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Unread 08-18-2010, 03:57 PM   #1
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So I tried to swap over to my 'main' 90 brigand, and got the message that I could not because my account had too many characters.

I will likely cancel in a weeks time if this change isn't reverted.  Say what you will about the intended design of the game, but when something is 'broken' for years to the benefit of the paying customers you can't just change it without notice.   Other broken mechanics are actually celebrated, such as the ability to 'break out' of your house and build all over an entire zone.

It wasn't even part of the patch notes and its use has been widely known and used.  Even if I was going to be ok with this change, its important to know about it so I could have made sure the 7 characters listed were the ones I actually wanted.  Right now I have 2 dirges showing and neither of my level 90 characters are available for play.

I've actually supported all these new changes more than most with the UI, Spell changes, and even EQ2X, but this one is gamebreaking for me.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 03:59 PM   #2
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TheSpin wrote:

So I tried to swap over to my 'main' 90 brigand, and got the message that I could not because my account had too many characters.

I will likely cancel in a weeks time if this change isn't reverted.  Say what you will about the intended design of the game, but when something is 'broken' for years to the benefit of the paying customers you can't just change it without notice.   Other broken mechanics are actually celebrated, such as the ability to 'break out' of your house and build all over an entire zone.

It wasn't even part of the patch notes and its use has been widely known and used.  Even if I was going to be ok with this change, its important to know about it so I could have made sure the 7 characters listed were the ones I actually wanted.  Right now I have 2 dirges showing and neither of my level 90 characters are available for play.

I've actually supported all these new changes more than most with the UI, Spell changes, and even EQ2X, but this one is gamebreaking for me.

This.

We've also been asking for the ability to buy more character slots for years so to fix this without offering that as a ready option is terrible.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:03 PM   #3
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Not to be rude or anything, but when I downgraded, I deleted my extra characters as I was always afraid that it was an exploit...

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:04 PM   #4
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I would suggest doing a petition and asking for the characters you want most to be made available. Otherwise you could get Station Access for a month and order them yourself before going back to a standard subscription.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:04 PM   #5
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just delete one of your alts then, and get in compliance. quit complaining you dont get broken mechanics for free.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:07 PM   #6
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Not surprising in the least. With EQ2X coming out they had a big incentive to fix it. People that use bugs like that do so at their own risk, now you got stuck. You can probably either delete enough alts to get down to your limit, upgrade to SA if you really need them, or wait and hope that they put in more slots as a multi-month sub reward.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:08 PM   #7
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I appreciate that some of you never used this unintended feature. However, It doesn't mean it's not gamebreaking for me and probably many other players.
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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:11 PM   #8
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There is a reason character were not removed when downgrading from SA to standard.

If people have put time into leveling their characters they do not want to delete them. If they upgrade again, they want them to be there and not have to reroll. Apparantly SOE agrees to this or they would have forced a delete before.

This was not done to punish people or the would have fixed this ages ago, this was implemented for the new membership plans on Extended.

It should have been documented ahead of time so people had a chance to log to the characters they wanted to keep active.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:14 PM   #9
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Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:

Not surprising in the least. With EQ2X coming out they had a big incentive to fix it. People that use bugs like that do so at their own risk, now you got stuck. You can probably either delete enough alts to get down to your limit, upgrade to SA if you really need them, or wait and hope that they put in more slots as a multi-month sub reward.

While true,many of us were already well invested when they did the double station pass price increase that made it impractical. Given we've been asking for years for an option to do it legitly as it's been an open secret, they could have done the courtesy of either warning us or presenting an actual option that doesn't involve getting taken for an extra $15 a month when all you want to do is play EQ2.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:18 PM   #10
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So now it's gamebreaking to not be able to steal?  LOL!

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:30 PM   #11
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You can hand edit the ini file of the account to change what characters are available.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:50 PM   #12
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TheSpin wrote:

I appreciate that some of you never used this unintended feature. However, It doesn't mean it's not gamebreaking for me and probably many other players.

So what you are really saying is that you want the main benefit of having Station Access without having to actually pay for station access and if Sony does not acquiesce to your demand, this will become a "gamebreaking" issue for you.

I would say more but I am sure it would be against the forum rules so I will simply end with... /fail.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:54 PM   #13
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TheSpin wrote:

I appreciate that some of you never used this unintended feature. However, It doesn't mean it's not gamebreaking for me and probably many other players.

Btw... welcome to the party. Many of us feel that alot of these recent changes are "Gamebreaking" and we have legit complaints against it.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:55 PM   #14
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It was an exploit to have 12 characters on a 7 character account. Could be worse, they could have banned the offenders instead.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:57 PM   #15
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Taemien@Lucan DLere wrote:

It was an exploit to have 12 characters on a 7 character account. Could be worse, they could have banned the offenders instead.

It's an exploit to build all over Gfay because you have a house in Kelethin....   but go check out the Norrathian Homeshow.  At least I never posted screenies of my exploit.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 04:59 PM   #16
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TheSpin wrote:

I appreciate that some of you never used this unintended feature. However, It doesn't mean it's not gamebreaking for me and probably many other players.

Edit: It looks like this was something that was indeed condoned by SOE technical support staff, so I was wrong to call it an exploit. And unfortunately, they didn't give any warning that they were changing policy on this and would make those characters unavailable.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 05:03 PM   #17
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TheSpin wrote:

Taemien@Lucan DLere wrote:

It was an exploit to have 12 characters on a 7 character account. Could be worse, they could have banned the offenders instead.

It's an exploit to build all over Gfay because you have a house in Kelethin....   but go check out the Norrathian Homeshow.  At least I never posted screenies of my exploit.

Actually they've passively condoned doing that. They said while they have no plans to make it easy for folks to do, they are not going to be changing it so that people cannot do it either.

They never said they were going to let people keep having extra characters, not that I've ever seen.

It's also an issue of cost. A player building outside the normal home space adds no cost to them. A player with extra characters takes up more space and potentially removes one of the benefits of station access (for EQ2 Live) or the higher priced plans (for EQ2X, which is likely the real source of the nerf/fix).

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Unread 08-18-2010, 05:10 PM   #18
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TheSpin wrote:

Taemien@Lucan DLere wrote:

It was an exploit to have 12 characters on a 7 character account. Could be worse, they could have banned the offenders instead.

It's an exploit to build all over Gfay because you have a house in Kelethin....   but go check out the Norrathian Homeshow.  At least I never posted screenies of my exploit.

Yeah but guess what? In GU57, they can still build there. Yet you can no longer have more then 7 toons on a standard account. Definition of exploit: "Whatever SOE wants to call an exploit." SOE calls having more then 7 toons an exploit, thats the bottom line there.

Sorry you signed the EULA saying you agree. If you don't, the cancel button is over there. Send your voice that way, the forums are just going you get you rediculed.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 05:11 PM   #19
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Barx@Antonia Bayle wrote:

TheSpin wrote:

Taemien@Lucan DLere wrote:

It was an exploit to have 12 characters on a 7 character account. Could be worse, they could have banned the offenders instead.

It's an exploit to build all over Gfay because you have a house in Kelethin....   but go check out the Norrathian Homeshow.  At least I never posted screenies of my exploit.

Actually they've passively condoned doing that. They said while they have no plans to make it easy for folks to do, they are not going to be changing it so that people cannot do it either.

They never said they were going to let people keep having extra characters, not that I've ever seen.

It's also an issue of cost. A player building outside the normal home space adds no cost to them. A player with extra characters takes up more space and potentially removes one of the benefits of station access (for EQ2 Live) or the higher priced plans (for EQ2X, which is likely the real source of the nerf/fix).

This character thing was passively condoned in the past too.  Lookin for the post.

You can't tell me that building over an entire zone isn't a bigger drain than building only within your own home anyway.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 05:15 PM   #20
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TheSpin wrote:

This character thing was passively condoned in the past too.  Lookin for the post.

You can't tell me that building over an entire zone isn't a bigger drain than building only within your own home anyway.

It isn't. The geometry is already there, that's why people can build on it in the first place. It's not something new that the server has to run, it was there all along. The only difference in load might be on a player's client, not the server, simply because there aren't split rendering areas outside like there are in houses. In contrast, a new character is instantly more data on the database servers.

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Unread 08-18-2010, 05:24 PM   #21
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If data usage is the real issue... how the heck can they afford the eq2x servers where everyone in the world can make a character. Really I'm not here to debate the issue. I've said my piece, and will be another lost account to this GU if this remains.
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Unread 08-18-2010, 05:46 PM   #22
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If you dont pay for 12 toons, you can't use 12 toons. Not rocket science.
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Unread 08-18-2010, 05:54 PM   #23
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to the unnecessarily high and mighty posters that don't know what they are talking about

we were instructed to operate in this way with hidden characters after downgrading, it was never an explot

as posted here by sony staff over 2 years ago

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=419983

here is another posting by a SOE employee explaining how to camp to hidden characters

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/...topic_id=352537

this post is from 3 years ago

I have followed these instructions without any fear of "exploiting" sony, because I was not

what people in this game seem to forget is station access is not for additional character slots, that's just am additional bonus, station access is a higher priced sub that gives you access to all of SOE's online games.

this nonsense about "Stealing" is just that

sliping this change in without even making mention of it in the notes is not helpful, we could have at least deleted toons or reordered them if this change was unavoidable

please add some solutions to this thread, the INI file edit was a good attempt, it however does not change the message you get from the server when you try to log in

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Unread 08-18-2010, 06:14 PM   #24
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Thanks Luag. I knew there was some red names condoning this practice somewhere.
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Unread 08-18-2010, 06:16 PM   #25
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Did you try to delete some characters that show up in order to access your main?

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Will this affect toons you made when you had a station account and dropped to regular, or just ones made the way of the server crash bug?

Because I'm going to be rather [Removed for Content] off if I can't log my 90 jeweler in...

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Unread 08-18-2010, 06:18 PM   #27
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If you have a basic subscription, you'll only be able to access the first 7 toons on your character list.  I believe it bases the list on order when toons were last accessed, not when they were created.

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Vitriol@Splitpaw wrote:

Will this affect toons you made when you had a station account and dropped to regular, or just ones made the way of the server crash bug?

Because I'm going to be rather [Removed for Content] off if I can't log my 90 jeweler in...

From what I can tell, it doesn't matter if you ever had station access or not.  Your jewelers gone until this is changed or you delete another character.

Crismorn - I would have to delete a 74 character in order to bring up another.  Not really something I am willing to do.

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That's what I mean though, she's not shown on the most recent 7 list yet she's my original EQ2 character - I am not deleting 2 lvl 80+, 4 lvl 90 toons and my new project toon just to be able to access stuff on my account which I have been able to access since I opened my account.

This is an absolutely insane change for people who have extra toons in a genuine manner.

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Vitriol@Splitpaw wrote:

Will this affect toons you made when you had a station account and dropped to regular, or just ones made the way of the server crash bug?

Because I'm going to be rather [Removed for Content] off if I can't log my 90 jeweler in...

we can expect your next post to be filled with your namesake

I would be happy to transfer some of these "extra" characters to another account if they could make some method available to do it, as of now because I can't switch to them, I can't empty their mailboxes and brokers to make them transferable, can we please get some commentary by a red name here?

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