I would probably even say for a large majority of personal users out there 20 is probably more then enough...
I hardly consider myself a power user, but in the first week of having the CB I threw together roughly 30 different characters. Some were power builds, some were for groups I'm in, some were just theory-crafting, others were just neat themeatic ideas I came up with.
50 characters is hardly a stretch, but I wouldn't be surprised to see this turn into a DDO-like scenario where if you want to make more characters, you have to pay for more "slots". Which will wholly kill any desire I have to use their service(and why I don't play DDO either!), I don't mind microtrans when they're reasonable. But Microtrans for another 20 PDF-like files?
Wizards my friends, that's just silly.
I don't think they really NEED to support making your own army of characters though...
Again I hope export makes this a moot point.
I would have thought that 30 would be an appropriate maximum, as it allows someone to have a version of his character saved (or pre-prepared) for every level of his life from 1st to 30th.
Just power users get screwed for a while. Hopefully once they get the export function up and running this will be a non issue.
I have a question regarding the export function now that the storage space issue has come up. I know the plan is to provide export functionality in the future but with limited space available for storage what provisions will there be for re-importing or uploading an existing file back into the cloud so that it could be modified again?
Once a character is exported it will have to be deleted or nuked from the cloud in order to actually free up any space. Will there be a way to send that file back if you want to re-activate that character for use?
Mind you this would be allowing users to upload data directly into WOTC servers which could be a management nightmare. I wonder if this issue has been planned for?
Once a character is exported it will have to be deleted or nuked from the cloud in order to actually free up any space. Will there be a way to send that file back if you want to re-activate that character for use?
Mind you this would be allowing users to upload data directly into WOTC servers which could be a management nightmare. I wonder if this issue has been planned for?
What number would be good for a power user then? If not 20... 50? That just seems extremely high to me. And if you go towards 100 you are going start creating UI issues.
I would not want my programmers worrying about numbers that extreme when I am trying to make a widely used tool. They should instead spend the time making the export tool, something that most people could use and would also solve these issues.