Should we be allowed to have 4 accounts?

Jack of Shadows · Post by **Jack of Shadows** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:35 pm

I know housing is an issue, but there are so many templates in the game that 15 chars isn't enough. I'd like to have the option to make 5 more chars such as a remove trap, pure lockpicker, or a parry dexer, or a begger/tasteidr. I dunno, I think it'd be a fun option.

TheBreadMan · Post by **TheBreadMan** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:37 pm

one account per each year UOSA is up?:O

bushman · Post by **bushman** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:39 pm

would rather see the amount reduced to 1

Vhyx · Post by **Vhyx** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:21 pm

No. Three is enough.

chumbucket · Post by **chumbucket** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:55 pm

Three is already too many. I would like to see we keep the limit at three accounts, but find some way to limit us to using only one at a time.

Mikel123 · Post by **Mikel123** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:29 pm

Jack of Shadows wrote:I know housing is an issue, but there are so many templates in the game that 15 chars isn't enough. I'd like to have the option to make 5 more chars such as a remove trap, pure lockpicker, or a parry dexer, or a begger/tasteidr. I dunno, I think it'd be a fun option.

Do you really need a character that lockpicks, and another one that lockpicks AND removes traps?

Within the 3 account limit, I have:

Stealth/Tracking house looter
Swords dexer
Dex Archer
Bard Treasure Hunter
Swords Tank Mage
Crafter
Tamer
Fencing Dexer PK
Archer tank mage
Thief
Alchemist/Scribe/Poisoner
Mace/Parry Dexer
Mace Tank Mage PK
Roleplaying char
House-trapping stealth archer

And I'm sure I had some other characters along the way to ending up with those. I dunno; seemed sufficient to me.

Kander · Post by **Kander** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:38 pm

3 accts is all we need.

Blaise · Post by **Blaise** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:50 am

Personally in favor of one account each. The economy suffers when everyone has their own craftspersons.

Pirul · Post by **Pirul** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:53 am

Stat loss would be even more of a joke than it is now.

iamreallysquall · Post by **iamreallysquall** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:04 am

same situation i would kill for a fourth a account and so many people break the limit by using other peoples or proxys that it's sad that i can't legally have a fourth account

Brymstone666 · Post by **Brymstone666** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:27 am

Pirul wrote:Stat loss would be even more of a joke than it is now.

Agreed, as it is now stat loss isn't even a minor inconvenience.

iamreallysquall · Post by **iamreallysquall** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:32 am

thing is by our target date you could have as many accounts as you wanted to pay for, possibly on a cable connection depending where you are located.

chumbucket · Post by **chumbucket** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:11 pm

iamreallysquall wrote:thing is by our target date you could have as many accounts as you wanted to pay for, possibly on a cable connection depending where you are located.

But paying and old school computers/internet made a sort of soft cap on accounts. For most people, this meant one account, possibly two. No doubt there were some people that had more than two, but I would wager not many. Regardless, the point isn't really how many people did or could have back in the day. As I understand it, UOSA aims only for mechanical accuracy, i.e., the game itself functions as it did in the day. The number of accounts is not an era accuracy issue, and so it must be a how-good-is-it for the shard issue.

I'd say three accounts is already bad for the shard, but we can't force people to give up accounts. The only solutions are either keep things as they are or find a way to limit people to playing only one account at a time even though they can have three accounts.

I believe staff has already decided on the former, but I'd be interested in hearing if they would ever consider changes to this policy or not.

Jayrich · Post by **Jayrich** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:30 pm

please god no. is it not bad enough with the housing as it is.

can you imagine one person legally controlling 20 houses. imagine people who share an ip now they will get at least one more account then the rest so say legally 25 houses.

then you have people who would log at work and make 4 more accounts etc and one person is easily easily able to control 40-50 housing spots. i really wish housing was 1 house per account as it would really clear up the shard and seeing probably less then 300 unique ips log a day we would probably have about 1/3 the houses that are on the shard.

instead of around 3k + houses about 1k or so.

personally i own a tower + a brick which is holding a tower spot and a small that is a vendor. i feel its enough. but i dont mind people going nuts. but it does make it insanely stupid to place any bigger homes as many people own say a few keeps + castles and they are empty and the rest is placed with say 10 smalls to block everyone else

iamreallysquall · Post by **iamreallysquall** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:45 pm

my point is plenty of people circumvent this already not legally, for the very same reason you don't want people to have more accounts legally and its unfair to people with 15 slots in use that have ideas for other use full interesting out of the box templates. i am not asking for 5 slots for houses hell i would still be happy with account limit being played at 3. i had 3 accounts in era but i had i characters on both siege and chessy and some alts on like baja etc. i would gladly dump millions of gold for just another 5 slots with 0 house perks or limit increase on how many i can have logged in at once.

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