Comments on: Bring On the Alts – Er, Wait. Nope.

By: Lader

Lader — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:28:38 +0000

its not the most convenient, but I beleive you can have 21 char slots without buying station access

U.S live servers-7
Euro Live-7
Test-7

from what ive read all of these are separate and you can have 7 characters on each of these. I havent tried the euro stuff, but I have tried out test and you can get at least up to 14 hehe. If im wrong about the euro ones being separate, then sorry for the misleading info lol

By: martin

martin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:28:43 +0000

Must admit that when ive played eq2 and my son has as well hes always filled the slots up …As for station access ive been paying for it for maybe 2 years so i could play eq2/vg and he could play swg..but as the £ is so bad against the dollar its gone from £18 to £23/month so its way too much now ..so back to lotro as i bought the lifetime lol…

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:53:03 +0000

The character slots thing has been a big deal for me since day one, back when we got 4 slots. I like to play alts and experiment, and when you have a game with 24 classes and a big batch of races, you can run out of slots very quick.

It becomes a psychological drain. One of the ways I get back into a game when I have been away is often to roll a new character. But with EQ2 I am tapped out, I’ve done that a few times plus made some alts and have no slots available unless I go Station Access.

Now, some times Station Access is fine. In the fall when I want to go poke my nose into EQ as well, I’m good with it. But to pay double the subscription rate for one game, that is a mental line I cannot cross.

And EQ2 seems to be the only game with which I have this problem. Of course, a lot of it relates back to the early days when trade skills were all interdependent, so we made our own little trade skill cartel among three players, but now I hate to delete them because I have all those trade skills up in the 50-70 range.

Anyway, it is a burden I feel in EQ2 that I do not feel in WoW, EQ, or WAR.

By: Odius

Odius — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:31:35 +0000

I kept restarting on different servers, so my highest character is/was only 45, and I never ran into this problem, but I can see where it would be a pain if you like having all the crafter types. I really would have no reason to buy a station pass either.

By: Said

Said — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:17:51 +0000

I agree! Then you can play with me =)

Even though my highest level is 34, i could still use more slots. I really wish it was 10 per server or so. I have deleted all the other toons I had on verious servers to make more to play with Nostaliga. Made me sad to delete some of them they I had spent a decent amount of time on.

By: stargrace

stargrace — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:59:35 +0000

“Sure there are ways of obtaining more – if you subscribe to station access for example. This boosts your character count from 7 to 12″

You can’t just purchase base character slots. It comes in the station access deal.

By: Openedge1

Openedge1 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:53:33 +0000

Is it not true that you can purchase the extra slots though somehow? Station Pass maybe?
They need money, so anyway to make a buck I guess..

Bummer

By: Ardwulf

Ardwulf — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:46:04 +0000

Agreed totally, and I don’t even have an 80. This is one of the very few things about EQ2 that I think just wasn’t thought out very well. Possibly it made sense the way classes were originally set up, but it doesn’t now. It’s past time for SOE to pony up another four slots for everybody.