Maximum Characters?

[ArchangelXZ]

hi im new here, just found out bout this game from xbox forums but a question ive been wondering is how many charecters are you allowed will it be a 3 maximum like EVE or a 12 maximum like wow as id probably like to have one of each clas as this game just looks awesome and i have tried the search button but found nothing

[Grind]

A while ago Webzen said you can only have 1 character per server which would make you have your different characters on different servers.

Things certainly may have changed since then but I haven't heard any new information about it.

[Glitchhawk]

i hope its more then 1 per server... what if u play on one guy with ur RL buddy. but you want to play on the same servers on a Different char... but with ur same in game friends? i hope theres just a limit of like a max of 7 chars threwout all the servers. that would be nice

[Su-do]

Originally Posted by Glitchhawk

i hope its more then 1 per server... what if u play on one guy with ur RL buddy. but you want to play on the same servers on a Different char... but with ur same in game friends? i hope theres just a limit of like a max of 7 chars threwout all the servers. that would be nice

That sorta defeats the general intent of the game. They are trying to build an Persistant mmo/fps with consequences to your actions or inaction. Ie. Lets say town X has great weapons, gambling dancing etc etc for you to do outside of fighting.... if you're on a side that doesn't own that you'll fight all the harder to try and recapture that area vs just switching to a character whos side owns that town currently.

Not to mention that if you are locked in with one character your name is also unique and if you start getting a good rep or a bad rep...that server will know about it and either gun for you or want to join you.

No more logging on an alt to scam or harass people etc, you're responsible for your own actions!

[Grind]

Originally Posted by Su-do

Lets say town X has great weapons, gambling dancing etc etc for you to do outside of fighting.... if you're on a side that doesn't own that you'll fight all the harder to try and recapture that area vs just switching to a character whos side owns that town currently.

Even if we could only have one character per server you could still delete your character and join the winning side. There are plenty of people out there who like playing the underdog and may even wait to see which team is winning before they make a serious character and then join the losing side to help out.


If you want to play a different character with your friends you can always get together and have everyone join a new server and start over together, but that can get annoying when some people want to play their main characters and others want to level up their new ones.

I usually stick to one character, but honestly I would like to be able to try out different classes with my friends. However if they were going to have multiple characters i'd limit it to 3 since there are only 3 classes.

I do like the idea of building up your reputation, and being unable to create a level 1 character just to spam everyone, but I don't know if Huxley is trying to be that "hardcore". If so I'm all up for it, I'll just play different characters until I find the one I like the most and then put that one on the server with all my friends.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Grind

Even if we could only have one character per server you could still delete your character and join the winning side. There are plenty of people out there who like playing the underdog and may even wait to see which team is winning before they make a serious character and then join the losing side to help out.

Being a grunt/infantry in Planetside for the Vanu Sovreignty for the last few years has proven this to be true. I waited around to see which side was going to be heavily undermanned. Turned out to be the Vanu, so I went with them. Undermanned, underpowered weaponry, underpowered vehicles, and still kickin' arse on Markov. The problem we always had though, is if Vanu started losing, people that hate losing would log off the Vanu, and get on their Terran Republic or New Conglomerate toons and just help blast us into the dust. I'm pro-faction restrictions, but I don't think having a 1 character limitation is the answer. Just restrict that specific server to the initial faction chosen, as Dark Age of Camelot did.

[Grind]

Originally Posted by Reaper

Being a grunt/infantry in Planetside for the Vanu Sovreignty for the last few years has proven this to be true. I waited around to see which side was going to be heavily undermanned. Turned out to be the Vanu, so I went with them. Undermanned, underpowered weaponry, underpowered vehicles, and still kickin' arse on Markov. The problem we always had though, is if Vanu started losing, people that hate losing would log off the Vanu, and get on their Terran Republic or New Conglomerate toons and just help blast us into the dust. I'm pro-faction restrictions, but I don't think having a 1 character limitation is the answer. Just restrict that specific server to the initial faction chosen, as Dark Age of Camelot did.

Yeah I would hope (and assume) that they would do at least that.

It seems completely dumb to let people just switch sides whenever they were losing. Almost every game I can think of (especially FPS) have something for team balancing etc.

[Reaper]

Yeah, very true. And with as much thought and precautions as there are being pumped into this game, I'm going to assume they've got something good to solve the problem. Even if it is only one character per server max-capping.