No New Character Slots Added in Greymoor

xhaven

Why!!!
Im already at 18/18 waiting for the chapter to drop so I can start a new character.
Is it to force us to try and buy the game twice?
Of the current mmos, why is ESO so bad at having character slots!

BRCOURTN

I guess they think 3 per class is enough

Raisin

Their reasoning for adding character slots in previous chapters was usually because they added a new class.

Don't know about Summerset.

SolidusPrime

xhaven wrote: »

Why!!!
Im already at 18/18 waiting for the chapter to drop so I can start a new character.
Is it to force us to try and buy the game twice?
Of the current mmos, why is ESO so bad at having character slots!

That's a very unreasonable assumption. 18 characters per server is a lot.

Just curious - What number would you be satisfied with?

karthrag_inak

This one would be satisfied with 24. One per role per profession.

Gythral

karthrag_inak wrote: »

This one would be satisfied with 24. One per role per profession.

30 - 1 per role per class & 1 per role per affliction, seems like a logical number to me, but even 1 slot for Vampire and 1 for Werewolf on top of the 3 per calss would be nice
but never gonna happen (server storage costs too much for ZOS' pockets)

Epona222

They didn't say there would be a new character slot, there was no new character slot on the PTS, I am unsure why you were expecting a new character slot. They usually advertise it as a feature if there is going to be one. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news

Katheriah

What in Oblivion do you need a dozillion chars for?

Tigerseye

xhaven wrote: »

Of the current mmos, why is ESO so bad at having character slots!

...and bag and bank expansions.

No idea, but it's not good.

Tigerseye

Katheriah wrote: »

What in Oblivion do you need a dozillion chars for?

According to the general consensus, you need most of them for storage.

Taleof2Cities

18 is more than fair, @xhaven.

If you need more get a second account ...

Daemons_Bane

6 classes.. Stam, Magicka, Hybrid.. How can you need more than 18 characters..

Sirona_Starr

10 races, 6 classes.
60 slots for 6 classes per race sounds good. I'm NOT saying I'd use 60 slots, but it could be the top end of available slots.

I'm not counting hybrids either lol.

Not everyone uses all their character slots, so for those of us maxed at 18, the unused slots by players (which they could hypothetically max out slots and choose not to), could at least be considered part of the potential server load as if everyone maxed their slots. In other words, there is room for more character slots to be made available for those that would be willing to buy them.

Just saying.

TheShadowScout

Personally I am not so keen on making more characters... tho I -would- have liked to see the greymoor tutorial.

Oh, well, maybe someday they will add a "Cadwells" for tutorials... they could give out a skill point for each of those, and finally silence the "but... those characters that played expansion tutorials AND the coldharbour tutorial got an extra!" cries of the older players...

xhaven

SolidusPrime wrote: »

xhaven wrote: »

Why!!!
Im already at 18/18 waiting for the chapter to drop so I can start a new character.
Is it to force us to try and buy the game twice?
Of the current mmos, why is ESO so bad at having character slots!

That's a very unreasonable assumption. 18 characters per server is a lot.

Just curious - What number would you be satisfied with?

I have played several mmos, I came from wow to eso, in wow the limit is 50 characters per realm. I played swotor where it was at the time 54 per server, I have played GW 2, where the character limit is 71. In addition in swotor and gw2 you have to pay for some character slots just like in eso. So no to me having more than 18 is not unreasonable at all.

EmEm_Oh

xhaven wrote: »

Why!!!
Im already at 18/18 waiting for the chapter to drop so I can start a new character.
Is it to force us to try and buy the game twice?
Of the current mmos, why is ESO so bad at having character slots!

That's a lot of characters. You need to ask ZOS for your own zip code.

gabriebe

I'd be happy with 24. One stam, mag + healer and tank.

omegatay_ESO

18?? Never even noticed. What do you do with 18 characters; how does anyone have the time to play/manage 18 chars? Not to mention ALL the other games out there. Jesus, I am either not getting it, (obviously) or people need to leave there dungeons, parents basements and get a RL...

kadochka

Want/need more characters slots... PLEASE.

YandereGirlfriend

Adding new character slots seems eminently reasonable after they implement the Cold Storage feature noted in their performance road map.

As it is now, we have characters from players who quit the game long ago hogging database resources alongside characters that are played every day. Those are characters that need to be stored, managed, and queried against constantly, which is wasting server storage and computational cycles.

Moving them to their own servers and out of everyday use would free up a lot of headroom for the more consistently active players to use for new slots.

xhaven

BRCOURTN wrote: »

I guess they think 3 per class is enough

Then zos needs to rethink that stance.
In ESO there are many different builds you can have. Disregarding min maxing, lets say you go with only a Templar.

That Templar you may have a stamina, magicka, health, or mixed build. That's 4 slots so far.

Further in each of those 4 slots, magicka for example you can further build out a dps, tank or healer.
So we have a Magicka Templar, who is a dps, tank or healer. An additional 2 slots there for Templar build.

Next we have 6 weapons. That same Magicka Templar may have two weapon sets. So at minimum lets say we have the same Magicka Templar, who has is a pure mage (destro and resto staff), battle mage (two handed and S&B), a Mage Archer (bow and dual wield). These count as only 2 additional slots as well.

Next we can further build this same Magicka Templar using gear, light, heavy or medium. However lets ignore this as it can be argued that the classes above are dependent on the type of gear yo build as well as the weapon. Similarly lets ignore race as well, even tho many people like to have 1 class as multiple different races.

So we have for a Magicka Templar alone a total of 8 character slots minimum. There are 6 classes in eso (ignoring werewolf and vampires as possible classes), 6 x 8 = 48 character slots minimum.

As a player I would thus like a minimum of 48 character slots minimum, even if we have to buy the additional slots.

ShawnLaRock

Crap. Luckily I saved my last one to experience the new tutorial, then I will have to rethink how I proceed after that. Pretty lame paying 60 bucks and none of the perks received in the past.

S.

sentientomega

Across live and the PTS, I have made over 160 characters, so that's 36 on live (18 on each), 124 waiting to be made, so I'd be happy with 80 slots per server.

Taleof2Cities

xhaven wrote: »

As a player I would thus like a minimum of 48 character slots minimum, even if we have to buy the additional slots.

Then you buy additional accounts like any other ESO player with multiple accounts.

Pretty simple.

sentientomega

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

xhaven wrote: »

As a player I would thus like a minimum of 48 character slots minimum, even if we have to buy the additional slots.

Then you buy additional accounts like any other ESO player with multiple accounts.

Pretty simple.

We shouldn't have to resort to this, other games aren't so slot-stingy.

Tempest

why do you need so many characters?

Taleof2Cities

sentientomega wrote: »

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

xhaven wrote: »

As a player I would thus like a minimum of 48 character slots minimum, even if we have to buy the additional slots.

Then you buy additional accounts like any other ESO player with multiple accounts.

Pretty simple.

We shouldn't have to resort to this, other games aren't so slot-stingy.

This is ESO.

It's not one of those "other games."

Daemons_Bane

xhaven wrote: »

BRCOURTN wrote: »

I guess they think 3 per class is enough

Then zos needs to rethink that stance.
In ESO there are many different builds you can have. Disregarding min maxing, lets say you go with only a Templar.

That Templar you may have a stamina, magicka, health, or mixed build. That's 4 slots so far.

Further in each of those 4 slots, magicka for example you can further build out a dps, tank or healer.
So we have a Magicka Templar, who is a dps, tank or healer. An additional 2 slots there for Templar build.

Next we have 6 weapons. That same Magicka Templar may have two weapon sets. So at minimum lets say we have the same Magicka Templar, who has is a pure mage (destro and resto staff), battle mage (two handed and S&B), a Mage Archer (bow and dual wield). These count as only 2 additional slots as well.

Next we can further build this same Magicka Templar using gear, light, heavy or medium. However lets ignore this as it can be argued that the classes above are dependent on the type of gear yo build as well as the weapon. Similarly lets ignore race as well, even tho many people like to have 1 class as multiple different races.

So we have for a Magicka Templar alone a total of 8 character slots minimum. There are 6 classes in eso (ignoring werewolf and vampires as possible classes), 6 x 8 = 48 character slots minimum.

As a player I would thus like a minimum of 48 character slots minimum, even if we have to buy the additional slots.

Or.. you could use the system that lets you reset skills, morphs, stats and cp.. Instead of demanding more slots, use the systems in place already.. you don't need several slots for the same character, just because he wants to change stats/weapons

shaielzafine

Hi my name is Shaiel and I am an altaholic. I'm here for the meeting with other people that have too many characters. I just want to suggest ZOS giving us class change tokens. I guess they would make more money selling the skill lines or skyshards the other way though. I've totally paid for those. I would also pay for level 50 boosts so I don't have to find a friend to skyreach me and then we watch Netflix for hours. Just take my money zos and add an instant level 50 booster like other MMOs do, doesn't matter if we have the getting to 50 achievement or not.

Also another suggestion, I know it is 99.9% impossible to happen on ESO, but on FF14 we can be all the classes with the one character and they all share the achievements on that one character. You can still roll alts but there's not much point other than role-play, since when a new class drops you just equip the new weapon for that.

Hotdog_23

I want 6 for each class, 36 total and no I should not have to get a second account just to be able to play all the combinations I want to play.

1 PVE Stamina
2 PVE Magic
3 PVE Healer
4 PVE Tank
5 PVP stamina
6 PVP Magic

kargen27

I would like the option to take an existing character through the new tutorial. Might be nice if taking the wagon from Wayrest (or whatever other foul alliance city you might want to start in) took a player to the tutorial instead of the starting wayshrine and for players that wanted to skip tutorial they would have a different first path to the zone.