Character Slots for Monks?

[Starspawn]

I haven't seen anything anywhere yet so I'm wondering if we can get a definitive answer. Will we be getting an extra character slot for monks? We got an extra slot when drow were introduced and we got extra slots when we hit 1750 favor. I currently have 9 character slots on my main server (with my 1750 favor character). Coincidentally, there are 9 different character classes so during the almost 2 years since we got drow, I reserved one slot for each character class and at least one of each character race and have leveled up a character of each class. I don't have any room to try monks and I don't particularly want to delete a character to create a monk. I like to run a character of every different class and race just to experience the content of DDO from different racial and class perspectives.

Please please please make sure that we get another slot for monks so I can have fun leveling up a monk to add to my stable of characters.

Can I get a confirmation that we will?

If not, can someone explain why we're not going to get one?

[Dracolich]

I dont have an answer but will chime in on my thoughts.

I hope they add an additional character slot...to those that are not already above their current max.(IE those that did not take advantage of the server merge by making toons on all servers) Those people already have their extra ones. If they do not add an aditional slot I myself wont be too effected but I can see were others will be.

[narizue]

I think that an additional character slot is pretty much essential from a PR standpoint. I know that I did not open up extra slots via the merger or that other method that shall not be named, but I have a full set of characters. I want to play a monk but would either have to delete an existing character or start playing on a new server. Neither is a particularly appealing option. Some comment one way or the other from our wonderful community relations team would certainly be appreciated. I don't know, or even no is better than silence.

[Memnir]

If the answer is No to the question of getting more character slots, I know a lot of folks who will leave. I'm not saying that as any sort of threat, since I'm not one of them - just stating what I've been told by many friends and acquaintances in the past few weeks. I know a lot of people.

With a brand new MMO fresh out of the gates, this would be a really bad time to give people an excuse to go and check it out.

[Dark_Helmet]

I haven't seen anything anywhere yet so I'm wondering if we can get a definitive answer. Will we be getting an extra character slot for monks? We got an extra slot when drow were introduced and we got extra slots when we hit 1750 favor. I currently have 9 character slots on my main server (with my 1750 favor character). Coincidentally, there are 9 different character classes so during the almost 2 years since we got drow, I reserved one slot for each character class and at least one of each character race and have leveled up a character of each class. I don't have any room to try monks and I don't particularly want to delete a character to create a monk. I like to run a character of every different class and race just to experience the content of DDO from different racial and class perspectives.

Please please please make sure that we get another slot for monks so I can have fun leveling up a monk to add to my stable of characters.

Can I get a confirmation that we will?

If not, can someone explain why we're not going to get one?

Not to mention no slots to handle multi-classed characters or different races...
Before the server consolidation, they advertised that we would have plenty of slots since we could just create characters on other servers... then they consolidated the servers which made me go over the slot count and I didn't want to delete any of them.

Or maybe waive the $25 cost to transfer a character (or 3 ) to another server to make room...

[Omega2K]

I remember a day where there were Warforged all over the place (back in Alpha)...

I remember a day where there were Drow all over the place...

Will there be a day with Monks all over the place? Yes, most assuredly... But who will heal these Monks? Perhaps they should give everyone one more Character Slot to make a Cleric or a Bard... And after they level that toon up to say level 8, a Monk slot will open up... Hrmmm...

On a serious note though, I have a lot of Characters (about half of them due to Server Merges) and I am rather attached to them... I am definitely not going to delete 10 or more Characters to open just one Monk Slot... They can forget that... If Turbine wants me to play a Monk (and give myself some new entertainment value for DDO) then they will need to give me another Character Slot... It's just that simple.

[Slapphappy]

Hey it is me again on my character slot soap box. I agree that if giving us an extra slot for monks is not a necessity for Turbine, then it is certainly a very good idea. It is a little thing, but if they don't do it, they will frustrate a LOT of people. Personally, I would like 5 more slots when mod 7 comes out. How about it dev's?

[Samadhi]

Hey it is me again on my character slot soap box. I agree that if giving us an extra slot for monks is not a necessity for Turbine, then it is certainly a very good idea. It is a little thing, but if they don't do it, they will frustrate a LOT of people. Personally, I would like 5 more slots when mod 7 comes out. How about it dev's?

agreed

[Jaywade]

I'm hoping for 2 just one I don't think would be enough (I my self have 9 lvl 16 and I'm deleteing) I would like to try a monk and a bard again ....can't really see a reason not to increase to at least 1...but 2 would be better

[Grimtooth333]

Hey it is me again on my character slot soap box. I agree that if giving us an extra slot for monks is not a necessity for Turbine, then it is certainly a very good idea. It is a little thing, but if they don't do it, they will frustrate a LOT of people. Personally, I would like 5 more slots when mod 7 comes out. How about it dev's?

Heck yeah... 5 would be nice. More would be better especially with all the different character builds you can make.

[United]

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=147320

That will give you the answer you need. But it is NO. there will not be an additional character slot.

[Inspire]

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=147320

That will give you the answer you need. But it is NO. there will not be an additional character slot.

Risia Is A Test Server, Things May Change When Mod7 Goes Live.

[Elaril]

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=147320

That will give you the answer you need. But it is NO. there will not be an additional character slot.

I'm not 100% sure that information from Risia is a definitive source for a production server. I'm adopting a wait and see (or wait until I get officail word from a dev) attitude on this one.

[Elaril]

(rolleyes)
Risia Is A Test Server, Things May Change When Mod7 Goes Live.

*grumble* beat me to it.

[Kylstrem]

I don't understand why this is not a SLAM DUNK for Turbine to just announce already.

Turbine's strategy should be to make the people paying them $10-$15/month happy... to keep people paying, people need to have a reason to keep playing.

One thing that keeps people in the game is creating and playing alts... once they create an alt they will spend more time wanting to play that alt and keep paying that monthly fee.

I cannot imagine there is a substantial cost to Turbine for hard drive space to store 1-2 extra characters for every subscriber, but there is substantial cost to them for people getting bored and cancelling their accounts.

Now, maybe to avoid having the LFM screen filled with parties of 5 Level 1-Level 3 monks all looking for a cleric, they may tie the extra slots to some favor total.

That does two positive things:
1) Keeps people playing (carrot in front of them) before they can get the monk.
2) Avoids everyone creating a monk right away and having the LFM situation above.

But it also has a negative:
1) Anger people who just want something really new after over 2 years in the game (of course, those people probably would meet whatever favor requirement Turbine put in).

If I were Turbine, I would give everyone at least one new character slot, and perhaps 2.

[JacknCoke]

If the answer is No to the question of getting more character slots, I know a lot of folks who will leave

LMAO!!! I just spit coffee all over my desk. That's a good one...

[feynman]

Actually, I think they should let us have as many characters as we want, but only allow us to have 2 characters under level 3 at any time. This would keep everyone happy, but prevent people from intentionally filling up the server with level 1 toons (and they'd do it, too). If that becomes a problem, then start archiving characters who haven't been played in, say, a month.

I would also like to address the issues surrounding the monk:

Dear Turbine,

W_T_F?!?!?!?!

I mean, come on, monks?! When the clear weak point of the entire game is the reliance on a single healing class? Druids should have had priority over monks, and I personally would have gone for Favored Souls, mainly to give the clerics a break. Now, I'll grant you that monks are essential to the game, because, um, well, there were all those great books about a... no, he was a wizard... or that movie with... no, they were rogues...or in the TV show...whoops, no monks there...or that legendary monk, um, what's-his-name...or Khelgar in Neverwinter Nights 2, but no, wait, sorry, he sucked if you made him a monk...BRUCE LEE! Yea, that's the ticket! Monks are essential to D&D because Bruce Lee...oh yea, he's dead.

[HighJoe]

Regarding character slots. The folks playing the European servers have 12 slots (read the news announcement from August 27, 2007 here) for character creation. In the past, the reasoning was they had fewer servers to play on. Well, since the server merger, we here in the US/Australia have fewer servers to play on as well. I never really understood the logic of fewer servers/more slots, more servers/less slots.

If (I don't currently, and doubt I would in the future) I have characters on a different server, those characters have no bearing on the characters located on another server. I can't exchange items (unless I pay to have a character moved, but if I've maxed that servers slots, that can't happen either), I can't party with the same people (unless all those in my guild/friends list created characters on that other server as well), I can't acheive 1750 favor on one server and build 32 point characters on every server after that. I'm sure you see where I'm going.

Turbine, If you're going to give one customer base more character slots (or anything else for that matter), it is only prudent to do so across the board. You may think that we have all forgotten the disconnect between what's available in Europe and what's available here but, trust me, many of us have not. With the release of a new character class, bringing Europe and US/Australian account configurations in to a more uniform standard would be an obvious move, I would think.

I'm not going to tell you to do this. I'm not even going to ask, as I have seen over the past 2+ years of play and forum reading, that what your player base most loudly calls for, usually turns out to be the least heard by your management. I'm simply putting this information back out there so the masses that still hold out hope can once again refresh their fervor. You may call it trolling; I call it tired of the fight and passing the torch to the younger, less jaded amongst us.

Enjoy!

[Riggs]

There was a dev post last year sometime about the effect of "When we add new races and classes we will add new characters slots too".

I dont remember who, or exactly when, but I remember reading it very clearly because at the time there was only 5-7 slots and it was, and is, a big deal. Just because something was stated by someone working for Turbine at least a year ago doesnt make it gospel for what is happening now, but it is still a huge deal, and needs to be addressed in something less than another years timeframe from now.

After 2 years of no new classes, it is far too much to expect that a person will not have filled their slots with characters, ones that maybe they dont want to delete. Saying "Sorry you have to delete a character you have been playing for a year or more because we dont have the hard drive space to give everyone 1 extra slot for monks...." wow that would be a real PR achievment.

[GovtMule]

Regarding the extra slots created at the merge...

I thought slots 10+ were "volatile" slots. That is to say, you can have a playable character in that slot but as soon as you delete it, the slot disappears.

If this isn't the case, man, will I feel like a putz for not creating a whack of them