How many toons is it possible for us to get?

[NightbirdX]

I recently finished the 1750 favor on my 3rd toon. I was hoping to get another slot for a 32 point character, which should have taken me to 8 total characters. This is what many of my friends have told me I should be at, and is what they are at. I only have 7 total toons, and don't have the ability to create another? What gives?

Why would you limit the amount of toons a person is able to have anyways? Why would you want to limit the amount that a person is able to play anyways. It was much better when you were able to do the favor, get the tome, and an extra slot, since that oon was pretty much done with what he could do.

Thanks for the insight.

[Osharan_Tregarth]

Sorry Nightbird.. You're out of luck.

There used to be a game bug that would allow anyone who hit 1750 favor to unlock another character, with every single character that hit 1750 favor. It was not an intentional event.

They put a "fix" into the game, that stopped this from happening.

The "fix", however, granted EVERYONE who had already unlocked 1750 favor another character slot.

That's why your friends have 8 slots, and you only have 7 slots... Because you started with 5 available, unlocked a sixth with the drow, and unlocked a seventh with the 1750. If you would have had the 1750 before whatever module "fixed" the bug, then you would have had eight slots available. Also not an intentional event on their part.


The good news is, that when module five hits, you'll have a couple more character slots to play with. And your friends will only have one more slot to play with.

Umm.. There was a discussion about how many character slots a little while back...

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=119135

And Glin weighed in on a different thread about the reasons for character limitations, and why ours are different from europe's...

DDO-EU has two shards, compared to the five DDO shards; the total number of characters per account is the determining factor, not the number of characters per world.
...they also get three languages and we only get one -- but I am pretty sure that wasn't the point.

[blakbyrd]

Officially the limit right now is 7, but yes some have 8.

I have 8 slots for some reason, although I have only ever had one character at 1750 favor (and still have that character), so I have no clue how I got the 8th slot.

I also have 2 accounts, but that should have nothing to do with it :P

Now, potentially with the merge the max amount of characters on one account could be as high as 24, if you had 1750 favor on 3 servers that merged into 1 and had all 8 characters on each of those servers (assuming you managed ot have 8 on each otherwise it would be 21). However you could not create any more until you dropped the 24 back down to 7 or 6 (depending in what you actual max is).

[Cowdenicus]

but it is going up to 9 in Mod 5. shhhhhhhhhhh

[Osharan_Tregarth]

/snip
I have 8 slots for some reason, although I have only ever had one character at 1750 favor (and still have that character), so I have no clue how I got the 8th slot.


/snip

The "fix", however, granted EVERYONE who had already unlocked 1750 favor another character slot.

In case you were curious...

[blakbyrd]

In case you were curious...

Ahh ok, I was unaware of that, and am glad to finally know how it happened.

The only real statement I ever read about it, came across as though, the extra slot(s) was a mistake and has been corrected to no longer happen, however anyone who ended up with an extra slot(s) are going to be able to keep them, and others who did not will remain with the originally intended amount.

Although purely a guess I suppose in my assumption, the Turbine response to the situation, ended with some line that was like "for those of you who got them, enjoy your extra slot", which too me sounded like, not everyone got them.

At any rate, its nice to finally know what, thanks for the heads up.

[NightbirdX]

I just want to know why they limit the amount we can play? I fully plan on maxing out my character slots with jobs that are all at level 14 and have favor. I have too many new idears that go through my head and have to try them out, and on that same note, I want to have enough toons at level 14 that I can fill any role in any group. I have a Clr, 2 ftrs, a tank, a wiz, a rog and a mule. 3 of them are finished. I could burn my mule for a space to make my Barbarian, but then I have absolutely no where to put all my stuff. Not enough bank or inventory slots for me. Just doesn't make sense to make it more difficult for me to play.

[Osharan_Tregarth]

I just want to know why they limit the amount we can play? I fully plan on maxing out my character slots with jobs that are all at level 14 and have favor. I have too many new idears that go through my head and have to try them out, and on that same note, I want to have enough toons at level 14 that I can fill any role in any group. I have a Clr, 2 ftrs, a tank, a wiz, a rog and a mule. 3 of them are finished. I could burn my mule for a space to make my Barbarian, but then I have absolutely no where to put all my stuff. Not enough bank or inventory slots for me. Just doesn't make sense to make it more difficult for me to play.

Well, I can only rephrase what Glin said....

They are basing the numbers on the total number of possible characters, not just the total characters on one server.

So although you may not want to, you could conceivably start up another 7 characters on a different server, and another 7 on another one, and so on.

I don't play on two servers myself, just because it would really bug me if I pulled the "perfect uber elite weapon of everything slaying" that my character is jonesing for... And I pulled it on the wrong server.

[lobode]

They really should increase the amount of characters per server sence the server mergers, there is alot of people that exploited the system so they have more than the intended 7-8. And its not like they played on multiple servers most of them ran 1 toon to 400 favor to get drow unlocked then they used up all their character slots for that server and moved on to the next.

I'm normally not a hater but the difference between 7 toons and 20 is huge. We all pay the same amount to play and the amount of characters we get is one thing that should be equal amongst all players. I think it would be wrong to remove all the exess characters as I am sure there is many who have legit characters accross multiple servers.

[NightbirdX]

I understand that I can go to the other servers and make other toons. I have tried this... But, the problem that I have found is that I do not like starting over from scratch. zero, zip, zilch, nada... Very unfun.

Not only do I have nothing, but I don't have my 32 point builds anymore. So essentially I am going to play one toon to get to 1750 favor again, and then burn him because he is a 28 point build and have to restart again as a 32 point build. I have already done this. I have 3 toons at 1750+ favor. I hate the favor chase as it is, but if I went to a new server fulltime, I would have to get 1750 favor on 2 more toons, which as we all know can be a pain.

And the reason that I came to DDO, is that I have some RL friends that play, and along the way I have met a lot of great chaps, and really don't want to go somewhere else and have to meet all new people and learn the uniquities of the new server and such, plus all my friends aren't really inclined to go to a new server, we were before the merge, but the merge has fixed our grouping issues. Now, we really don't need to. The only thing that would be nice about it is having more toons to play. But the need to have new toons, does not YET out weigh the hate and discontent of making 2 more toons, and getting them to 1750, then burning one, just because I am an elitist prig and those 4 points really matter to me...

[nbhs275]

One account:

5 characters, +1 from 400 favor, +1 from 1750 Right? But the broken way you could get dozens.

But, if you got your 7 slots on 3 servers that merged, you would have 21.

Now. they are giving an extra 2 supposedly, for 9 on a normal account.

Of course, you can always buy extra accounts. I know a guy with like ten mains and 8-14 alts.

[Ithrani]

Has 7 characters from his original server, and 6 on the 2 others that merged, plus 6 on every other server that merged. He said he has something like 70 builds to play with.