Number of character slots per server? Do we have to purchase slots?

[Konsumer]

Like the title says. I'm unsure what's happening here. On 3 servers I have nearly 3 dozen characters collectively.
So, is there a limit to how many characters can be transferred to one server, and, if there is, am I expected to buy character slots for going over the limit?

 

[rabidfox]

You'd see a checkbox where you pick which characters are active (up to the number of slots you own) and then you'd see the ones you didn't select as grayed out.

You'll initially get a big checklist of character names and you select as many characters as you have slots to be active. The rest will look like this after:

If you own every slot, you won't see the get now, they'll just be grayed out.

That's the result of multiple seasons worth of HC characters moved back to my main server on my 2nd account that's only a barebones setup.

 

[Konsumer]

You'd see a checkbox where you pick which characters are active (up to the number of slots you own) and then you'd see the ones you didn't select as grayed out.

That's the result of multiple seasons worth of HC characters moved back to my main server on my 2nd account that's only a barebones setup.

So basically you're saying yes. "(up to the number of slots you own)".
At the moment, character slot ownership crosses servers. If I have 20 slots available, it's on every server. Which means I can have 60 toons on 3 servers without going over my limit. In this hypothetical I'm expected to what? Buy 40 more slots when transferring them all to one 64 bit server?

 

[Konsumer]

So basically you're saying yes. "(up to the number of slots you own)".
At the moment, character slot ownership crosses servers. If I have 20 slots available, it's on every server. Which means I can 60 toons on 3 servers without going over my limit. In this hypothetical I'm expected to what? Buy 40 more slots when transferring them all to one 64 bit server?

I don't think that would be fair. I didn't ask to go anywhere.

 

[rabidfox]

So basically you're saying yes. "(up to the number of slots you own)".
At the moment, character slot ownership crosses servers. If I have 20 slots available, it's on every server. Which means I can 60 toons on 3 servers without going over my limit. In this hypothetical I'm expected to what? Buy 40 more slots when transferring them all to one 64 bit server?

To be fair, there will be 4 64-bit worlds, so you could still spread them out in the same way. I know some folks would still exceed that as we currently have more than 4 worlds, but just as an example; I'll exceed my limit if I move all mine to one world.

 

[Sarlona Raiding]

They did address this on the fridays at 4 livestream:

It sounds like we will have more characters slots on the 64 bit servers - whether the extra slots are pay/free and how many is unknown, but he did say it won't be enough for someone that has the max # of characters on every server. Tough choices will have to be made.

 

[stubby68]

I got 6 on a premium account on Coromyr. Had to pay for an extra.

EDIT:

Dam. just got boned with this week's sale.

 

[EvanBanning]

Cormyr is showing 44 slots for me, which is what I have everywhere. I'll be consolidating and deleting some mules. So that'll be fun.

 

[Jasparius]

Cormyr is showing 44 slots for me, which is what I have everywhere. I'll be consolidating and deleting some mules. So that'll be fun.

So you will have 176 slots across the 64 bit servers.

Are some people thinking they should be able to move all toons on all servers to a single new server? For free ?

 

[Konsumer]

So you will have 176 slots across the 64 bit servers.

Are some people thinking they should be able to move all toons on all servers to a single new server? For free ?

Yea. That would be ideal. But... and I had this conversation earlier when devs started using the "free word". If I'm paying a subscription as I have for upwards of 2 decades, nothing I get is free. It might cost more, but it aint never free.

 

[Solarpower]

So you will have 176 slots across the 64 bit servers.

Are some people thinking they should be able to move all toons on all servers to a single new server? For free ?

Free or not, but now we've got ~400 slots and we are forced to squise everything in only ~200 ones.
Some people won't be pleased.

 

[Jasparius]

Free or not, but now we've got ~400 slots and we are forced to squise everything in only ~200 ones.
Some people won't be pleased.

Have people been petitioning for more character slots on the 64 bit servers?

Ive seen plenty of complaints but are there actual requests ?

 

[Drunken.dx]

I got 6 on a premium account on Coromyr. Had to pay for an extra.

EDIT:

Dam. just got boned with this week's sale.

Try asking support to refund you difference.

Years back I purchased adventure pack at full price and few days later it went on sale.

I contacted support and they refunded me difference in points

 

[erethizon1]

Given they are 75% off and there are only a maximum of 30 slots available for purchase in the store, I would buy as many slots as you have points available until you get the max slots available. Even if you have not purchased any slots it will cost less than 5000 points to buy all 30.

 

[erethizon1]

I got 6 on a premium account on Coromyr. Had to pay for an extra.

EDIT:

Dam. just got boned with this week's sale.

It could be worse. I had already purchased 29 of the 30 character slots before this week's sale. I'd finally given up that character slots would ever be on sale and started buying them at full price (and some with the choose your own discount sales that gave terrible discounts).

 

[mikarddo]

So basically you're saying yes. "(up to the number of slots you own)".
At the moment, character slot ownership crosses servers. If I have 20 slots available, it's on every server. Which means I can have 60 toons on 3 servers without going over my limit. In this hypothetical I'm expected to what? Buy 40 more slots when transferring them all to one 64 bit server?

Just transfer to 3 new servers. Why do you think you have to move all to 1 server?

 

[mikarddo]

Free or not, but now we've got ~400 slots and we are forced to squise everything in only ~200 ones.
Some people won't be pleased.

Going from 8 servers to 4 servers for the good of the game will have consequences. For the very few players with more than 200 characters that might hurt a bit but to be honest I see that more as a problem with having too many chars than an issue for SSG to work on.

 

[Jasparius]

Going from 8 servers to 4 servers for the good of the game will have consequences. For the very few players with more than 200 characters that might hurt a bit but to be honest I see that more as a problem with having too many chars than an issue for SSG to work on.

Consider it therapy for an unhealthy addiction.

 

[Greyhawk5]

Has the shared bank on each server problem been addressed yet? I have 4 accounts, 2 paid, 2 FTP, shared banks on each one on multiple servers.

How on earth is all this going to be consolidated? Am I going to lose 90% of my shared bank contents across servers? On some accounts I have 512 crafting slots....or am I just going to have to shrug my shoulders and accept most of this will get deleted or be unavailable.

 

[Jack Jarvis Esquire]

They stated on the Fridays at 4 cast yesterday that they will provide additional character slots to help (numbers tbc. LOTRO was 5 I believe), but as Mik has noted, that won't solve everything for folks with really high alts across multiple servers.