richo262 wrote: »

zvavi wrote: »

vestahls wrote: »

ZOS would probably implement something like this eventually, if they can monetise it

They can. Easily. Add another slot in character select near the outfit called "soul slots"
It will work like this:
when you get a new soul slot you have all your skill points, attributes and champion points there on 0 and you can allocate them however you wish.
You can swap while out combat.
You can pay gold to reset it entirely and move it to another character.
You can bind equipment to a specific soul slot, auto equipping it if it is in your inventory when you swap to that soul slot.

Give 1 free soul token per account for people to use.

But most importantly, before monetising it.... fix the game &£#&£&#&!!!

The only draw back they may have with a 'soul' token, is for every slot you add diminishes the value of a character slot, because alt characters are merely just builds really.

What they could do is make it possible to merge 2 characters. IE a DK Nord and a DK Orc merge, you pick the primary and the secondary merges, achievements, skill points, lore books, XP in trees, quests (primary takes precedence if there is a decision conflict in a quest). This could also introduce funerals for RP or for people attached to the character they chose to sacrifice. The player loses a character slot (but if they delete the character they are left with they get 2 slots back).

The end result is
1 Character with
2 sets of racials to choose from
2 sets of attributes
2 sets of skills (morphs are now swappable on the fly)
2 sets of CP
2 equipped inventory load outs
Increased inventory space (to make up for losing an entire character inventory)

As there are 18 slots and 6 classes, that is 3 slots per class, so you should be able to add a 3rd character to increase that to 3.

Furthermore, outfit slots can now be useful, outfit slots are renamed to loadout slots. You can configure a loadout slot to simply change the appearance (what we have already) or simply change the loadout or change both appearance and loadout.

If this was the case, I would buy all character slots, and I'd buy a lot of 'loadout' slots. I'd then reduce my character list to 6 characters and proceed to make a Stam build, Mag build, Heal build, Tank build, Overworld build PVP build and possibly a vMA build on all 6 of my characters. I would aim for quality over quantity. I have 10 characters and 4 are mostly mules.

The only drawback I could see ZOS having with this would be it reduces the importance of research and horse feeding if people just make an alt to merge it with their main, so perhaps have a requirement that 1 of the characters needs to have completed all research and horse feed, and what you are left with is whatever the other character needed to do.

For instance if Main has 60/60/60 on horse feed, but the alt has 30/60/20 the end result merged character would be on 30/60/20 and need to complete to 60/60/60 if they wanted to add a 3rd, which would also reset it to whatever the 3rd is.

Downside for the player is, having 18 crafter makes a lot of $$, having only 6 makes less. So, firstly this process should only be optional, but also if you merge 2 characters you have a 50% chance of a double drop on daily writs, having 3 merged character results in a double drop on writs. That is still the crafting of 6 = 12, still less than 18, but it isn't so penalizing.

So potential for monetisation for ZOS
Character slots
Outfit (Loadout) slots
Horse feed
Research timers

Given gold/crown gifting is a thing, I'm perfectly fine with that. The rest is just time. It also isn't that daunting because people that want to do it will just make all there characters at once and just start feeding and researching immediately, or buy feed. You could say, I'm undaunted.