Solutions to Slot Limit

Some simple suggestions I've seen from other threads and liked:

1. No PvP slot. At main menu, there should be a choice to go to a PvP screen or your PvE characters. The PvP screen will allow you to store custom templates (PvP characters). This will free up your PvP slot.

2. Give bonus slots for collector editions. Duh. This way, Anet still controls how many slots they give out, but people who want to spend $20 on a slot, can do so.

People who've read my other posts might think I'm against extra slots... that's just not true. I would love to have more slots... right now, I've already "filled" up my two extra slots from Factions with characters I want, and still would like more.

ok, now i am confused.

i have a gwproph account with:
3 lvl 20 char
1 pvp char

i will have one gw fact account with (example)
3 lvl 20 char
1 pvp char

ok...
1. i link the accounts. i have these 8 slots that can access everything PLUS the 2 extra slots????
OR
2. as posted a couple posts above...do i only have 6 slots that can access everything?
is it possible that i lose 2 slots for the access to both chapters?
OR
3. just the 8 slots that access both chapters?

i keep reading about 6 slots, nobody is mentioning the 8 they purchased and if you do get 4 each, only the 2 bonus slots can access both chapters?

Although I'd never delete any of my current PvE characters, I agree that it would be fair if we had better success when aiming to salvage Runes from Armor.

OK if you Keep the two Games apart and treat them like 2 different games you will be able to have 4 slots for each.........If you link them and treat Factions like an expansion you will have a TOTAL of 6 slots (old 4 plus 2 new).

80% success rate is not good enough if your salvaging armor with superior vigor or superior absorption.

Solution: Make more expensive kits that the merchants sell that guarantee 100% when salvaging runes from customized armor.

Because, in most people's mind, not linking is not an option.

IMO, it's a false choice: Have 8 limited slots, or 6 unlimited ones. The two bonus slots don't make up for the lack of skills, choices, and expandability.

Once you decide to not merge, you will be forever trapped in one area. Those characters will become obsolete a year from now.

The game seem to be made for PvP as far as slots.

one game is 4 slots and both is 6. with 6 classes in the old one and 8 in the new one.

You can't PvE all of them. Without having more then one game. But then it's more work in PvP to unlock everything and to get rank.

/signed
and /signed again so ANet really pays attention.
THIS IS A GOOD IDEA! IT WILL STOP A LOT OF BITCHING AND COMPLAINING!

I think it's a good idea too. To link accounts. But what if you in to diffent guilds to actived more then one accont can you still link them?
We may never find the aswers.

Well, there could be advantages to having separate accounts (and by that, I mean two separate versions of linked Prophecy and Factions).

You could focus one account on Luxon, one on Kurzick.

You could have two Guilds.

Uh, I guess that's it.

Downside: two separate unlocks, trading among accounts would require two computers or running two GWs at once.

this is completely ridiculous!
you lose 2 slots! there is NO reason to penalize someone for owning 2 accounts!
so, i pay for 8 and combine the 2 accounts and get 6 - what a load of crap?!
am i looking at this wrong?
as far as i am concerned, i am a loyal customer. if you own a business and you have a repeat customer and they buy two sets of 4 dvd's (or whatever!) ... you only give them 6? i would assume that 2 BONUS SLOTS
WOULD BE JUST THAT, BONUS...this is a subtraction of 2 character slots when i paid for 8, i receive 6.
please tell me this is some sort of misinterpretation!?


bilbo

Not a misinterpretation.. its the truth.

do i have a valid point to think it is BS?
or do you guys/gals agree that we should be penalized in this fashion?
i am probably still gonna buy it but i am not sure if i will link accounts... kinda wait and see maybe.
what are all your plans/solutions?
bilbo

My simple solution to the slot limit is going to be this: Buy a second copy of guild wars and then merge it with Factions. 6 brand spankin new slots for me to enjoy. I just don't have the heart to erase wither one of my four exicsting characters. I just spent WAY too much time developing them.

Whats happening, in essence, is as follows.
You have 4 Propheciwes slots, you buy Factions (which also comes with 4 slots). If you keep the 2 seperate, then thats exactly what you get.
Choose to merge, and you still get your 4 prophecy slots, you still get 4 factions slots BUT each of these slots mirrors one of your prophecy guys, then you get a bonus 2 prophecies and a bonus 2 factions slot, with the same caveat in regard to character "mirrors".

ie.
Unmerged: Slot 1 (character A in proph), Slot 2 (character B in proph), Slot 3 (character C in proph), Slot 4 (character D in proph), Slot 5 (character E in factions), Slot 6 (character F in factions), Slot 7 (character G in factions), Slot 8 (character H in factions).

Merged: Slot 1 (character A in proph), Slot 2 (character B in proph), Slot 3 (character C in proph), Slot 4 (character D in proph), Slot 5 (character A in factions), Slot 6 (character B in factions), Slot 7 (character C in factions), Slot 8 (character D in factions), Slot 9 (character E in proph), Slot 10 (character F in proph), Slot 11 (character E in factions), Slot 12 (character F in factions).

In a very real sense, you dont lose 2 slots, rather you gain an extra 4; it just doesnt look like that right away because you forget you need a slot to put a character into Factions. Perhaps the only grievance is that merging means you *must* put all characters into both chapters.

Think of it as this way, by not merging you get 8 Slots of 50% of the Game. If you do merge you get 6 slots of 100% of the game. 6 Slots = 600% is better than 8 Slots = 400%

Yeah if changing primary was possible, whats the point of having more then 2 character slots? One for PvE and one for PvP... Not gunna happen.

Its a bad idea.

I agree changing Primaries would not be a good idea. But I think they need to accomodate the PvE player a little better than they are. I hate deleting characters that I worked so hard to create. Like the PvE free weekend, if a PvE player wanted to keep what he unlocked in PvP preview you needed to use a slot. I hate to delete a character. It was heartbreaking, this game is way biased to PvP when it comes to slots.

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Think of Car A. The car holds only 4 people. This car can go on a trip to Tyria and Tyria only.

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Think of Car B. Its the same basic model car as A. This car holds only 4 people. This car can go on a trip to Cantha and Cantha only because it cant run on Tyrian gasoline.

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Think of Car C. Its the same basic model car as car A and B. This car holds only 4 people. This car can go to either Tyria OR Cantha because it can run on Tyrian or Canthan gasoline. Plus they reconfigured the car to hold two more people, even though its still the same basic model.

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Now if you were car shopping. Would you choose a car that can do more? Or would be happy being limited to Tyria or Cantha.


Hmn...maybe i made it more confusing.

or driving the car is GW and rolling down the window is Factions. By having one copy of either you can keep all your fingers, but if you want to drive the car and roll down the window you have to lose a few fingers for the complete experience. o.O or you can simply not drive and roll the window down at the same time and keep all your fingers.