Love the delete character limit, brilliant!

Xnemesis · July 2014

I created this thread awhile back and steve gave some good suggestions to help this come to fruition. Its kinda nice to know that the devs were not above themselves to take a players suggestion.

This is the original thread
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/97570/character-creation-delay-to-help-botting/p1

Fairydragon3 · July 2014

steveb16_ESO46 wrote: »

This fix was suggested months ago by me among others. It was an obvious first step to dealing with bots.

Thank you very much sir

Xnemesis wrote: »

I created this thread awhile back and steve gave some good suggestions to help this come to fruition. Its kinda nice to know that the devs were not above themselves to take a players suggestion.

This is the original thread
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/97570/character-creation-delay-to-help-botting/p1

you too

Xnemesis · July 2014

Fairydragon3 wrote: »

steveb16_ESO46 wrote: »

This fix was suggested months ago by me among others. It was an obvious first step to dealing with bots.

Thank you very much sir

Me and @steveb16_ESO46 will gladly accept any donations :P

i am just glad it got done and the bots for the most part are gone.

Xnemesis · July 2014

I had no idea that this was going to help the mail spam issue. TBH I was just aiming at taking down the disposable once and done bots forming wayshrine trains.... so +1 to us!

Mescalamba · July 2014

forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/99685/how-to-deal-with-bots-fan-made-suggestion

Yea.. brilliant idea.

On the topic Im of course very happy they did it.

Lodestar · July 2014

Sakiri wrote: »

I haven't had mail spam in days.

It comes in spurts. A delete limit does nothing really.

Me neither, Was just thinking about this. Credit where it is due.

Carafina34 · July 2014

i pay monthly, I would like unlimited deletes. I constantly delete alts etc and i find my toons look diff in game than on toon creator screen due to the funny lighting

Hypertionb14_ESO · July 2014

there should be a creation limitation too. and both should have been in the game since release...

Tremulous · July 2014

Sakiri wrote: »

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<div class="QuoteAuthor"><a href="/profile/2934361/Sharee">Sharee</a> said:</div>
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<div class="QuoteAuthor"><a href="/profile/241841/Sakiri">Sakiri</a> wrote: <a href="/discussion/comment/1039321#Comment_1039321" class="QuoteLink"><span class="ArrowLink">»</span></a></div>
<div class="QuoteText">Theyll just get more accounts.....</div>
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There is a difference between being able to run a quest on one account 1000 times, and getting 1000 accounts to run the quest once on each.</div>
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Not really.

Theyre the professionals at making rmt work.

The difference is 1 account x $50 = $50 vs. 1000 accounts x $50 = 50,000

daneyulebub17_ESO · July 2014

Carafina34 wrote: »

i pay monthly, I would like unlimited deletes. I constantly delete alts etc and i find my toons look diff in game than on toon creator screen due to the funny lighting

Crap-- ZoS isn't going to want to annoy one of the special players who pay monthly!

They better rethink this strategy pronto!

Slaunyeh · July 2014

I guess I'll have to petition CS to delete my characters, if they don't trust me to do it myself. No skin off my nose!

theyancey · July 2014

Yes it is brilliant. It has gone a long way towards getting rid of the bots and spammers.

helzehen · July 2014

Actually a great idea, wow.

coryevans_3b14_ESO · July 2014

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

there should be a creation limitation too. and both should have been in the game since release...

Another unhappy d'bag that will say this about things added to the game years from now "should have been there at launch" DERRRRRRP!!!

Nestor · July 2014

coryevans_3b14_ESO wrote: »

Another unhappy d'bag that will say this about things added to the game years from now "should have been there at launch" DERRRRRRP!!!

I have not seen a spam email in a long time. Plus, I don't see the spam in Zone Chat anymore either. Just mostly WTS or WTB or people looking for help with an area, or just chatting, just like it should be. Of course I have Yells filtered so that might be it too.

What are Yells anyway?

Nox_Aeterna · July 2014

I find this annoying more than anything. The only reason this is not an issue to me now , is because my chars are mostly already made.

Back when i first started day one , i created 8 chars to hold names , then i would delet one of them to experiment on customization and so on , im quite sure i deleted over 20 times just on the first day creating and testing. All in one slot while my names were safe in the others.

If i started the game now , it would take me a week to get one char going.

Tandor · July 2014

Hypertionb14_ESO wrote: »

there should be a creation limitation too.

With so few slots you just need to limit character deletion or creation, it doesn't matter which. If you do one you don't need the other.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO · July 2014

It seems like /yell travels a bit further than /say, and defaults to red text. I have not turned it off, but I have yet to see a single /yell that was useful. Some are funny, though, like the RP one yesterday in a bank:
/yell OW!
/say Kindly keep your iron boots off this one's tail.

Awdwyn · July 2014

poodlemasterb16_ESO wrote: »

Sakiri wrote: »

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<div class="QuoteAuthor"><a href="/profile/2934361/Sharee">Sharee</a> said:</div>
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<div class="QuoteAuthor"><a href="/profile/241841/Sakiri">Sakiri</a> wrote: <a href="/discussion/comment/1039321#Comment_1039321" class="QuoteLink"><span class="ArrowLink">»</span></a></div>
<div class="QuoteText">Theyll just get more accounts.....</div>
</blockquote>
<br />
There is a difference between being able to run a quest on one account 1000 times, and getting 1000 accounts to run the quest once on each.</div>
</blockquote>

Not really.

Theyre the professionals at making rmt work.

You don't seem to get that HTML is not gonna fly inside the comments. To the point, after quite a few threads, that I wonder what you think you are up too.

I use it for web sites, but what do I know?

The HTML in the quote is a flaw in the mobile site. I've seen it crop up a number of times when people using a mobile device reply to a comment. Nothing to do with the poster.

Pallmor · July 2014

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

Frankly, I haven't even seen any bots in a while, not even in Coldharbour (which seems pretty dead, NA side). No problem grabbing nodes there. The closest I've seen since a bot fest in a lowbie public dungeon a month or so ago, was some multiboxer farming stuff in Reaper's March (and as far as I know, multiboxing is allowed? He wasn't interfering with anyone, anyway; if anything, he was clearing the way for others questing, lol.) Never saw heads sticking up out of the ground, unless they're better at tunneling now.

Last mail spam was last week, and was infrequent anyway.

I haven't seen any for a while now either (knock wood). Used to see them all the time. And spam was all over the zone chat.

Vahrokh · July 2014

Rhass wrote: »

Better late than never. Nothing to say bots won't attempt to return in large numbers again when expansions and the such eventually are released.

I envy you for being so optimistic.

OrangeTheCat · July 2014

[snip] if not outright claim, the credit for the character deletion limit, it was a clever approach. Claiming "it should have been in at release or shortly thereafter" falls under the 20-20 hindsight rule.

Feel free to get the last word in, if you must.
[edited for baiting]

rjlowdenb16_ESO · August 2014

For some of us who create alts and don't like the look of them then delete and recreate and repeat, it gets tedious. We need an in-game appearance modifier.

wolfydog · September 2014

This is great for you guys who might have your character made already, [snip] Im playing 14.99 and I cant even make my characters how I want them.
[edited for baiting]

Venereous44 · September 2014

wolfydog wrote: »

This is great for you guys who might have your character made already, [snip] Im playing 14.99 and I cant even make my characters how I want them.

Quit hitting save before you're done. Viola!
[edited to remove quote]

Mograineb16_ESO · September 2014

pong wrote: »

they should've made it 1 delete per 24hrs

Thats how it works right now, after you delete 3 characters you dont get a new delete until 24 hours later, and then they can only delete 1 per day.

Nerouyn · October 2014

wolfydog wrote: »

This is great for you guys who might have your character made already, [snip] Im playing 14.99 and I cant even make my characters how I want them.

Agreed.

It really is great that they've found an effective means of preventing spam but it can make a new player's experience really bad. There can be big differences - especially with color - between the character creator and the game world.

Since there's no way to change your appearance after creation if you're not 100% happy with what you see in the game world, you have to wait a day before you can try again.

It's what you absolutely don't want a subscription game to be - providing no satisfaction and lots of frustration in those vital first 30 days.
[edited to remove quote]

Gillysan · October 2014

Deal with it and I'm surprised people act like this is a new concept. Lot's of games have this exact thing and have had it for years. Maybe 10 years.

Pendrillion · October 2014

Time for facescuplter... I'd say... Other than that... Glad we can Dye armor.

McLukos · October 2014

I miss bot mail...when I would log on it always made me think I had a friend out there .... somewhere...