Since Mod 9 is waaay late can we get more character slots in the mean time

[darkrune]

Since most of the original players that have been here since beta and/or not long after have more toons than the current cap allows, can you all please give each server like 5 extra slots so that we can actually roll up new characters so that we can have something to do until the mod drops?

I am seriously on the verge of leaving (if my last post didnt indicate) and feel that many others are as well. I am not saying that more character slots is the answer but since mod "9" = mod "9 months late" some of us are running out of things to do. A few extra slot shouldnt be that difficult to code in a day or two.

I am not asking for anything uber here just a little bone to help get us through this aweful wait that you are making us go through.

Dark

ps i am still here... buy a U...

[Ranmaru2]

The problem with more character slots is that they used to offer that to anyone who worked to get 1750, but as soon as they made the accounts universal in slot numbers, there were people losing almost 5-7 slots per server per account. I know one person who got REALLY ticked off when he lost slots (after having 6 toons with 1750 prior to the 10 change), and when you're told that there's nothing they can do by a GM when you worked for what used to be the reward, you feel disheartened for working for that achievement. IF anything, some people are honestly owed character slots, but I don't think that new character slots can help this absolute drought by the Turbine executives wherein you can tell they want this game to just die (not the DDO team, the actual execs)

[Kylstrem]

The problem with more character slots is that they used to offer that to anyone who worked to get 1750, but as soon as they made the accounts universal in slot numbers, there were people losing almost 5-7 slots per server per account. I know one person who got REALLY ticked off when he lost slots (after having 6 toons with 1750 prior to the 10 change), and when you're told that there's nothing they can do by a GM when you worked for what used to be the reward, you feel disheartened for working for that achievement. IF anything, some people are honestly owed character slots, but I don't think that new character slots can help this absolute drought by the Turbine executives wherein you can tell they want this game to just die (not the DDO team, the actual execs)

This doesn't make sense.

The original 1750 favor reward was ONE extra character slot, a +2 tome and the ability to create 32 point characters.

And this was back when the max character slots was 7 or 8.

I think there was a bug where some people got an extra slot when they got a 2nd character to 1750 on the same server, but that was a BUG... and it only granted one extra slot... not one per 1750 toon on the server.

Turbine then merged the servers and some people ended up with many characters on each server, but they still only had the 8 or 9 slots available for new characters.

So after the merge, if you had 15 characters and you deleted one, you couldn't make a new one. You could only make new on if you got below the character limit.

Sometime around Mod 8, Turbine gave us all an extra character slot. This change finally fixed all the bugs (kinda) with some people having more "creatable" character slots than others and gave everyone 10 slots.

No one ever lost characters throughout any of these changes, i.e. Turbine never deleted anyone's characters.

So... to summarize:
1) Character limit right now = 10
2) Current limit is the largest it's ever been
3) Turbine never deleted anyone's characters.
4) No one ever LOST createable character slots that were intended (i.e. not the result of a bug).

[Issip]

I kinda agree with the OP here. I'm over on my toon slots but would love to make a monk - or maybe one of those ranger/rogue/monk super-toons. It would keep me busy for a while.

I could play on other servers, but don't really want to as all my friends are on Ghallanda and I play more to hang out with them than to play DDO.

Of course Turbine won't do it, but I can't think of a reason why anyone would complain about more toon slots. It seems like an easy pacifier to stick in the mouths of the crying player base - "Here - have antoher toon - now go play DDO and stop whining on the forums!"

Issip

[Fetchi]

This doesn't make sense.

The original 1750 favor reward was ONE extra character slot, a +2 tome and the ability to create 32 point characters.

And this was back when the max character slots was 7 or 8.

I think there was a bug where some people got an extra slot when they got a 2nd character to 1750 on the same server, but that was a BUG... and it only granted one extra slot... not one per 1750 toon on the server.

Turbine then merged the servers and some people ended up with many characters on each server, but they still only had the 8 or 9 slots available for new characters.

So after the merge, if you had 15 characters and you deleted one, you couldn't make a new one. You could only make new on if you got below the character limit.

Sometime around Mod 8, Turbine gave us all an extra character slot. This change finally fixed all the bugs (kinda) with some people having more "creatable" character slots than others and gave everyone 10 slots.

No one ever lost characters throughout any of these changes, i.e. Turbine never deleted anyone's characters.

So... to summarize:
1) Character limit right now = 10
2) Current limit is the largest it's ever been
3) Turbine never deleted anyone's characters.
4) No one ever LOST createable character slots that were intended (i.e. not the result of a bug).

This is correct to the best of my knowledge.

More slots are always good. All my slots are filled as well and I"m getting bored like most vets.

[Kylstrem]

Oh yes, I would like new characters slots as well.

[Anyria]

I would pay for more slots, as it is now I am transferring characters to different servers to open favor there and to open spots on my main server.

I would much rather pay the transfer rate to open an additional slot up. As I understand it, if you transfer a character from another server to a server where you are full, you get 11 on the destination server, so by that logic the code is there to have more than 10 on a server.

Many other games have a one time charge of $5 - $10 to open an additional spot, heck I would pay the $25.00 it costs to transfer for an additional spot, which seems to me to be more labor intensive on Turbines end of things.

just my 2 cps (oh yeah copper is worthless)

[Pyromaniac]

I don't even use the character slots I have now, given how bored I am with rerolling with the same lack of content.

/not signed, let me sell mine to those who want more

[Hellllboy]

This is an excellent suggestion! It would also open up some new opportunities for interaction between new players and the experienced people.

Its also fun to just roll up someone-just for fun-to see what kinda new concept you can develope.

And Yes, I would also pay to gain slots! :D

/signed

[WeaselKing]

4) No one ever LOST createable character slots that were intended (i.e. not the result of a bug).

I am pretty sure that the server merge did indeed do this, the rest is accurate iirc. If you had say 5 of 7 on Argo and 5 of 7 on Mabar before they merged, after the merge you had 10 characters but not the 4 empty slots in which to create characters. However if you are referring only to the case the OP is referring to than you are correct afaik.

[Kylstrem]

I am pretty sure that the server merge did indeed do this, the rest is accurate iirc. If you had say 5 of 7 on Argo and 5 of 7 on Mabar before they merged, after the merge you had 10 characters but not the 4 empty slots in which to create characters. However if you are referring only to the case the OP is referring to than you are correct afaik.

Ahhh... Yes, that could be interpreted as losing createable slots.

[Invalid_50]

They could always just combine all character slots from all servers too. You get 10 slots per server (what are there like 5 servers now?) combine them up to 50 global slots you can create any which way you want. that way they are not really giving us anything, except the ability to use all of our slots to create characters on whatever server we want. (they shouldnt need to purchase more storage for this solution).

Obviously once the character is created and the server is picked, that character is stuck on that server unless the character goes through the server transfer process.

Of course this could lead to over/under population of particular servers I guess.

[Tamryn]

This is correct to the best of my knowledge.

More slots are always good. All my slots are filled as well and I"m getting bored like most vets.

Not Correct, for awhile it was each 1750 allowed another slot, and there was a "problem" where you could at times login and have the "Create" button lit. At one point I had 14 toons on one server, before any merges. And yes, I'll always take more slots! :)

[Fetchi]

Not Correct, for awhile it was each 1750 allowed another slot, and there was a "problem" where you could at times login and have the "Create" button lit. At one point I had 14 toons on one server, before any merges. And yes, I'll always take more slots! :)

Ah yes, now I remember.

[Slink]

I want 6 more slots.

5 is doable but if I ask for six maybe they will agree to 5.

Oops...
Did I just say too much?

[Laith]

ok, not to knock anyone or this idea, but i almost put money on someone asking for a bonus xp/loot weekend first.

After all, isn't it always either 'more character slots' or 'xp/loot weekend' when the DDO community feels slighted? :)

[Noctus]

/signed.

[The10man]

Here's how I see it. /signed to more slots. /not signed to paying for them. There are many people who haven't been to korthos as they were past that with all their characters when it dropped. More slots would allow this w/o having to delete multiple chars to get to nine to have an empty slot. Also it opens more runs on the lfms for everyone win-win there. Renewed interest in the game =renewed subs win for turbine. Charging equals dissatisfaction to downright anger for some.
I suggest basing slots on months subs have been paid rewarding loyal players (read loyal payers). Include breaks to be fair but include all paid months. Using ops forum date as example he requested 5 slots has been member since april 07 which is 26 paid months resulting in one extra slot for every 5 months I say make it easy and give one slot for every 6 paid months. Seems fair to me.

[Uska]

This doesn't make sense.

The original 1750 favor reward was ONE extra character slot, a +2 tome and the ability to create 32 point characters.

And this was back when the max character slots was 7 or 8.

I think there was a bug where some people got an extra slot when they got a 2nd character to 1750 on the same server, but that was a BUG... and it only granted one extra slot... not one per 1750 toon on the server.
Turbine then merged the servers and some people ended up with many characters on each server, but they still only had the 8 or 9 slots available for new characters.

So after the merge, if you had 15 characters and you deleted one, you couldn't make a new one. You could only make new on if you got below the character limit.

Sometime around Mod 8, Turbine gave us all an extra character slot. This change finally fixed all the bugs (kinda) with some people having more "creatable" character slots than others and gave everyone 10 slots.

No one ever lost characters throughout any of these changes, i.e. Turbine never deleted anyone's characters.

So... to summarize:
1) Character limit right now = 10
2) Current limit is the largest it's ever been
3) Turbine never deleted anyone's characters.
4) No one ever LOST createable character slots that were intended (i.e. not the result of a bug).

actually the bug was you got another slot for each character you got to 1750 and no it wasnt intended.

[darkrune]

This is an excellent suggestion! It would also open up some new opportunities for interaction between new players and the experienced people.

Its also fun to just roll up someone-just for fun-to see what kinda new concept you can develope.

And Yes, I would also pay to gain slots! :D

/signed

i am not looking to pay for additional slots if you want to do that just drop the extra 15 a month and get a second account...

But the first 2 sentences are exactly what i am talking about...

Give us "old-timers" a chance to go back and see kothos island and the next material there. Give us a chance to play around with that "wonder what happens if you mix..." build that we always wondered about but didnt have the time or character slots to make.

Now we apparently have nothing but time (at least till the sub's run out) we are just lacking the character slots.

then again this is just my 2cp to a little thing that MIGHT save a few players like myself from running for the hills to the next game cause there is nothing to do but grind...

Dark

[bloodyrag]

im in the same boat been here 3 years all ten toons are capped and 32pointers nothing i want to delete cant afford antoher 15bucks a month for a second account (25bucks a month for us aussies when u consider transfer rate and that my bank charges 5buck international transfer fee each month) a few more toons slots would be very nice. forget the loot weekends they are useless anyhow as random loot is nothing compared to crafted and as for xp bonus what a joke u can cap a toon in well under 2 weeks if u want can do it under a week if u really want. not asking for 5 or 6 thats almost a new account how about 2 is it really to much to ask we are being patient for the new mod well most of us are as this is a great game but with no answers forthcoming a bit of PR by turbine would go a fair way to making its customers a bit happier my 2bits worth anyhow

[Wu_Jen]

This was beaten to death a while back. There is no simple solution. When they did the sever mergers they combined the characters you had on both servers. In effect some people had 16 characters, some 18. They stated that they would not delete characters but you would not be able to create new characters when you deleted an old one if you were over your 8 or 9 limit.

They also stated that they would not add more slots because of the cost associated with more data. Because Turbine does not delete characters or accounts that are inactive they incur the data storage from even trial accounts. Every new person that tries the game costs Turbine money. This is the future are costs for data storage cheaper now? I don't think it is.

[darkrune]

This was beaten to death a while back...This is the future are costs for data storage cheaper now? I don't think it is.

Cheaper than losing mine and others $15 a month due to boredom...