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| 20:43.24 | seebs | The need for More Character Slots is becoming ever more noticeable. |
| 20:53.52 | jmerlin | Wut |
| 21:04.40 | seebs | They're compressing NA into about half the number of shards again. |
| 21:05.23 | seebs | Which sounds crazy, given that I expect population is increasing with SL coming, but I have realized that there is compelling evidence that the new continents are functionally distinct shards, or at least, have their own distinct server resources. |
| 21:05.45 | seebs | So if the population ends up split, they can support that, and MMOs in general benefit from more active players on a shard. |
| 21:06.05 | seebs | But, it does create the issue that people who have a few characters on more than one shard may not be able to transfer all their characters to the shard their guild wants to move to. |
| 21:06.20 | seebs | I really have no idea why they only have 6 slots. |
| 21:09.05 | Imhothar | artificial limits are the fundamental principle of MMO games |
| 21:09.27 | seebs | It just seems like a silly limit; encouraging alts makes players happy, usually. |
| 21:09.36 | seebs | Although it works better if you have account-based social tools. |
| 21:09.51 | Imhothar | want more than 6 chars? buy a new account |
| 21:09.56 | Imhothar | simple math |
| 21:10.36 | seebs | Doesn't help when you already have the characters, and they're trializing some of the servers. |
| 21:10.47 | Imhothar | eve online limits you to 3 characters total, but only one of them can progress at a time even though the skill training is based on real time, not player action |
| 21:10.59 | Imhothar | and it works, some people have 5 accounts |
| 21:11.22 | jmerlin | At the cost of 80% of people who quit the game because it was stupid. |
| 21:11.38 | seebs | CoH did pretty well with ~48 slots per account per server. |
| 21:11.47 | jmerlin | There are games that only still exist because like 5 people in the world pay massive amounts of money in them. |
| 21:12.01 | jmerlin | In fact, that's how Zynga worked. |
| 21:12.10 | jmerlin | For a quick laugh, check their stock profile sometime. |
| 21:16.07 | Imhothar | must be all ghost at the annual fanfest then |
| 21:39.17 | ZorbaTHut | I maxed out at 4 Eve Online accounts, myself |
| 21:39.23 | ZorbaTHut | all paid for via ingame-purchased timecards :V |
| 21:46.33 | seebs | I made Jesse an appointment for physical therapy. It ended up being next Wednesday. When they confirmed that it was the 31st, I read it back as "2PM on halloween", and the receptionist said yes. So I asked whether special costumes were required, and they said no, whatever costume you like is fine. |