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<blockquote data-quote="Saracenus" data-source="post: 5375286" data-attributes="member: 47839">Actually the official explanation of the 20 character limit for CloudCB is that it prevents automated script attacks that would create character after character in a Denial of Service attack on the WotC servers. Source (Paulo, lead dev on the DDI tools before they yanked all official response to a single person WotCTrevor I believe).While this explanation is laughable at best, its the one they have provided. Having talked a friend who is a software developer, his basic take is this is to prevent folks from buying one login and having an entire group's PCs on that one account.That being said, after the hue and cry raise over the lack of an export function, that has been moved up on the dev priority list. Once that is in place you will be able to archive off any &quot;speculative&quot; PCs to a local .DnD4e file and just import it back in when you want to work on it again.WotC has also said they will review the 20 character limit at a future date (notice they didn't say soon).I am not going to crawl through the bazillion threads on the WotC forums to find links for all of this.My Two Coppers,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Saracenus, post: 5375286, member: 47839"] Actually the official explanation of the 20 character limit for CloudCB is that it prevents automated script attacks that would create character after character in a Denial of Service attack on the WotC servers. Source (Paulo, lead dev on the DDI tools before they yanked all official response to a single person WotCTrevor I believe). While this explanation is laughable at best, its the one they have provided. Having talked a friend who is a software developer, his basic take is this is to prevent folks from buying one login and having an entire group's PCs on that one account. That being said, after the hue and cry raise over the lack of an export function, that has been moved up on the dev priority list. Once that is in place you will be able to archive off any "speculative" PCs to a local .DnD4e file and just import it back in when you want to work on it again. WotC has also said they will review the 20 character limit at a future date (notice they didn't say soon). I am not going to crawl through the bazillion threads on the WotC forums to find links for all of this. My Two Coppers, [/QUOTE]

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