to lose your subscription -- you cost them more than you pay. Good bye, and good riddance.)
I can't see why anyone would be stupid enough not to save a name that identifies them personally on every server.

What if I were to make a character with the same name as yours (assuming it is a specific identifying name and not some faux name copied from the movies) on another server and then went around being a ninja and griefing people in PvP to the point where they started blaring on the forums about how this guy is a total ninja and to never play with him no matter what server he appears on? That's your name and you use it on a server and now people hate your guts because someone else was using your name on another server.

Can you see how name saving can be considered necessary by some of us? Can you allow us to continue to be paranoid about that kind of identity theft?
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