Post by Enrico Vivenzia on May 6, 2017 2:29:53 GMT
Taking inspiration from a topic in the cbox, I've been left to debate the reasoning for the character limts (4/5) in general. While I see the initial reasoning, not wanting to have an onslaught of inactive characters or profiles, I just feel like it bottlenecks too strictly on what themes and characters are able to explore on the site. If someone wanted to make one of every (sub)race option it wouldn't be possible and thats before counting different factions(hunters, government, university, etc.)
While I personally would like for no restrictions, I think moving the bar to something like 8 characters is lenient enough. Or at the very least, if you want to encourage member participation, then tie post counts or even the money system to unlocking “slots”. It acts as both a money sink to help regulate against the increased gold farm with multiple posts from multiple toons and it encourages some sort of commitment from the members.
While we're at it, a lot of the races are unbalanced as far as character representation which could be balanced out with some incentive upon creation. Maybe 10 extra bucks on profile acceptance or the like. For example, it was mentioned that hunters are grossly inactive at the moment in comparison to the amount of magi, which sort of makes the magi/hunter conflict stale—something that's a cornerstone of the site itself.
While I personally would like for no restrictions, I think moving the bar to something like 8 characters is lenient enough. Or at the very least, if you want to encourage member participation, then tie post counts or even the money system to unlocking “slots”. It acts as both a money sink to help regulate against the increased gold farm with multiple posts from multiple toons and it encourages some sort of commitment from the members.
While we're at it, a lot of the races are unbalanced as far as character representation which could be balanced out with some incentive upon creation. Maybe 10 extra bucks on profile acceptance or the like. For example, it was mentioned that hunters are grossly inactive at the moment in comparison to the amount of magi, which sort of makes the magi/hunter conflict stale—something that's a cornerstone of the site itself.
