8 Characters Slots

Lord_Eomer · February 2016

Hi,

Anyone knows if Zenimax will increase characters slots to more than 8?

I am planning to create new Characters and do not want to delete any existing..

I on am NA server and do not want to use EU.

mistermutiny89 · February 2016

It's been talked about for sure. I hear it MAY be a crown store option come Dark Brotherhood dlc...

Do not change servers as crown purchases and bank space will not carry over.

TheShadowScout · February 2016

It WILL come. Current ETA is around DB DLC time, so somewhen in Q2. Might be delays, but I can't really see them wanting to miss out on the extra profits they'd gain from this... so it will come, sooner or later.

MornaBaine · February 2016

TheShadowScout wrote: »

It WILL come. Current ETA is around DB DLC time, so somewhen in Q2. Might be delays, but I can't really see them wanting to miss out on the extra profits they'd gain from this... so it will come, sooner or later.

Not soon enough for us altoholics! Dammit Zeni! *cracks whip*

adriant1978 · February 2016

I wish I'd known this was coming before I bought a second account.

Elsonso · February 2016

adriant1978 wrote: »

I wish I'd known this was coming before I bought a second account.

The second account will be cheaper, per character slot, than what I expect them to charge in the Crown Store. You don't get the bank space, and contents, no CP, and if you are into ESO Plus you have to decide whether you want to do that on both accounts, but you do get 8 more slots at whatever price you can pick up the game.

Teulisch · February 2016

dont forget- champion points are account wide. as such, the slot limit may be an attempt to cap our ability to max out on champion points.

Thornen · February 2016

I'm amazed they didn't add more slots when they went B2P. I know people that have 42 character slots in gw2 that they bought with rl money so it makes me wonder how a moneymaker like this still hasn't been implemented.

Volkodav · February 2016

MornaBaine wrote: »

TheShadowScout wrote: »

It WILL come. Current ETA is around DB DLC time, so somewhen in Q2. Might be delays, but I can't really see them wanting to miss out on the extra profits they'd gain from this... so it will come, sooner or later.

Not soon enough for us altoholics! Dammit Zeni! *cracks whip*

Hear Ye,hear ye!! WE NEED MORE SLOTS!
Altoholics rule!!

Volkodav · February 2016

Teulisch wrote: »

dont forget- champion points are account wide. as such, the slot limit may be an attempt to cap our ability to max out on champion points.

Huh? How are champ points account wide? I dont have but a few champ points on my new char who is but level 12.My Vet has waaay more than the newbie does.Account wide would mean that each new one you make has the same champ points as you vet does.Nope.

Thornen · February 2016

Volkodav wrote: »

Teulisch wrote: »

dont forget- champion points are account wide. as such, the slot limit may be an attempt to cap our ability to max out on champion points.

Huh? How are champ points account wide? I dont have but a few champ points on my new char who is but level 12.My Vet has waaay more than the newbie does.Account wide would mean that each new one you make has the same champ points as you vet does.Nope.

Lol CP is account wide once you hit 50 every character will have the same amount of cp new or old. Open up the champ tree and use those unspent points..

Volkodav · February 2016

Thornen wrote: »

Volkodav wrote: »

Teulisch wrote: »

dont forget- champion points are account wide. as such, the slot limit may be an attempt to cap our ability to max out on champion points.

Huh? How are champ points account wide? I dont have but a few champ points on my new char who is but level 12.My Vet has waaay more than the newbie does.Account wide would mean that each new one you make has the same champ points as you vet does.Nope.

Lol CP is account wide once you hit 50 every character will have the same amount of cp new or old. Open up the champ tree and use those unspent points..

I have three vets,and I have opened up my CP trees on each of my chars,new and old.None are the same.I am getting some type of glitch then..I have had one point here,one point there,etc on my newbies.

Thornen · February 2016

You should have the same amount of cp on each character, where you place the points on each is seperate.

If this isn't the case I would contact support.

Volkodav · February 2016

Thornen wrote: »

You should have the same amount of cp on each character, where you place the points on each is seperate.

If this isn't the case I would contact support.

I am familiar with how to use my CP points,but as I said,they arent going account wide for me. I guess I'll be contacting support then. I have never given it any thought until now.I've been playing since the very first and never noticed anything was off when they introduced the CPs.

notimetocare · February 2016

As someone with 1 of everything(magic and stam for all 4), not all v16 yet, what need is there for extra slots outside of RPers?

BlueBin · February 2016

Mate I barely have time to get three characters to reasonable levels haha

Khenarthi · February 2016

TheShadowScout wrote: »

It WILL come. Current ETA is around DB DLC time, so somewhen in Q2. Might be delays, but I can't really see them wanting to miss out on the extra profits they'd gain from this... so it will come, sooner or later.

Hi @TheShadowScout can you link here where you saw this announced?

I never saw Zeni confirm it will be introduced...

Thanks

Skayaq · February 2016

They talked about it in one of the recent ESO Live, I think it was the one just before Christmas.

starkerealm · February 2016

Teulisch wrote: »

dont forget- champion points are account wide. as such, the slot limit may be an attempt to cap our ability to max out on champion points.

Originally it was, probably, an attempt to keep us from rolling up a bunch of crafting mules and collecting crafting boxes on all of them. Remember, originally, the materials scaled to the character opening the container they arrived in. So you could get characters to the point where they had hirelings, then pass those cases to a character with 3/3 hireling, and open them there for the full drop list.

It may have been also intended to keep us from using extra alts as spare bank space. With the Crafting Materials going into a dedicated bag from DB on out, there's not much reason to block us on that front, anymore.

Thornen · February 2016

starkerealm wrote: »

Teulisch wrote: »

dont forget- champion points are account wide. as such, the slot limit may be an attempt to cap our ability to max out on champion points.

Originally it was, probably, an attempt to keep us from rolling up a bunch of crafting mules and collecting crafting boxes on all of them. Remember, originally, the materials scaled to the character opening the container they arrived in. So you could get characters to the point where they had hirelings, then pass those cases to a character with 3/3 hireling, and open them there for the full drop list.

It may have been also intended to keep us from using extra alts as spare bank space. With the Crafting Materials going into a dedicated bag from DB on out, there's not much reason to block us on that front, anymore.

Actually they mentioned the reason for only 8 slots awhile back being they never designed it into the game in the first place, or in Zos's words technical issues with the server.

starkerealm · February 2016

Thornen wrote: »

Actually they mentioned the reason for only 8 slots awhile back being they never designed it into the game in the first place, or in Zos's words technical issues with the server.

That still baffles me. Given how common extra character slots are as an optional addon.

AlnilamE · February 2016

Volkodav wrote: »

Thornen wrote: »

You should have the same amount of cp on each character, where you place the points on each is seperate.

If this isn't the case I would contact support.

I am familiar with how to use my CP points,but as I said,they arent going account wide for me. I guess I'll be contacting support then. I have never given it any thought until now.I've been playing since the very first and never noticed anything was off when they introduced the CPs.

Yeah, you definitely want to submit a ticket. All my characters have access to all my Champion Points. That's how it's supposed to work.

MornaBaine · February 2016

starkerealm wrote: »

Thornen wrote: »

Actually they mentioned the reason for only 8 slots awhile back being they never designed it into the game in the first place, or in Zos's words technical issues with the server.

That still baffles me. Given how common extra character slots are as an optional addon.

These are the same people who didn't make it possible to sit on any of the furniture because (and yes, they really said this) they didn't think anyone would ever want to.

Thornen · February 2016

starkerealm wrote: »

Thornen wrote: »

Actually they mentioned the reason for only 8 slots awhile back being they never designed it into the game in the first place, or in Zos's words technical issues with the server.

That still baffles me. Given how common extra character slots are as an optional addon.

Zenimax really seemed to be afraid of trying to improve on old and tired systems when they developed ESO. Just look at the inventory system and you will understand what I mean. I think mainly it was due to inexperience making multiplayer games and where the industry was actually moving towards at the time it was developed. Hopefully they continue to remedy these mistakes.

starkerealm · February 2016

MornaBaine wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

Thornen wrote: »

Actually they mentioned the reason for only 8 slots awhile back being they never designed it into the game in the first place, or in Zos's words technical issues with the server.

That still baffles me. Given how common extra character slots are as an optional addon.

These are the same people who didn't make it possible to sit on any of the furniture because (and yes, they really said this) they didn't think anyone would ever want to.

That one's significantly more understandable, if you forget that RPers exist.

MornaBaine · February 2016

starkerealm wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

Thornen wrote: »

Actually they mentioned the reason for only 8 slots awhile back being they never designed it into the game in the first place, or in Zos's words technical issues with the server.

That still baffles me. Given how common extra character slots are as an optional addon.

These are the same people who didn't make it possible to sit on any of the furniture because (and yes, they really said this) they didn't think anyone would ever want to.

That one's significantly more understandable, if you forget that RPers exist.

Don't even get me started...

starkerealm · February 2016

Thornen wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

Thornen wrote: »

Actually they mentioned the reason for only 8 slots awhile back being they never designed it into the game in the first place, or in Zos's words technical issues with the server.

That still baffles me. Given how common extra character slots are as an optional addon.

Zenimax really seemed to be afraid of trying to improve on old and tired systems when they developed ESO. Just look at the inventory system and you will understand what I mean. I think mainly it was due to inexperience making multiplayer games and where the industry was actually moving towards at the time it was developed. Hopefully they continue to remedy these mistakes.

To be fair, most of the dev team at ZoS were MMO vets from way back. It's not so much they didn't understand multiplayer, it's they were specifically designing an MMO the way you would have in 1999, and then splicing that into a modern theme park PvE structure. Which, I suppose answers the character slot issue pretty succinctly, when I put it together like that.

starkerealm · February 2016

MornaBaine wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

MornaBaine wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

Thornen wrote: »

Actually they mentioned the reason for only 8 slots awhile back being they never designed it into the game in the first place, or in Zos's words technical issues with the server.

That still baffles me. Given how common extra character slots are as an optional addon.

These are the same people who didn't make it possible to sit on any of the furniture because (and yes, they really said this) they didn't think anyone would ever want to.

That one's significantly more understandable, if you forget that RPers exist.

Don't even get me started...

Yeah, no, I know.

TheShadowScout · February 2016

Khenarthi wrote: »

can you link here where you saw this announced?
I never saw Zeni confirm it will be introduced...
Thanks

Can't find it right now, but I distinctively remember reading a big outcry of joy about it somewhen in mid january or so... a mention of more character slots becoming available for purchase in the future, maybe somewhere around Q2 in ESO live 01/15 seems the most likely culprit?

Of course, as with anything ZOS says, it has to be taken as declaration of intent, and may suffer delays and reconsiderations... but hey, after a looong time, at least we got a "working on it, will come eventually" now after many months of "technical difficulties...".