Yet another OP thinks the game should be designed according to how THEY think players should play.

The amount of time involved in acquiring CP is outrageous, now I might consider this OK IF and ONLY IF they also had Class change tokens. However, to start out a new character and spend weeks/months to be able to wear the gear that your main wears, it would prohibit most players from ever running an Alt. ZOS makes money off of players playing the game and sticking around, they would not create a system that penalizes players and drives them from the game. I've often thought it would be OK to withhold CP access until level 50, and then allow account-bound CP to kick in... but most players don't even want that. However, now with One Tamriel launch, CP's are very valuable from the start, unlike making you super OP prior to One Tamriel.

Furthermore, OP, WHY do you worry so much about how other players are playing? What do you care whether they want to utilize CP from the very start of a new character or not?!?

Also note how most players that want to switch from console to PC or vice versa have stated the MAIN reason they won't do it is because they'd have to re-grind CPs.

Grinding to VR16 to each character was madness now saying we gotta get to cp600 on each character is almost as insane as Sheogorath himself.

The same as paragon levels in Diablo 3 dude, ppl roll what not ... the grind is not needed from 0 and should be rewarded.

Achievements should be carried over too

I have spent over 2 years getting my CP up to 0ver 700.

I feel if you have invested that much time and energy into a toon then every new toon I make should have that CP available to them as I have already put it the time and grind.

I would not spend another year or more leveling up a new toon to 600 CP

I believe they should only affect Lv50 characters. So Lv1-49 CP is disabled. But when any char on your account reaches 50, they get their ability to make use of CP. It being account wide is fine, I just dont think pre Lv50 chars should be able to use it.

At first I thought it was the most ridiculous idea ever. Once CP was on live and I realized it was 850k EXP per CP, I no longer thought it was ridiculous.

I could not imagine having to grind to CP cap on all 10 of my characters. I'd most likely quit, or all but one character would be collecting dust.

This is literally the core around which CP is built. It is a replacement for the previous per character progression system. Asking if it should be account wide is like asking if swords should deal damage before you add a glyph or poison.

I think that you should have the option, in case you REALLY want to start again, but yes. Levelling isn't really that fun the second time....

I don't think I would have alts if we didn't. Took me forever to get to 590 and I'm still not in cp cap

I personally think that we should not be able to use them until we reach level 50 though.

This all comes down to how you play the game: If you play it like a rpg (skyrim for instance), than you expect each slot to be a seperate save. However, if you play it like an mmo, you want to be able to switch between characters based on what your group needs, or to increase the size of your overall collection (achievements, mounts, costumes gear etc), you want to have a account progress models, otherwise helping your groupmates means sacrificing your own game.

Since I primarily play eso as an mmo, I voted yes

I think CP should definitely carry over!
I would rather grind a new character from 1 to 50 than grind 600CP all over again.

They made a system of nearly eternal grind. The least they could have done was making it account wide, which thankfully they had the good sense to do. So yes, they absolutely have to carry over to new characters.

I would be okay with their usage being locked until you got to lvl 50 on that character, since the leveling process is even more trivial with CP, but that's as far as I think it should go, and this isn't something necessary - I just wait until I get to 50 to apply them on my characters, no need to harm other people because I prefer to not use CP on low level characters.

You could do something similar. Every time you make a new character, do not use CP on them until they get to 50. Then, when they get to 50, only use the CPs you get on that particular character.

Yes. Why? Because the majority of people who actually spend money on the game have jobs and dont want to spend years to achieve what everyone else achieves in a few months. If you want the game to live, then you have to cater to those that actually spend money. And Im not talking about $160/yr for the sub. Im talking about those that buy all of the stuff from the crown store. XP pots, food, drink, cosmetics, all of the DLCs, and so on. You want them to play several characters so they will want to spend money to individualize those characters. And this is NOT about pay to win. So far, with the normal exception of DLCs, you dont have to buy anything to *win*.

There is already plenty of things that will take years to accomplish. Why make it harder on the people who keep the game running?